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• $100 Billion Opportunity for Waste-To-Energy Companies in Developing World

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 613
  Here’s an opportunity to wisely spend some of the $100 billion that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton promised at Copenhagen to cut the greenhouse gases of developing nations by aiding in the development of renewable energy infrastructure to by-pass fossil fuel dependence. ( Previous story. ) Apparently one ...
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• What to Do With All That Stuff After Christmas

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 724
  Want to get a P.H.D. in what to do with your P.H.W.? That’s short for post holiday waste in case you didn’t know. While you may not have heard of the term (we kind of just made it up), we’re pretty sure you know what we’re talking about. The crumpled wads of giftwrap , the withering tree , that sweater from ...
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• How to Recycle Your Holiday Wrapping Paper

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 724
  Ah, the day after Christmas – if you’ve been greening your holiday thus far, why stop now? One of the simplest ways to keep up the great eco-work is to recycle that colorful mound of ripped-up wrapping paper left in the aftermath of Christmas day. If you need ideas, we’ve got 5 easy ways to reuse your ...
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• ‘Twas the Night Before (a Green) Christmas…

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 724
  ‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the prefab home “We’re not ready yet!” the whole family groaned; They’d been too busy working and studying and living Seems like only a second had passed since Thanksgiving! But they knew they still wanted a green holiday So they prepared to ...
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• Mission Viejo Tests New BigBelly Solar Powered Trash Compactors

  
  Green Options — Authority: 147
  Mission Viejo , California has become the latest in a string of cities to try out a new sustainable street-scale solar powered trash compactor called the BigBelly Solar Compactor .  In partnership with its waste hauler Waste Management , the city hopes to cut trash pickups from street containers by up to 80%, ...
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• A Crisp Winter Surprise: perfect for a merry waste-free Christmas

  
  The Rubbish Diet — Authority: 416
  The A-Z of materials at www.suffolkrecycling.org.uk Ho Ho Ho! Guess what Ive got in my Christmas stocking this year? Theres a big fat clue in the picture above, which is a screen-shot of the Suffolk Recycling Partnerships A-Z of materials that are collected by the council for recycling. I know I should be ...
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• TapeSwell: an Eco Alternative to Wrapping Paper

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 724
  While the holidays are definitely filled with great joy, year-end festivities can also have a slightly grimmer side. According to the Clean Air Council , an additional 5 million tons of waste is generated during the holidays in the US, four million tons of which is attributable to wrapping paper and shopping bags. ...
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• Queen Anne community competes for $50,000 by cutting garbage & waste at home

  
  Queen Anne View — Authority: 483
  Last month we reported that garbage collection company CleanScapes and Seattle Public Utilities were going to be launching a competition to see which Seattle neighborhood south of the Ship Canal could reduce their waste output the most. And now the competition is on! Five neighborhoods  “from Magnolia to ...
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• Top 7 Best Green iPhone Apps

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 724
  Electronics have a pretty nasty rep as polluters of the Earth, but they can actually be an environmentalist’s best friend when they’re used for good instead of evil . One of the best examples we can think of? The iPhone! From calculators to maps to rulers to books, the iPhone replaces so many things that we’d ...
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• Cushman & Wakefield Helps SF Highrise Attain Record-Setting LEED-Gold Certification

  
  Greener Buildings — Authority: 475
  With help from property management firm Cushman & Wakefield, the 38-story First Market Tower in San Francisco has earned LEED-Gold certification and become the largest existing building on the U.S. West Coast to receive such a rating from the U.S. Green Building Council.
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• Guest blog for Green Living Ottawa – Ottawa River consultation Dec. 15

  
  Green Living Ottawa — Authority: 106
  Written by guest blogger Denise Deby, who has worked in international and community development, and is currently trying to figure out how to connect the local with the global in her everyday life. There’s one more day to comment on the City of Ottawa’s proposed plan to deal with combined sewage ...
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• 5 Easy Tips to Green Your Holidays

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 724
  The holidays are a a time for festivities, fun and family, but the endless presents , lights and eating can lead to a heaping pile of waste! The good news is that it doesn’t have to be that way. From switching to energy efficient holiday lights to recycling your Christmas tree, check out our very own Ariel ...
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• Precious Lithium Squeezed Out of Geothermal Waste Water

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 724
  We need electric vehicles to curb our thirst for oil, but there’s a problem: EV’s generally use lots of lithium in their batteries, and that’s another limited resource. Now Simbol Mining thinks it has a partial solution in a new technique that extracts battery lithium from the wastewater of geothermal ...
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• Discarded Electronics Are Poisoning African Children!

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 724
  If you’ve ever wondered where that computer, refrigerator or TV you threw away ended up, you may not like the answer. A recent expose on ABC.com reveals the dirty secret behind electronic wastes : many products discarded by developed nations like Germany, the U.S. and England wind up in Africa, and they’re ...
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• 3M, Sanford, Pilot and More Showcase Their Latest Green Office Products

  
  Greener Buildings — Authority: 475
  Some of the biggest names in office products showed off new items in their array of greener goods at a recent mini expo in San Francisco.
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• VIDEO: Inhabitat Editors Chat With You!

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 724
  WHAT’S NEXT IN GREEN TECH? WHY IS GREEN SO EXPENSIVE? WHAT DOES THE FUTURE HOLD FOR INHABITAT? These are the questions that you asked us back in October, as we harnessed the power of the interwebs to bring you our first live webcast where our editors discussed the future of sustainability ! In case you ...
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• Drink Pouch Brigade

  
  The Green Phone Booth — Authority: 427
  Drink pouch ponderings from the Conscious Shopper I dont have much time to write a post tonight. I spent the evening up to my elbows in soapy suds tainted with the sweet smell of slightly fermented "juice"...Ive joined my sons schools drink pouch brigade . Rotating with three other mothers, I pick up the weeks ...
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• Incredible ‘Garbage City’ Rises Outside of Cairo

  
  INHABITAT — Authority: 724
  This unbelievable city piled high with trash is a real place called Garbage City , outside of Cairo in Egypt. It’s populated by a community of workers called Zabbaleen , who personally collect, sort, reuse, resell or otherwise repurpose Cairo’s waste . Recently several photographers have trained their cameras ...
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• Sex and Trash and Rock ‘n’ Roll: Waste Management Joins Live Nation in Recycling Sponsorship

  
  CleanTechnica — Authority: 613
  U.S. garbage behemoth Waste Management has teamed up with the world’s largest live music company, Live Nation , in what promises to be one of the most unusual sponsorships in the history of rock and roll . The new venture calls for Waste Management to be the official waste disposal and recycling sponsor ...
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• Oh Christmas Tree, Oh Christmas. Should you be real or plastic?

  
  The Green Phone Booth — Authority: 427
  Bleatings from EnviRambo. Paper or plastic? An easy question for a greenie to answer. Neither. You bring your own bags. Real or artificial? Umm.... umm... You cannot reuse a real tree, so essentially it is disposable. Disposable = bad. Artificial trees can be used over and ...
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