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• in Green
  Waste Reduction Methods Can Adapt Climate Change Effects Scientifically
  Production of biogas and organic fertilisers from organic household waste forms the best method for adapting climate change effects.
  by rajeevan2007 / on Nov 21, 2009

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “waste reduction”

 

• Global CO2 Emissions Reach Record-High, Driven by Fossil Fuel Use in Rapidly Industrializing Nations

  
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  Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions continue to rise despite best efforts to date to curtail them. CO2 emissions reached a record-high 31.6 gigatonnes (Gt) in 2011, according to preliminary estimates from the International Energy Agency, a 1 Gt, 3.2% year-over-year increase. Increasing fossil fuel use, driven by ...
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• LA becomes largest US city to ban plastic bags

  
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  Los Angeles joins San Francisco and Santa Cruz -- along with Mexico City, Italy and others -- to prohibit stores from distributing disposable plastic bags.
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• Massachusetts planning food waste ban for businesses

  
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  Massachusetts businesses, including hotels, will likely face new regulations in mid-2014 banning food waste as the state grapples with limited disposal capacity.
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• Cleantech News Roundup (Solar, Wind, EV, Geothermal, Biogas, Hydro, & More)

  
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    Some more cleantech news from around the interwebs: –>Page 1: Solar News (you are here) –>Page 2: Wind News –>Page 3: Transportation & Energy Efficiency News –>Page 4: Biogas, Geothermal, & Hydro News –>Page 5: Policy & Other News Solar Kyocera Solar to supply 34 MW ...
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• 5 Top Sustainable Building Concepts (with Pics)

  
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    Sustainable building or green building design isn’t something we cover a lot here on CleanTechnica, even though many of the components of sustainable building are cleantech products, so this nice summary of 5 top sustainable building concepts from around the world seemed like a perfect article to repost from ...
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• Textbooks.org Promotes Book Recycling, Waste-Reduction in Awareness Month

  
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  College students concerned with minimizing waste and pollution should consider recycling their course textbooks. Gainesville, Florida (PRWEB) April 30, 2012 Paper from decomposing books in landfills emits methane, a greenhouse gas more caustic to the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. This problem is exacerbated by ...
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• Help a Reader Out — Short Survey

  
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    One of our readers recently reached out to me asking if I could help spread the news about a survey she’s conducting. It’s just a 7-question poll on topics such as recycling and alternative energy on college campuses. If you have a moment, help Ashley Halligan of  Software Advice  out by answering ...
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• Hydrogen — Tomorrow’s Biofuel?

  
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    Questions swirl around the idea of bioethanol as an alternative to gasoline for powering transport, but researchers from the University of Birmingham have started creating clean hydrogen from food waste, an idea that could revolutionise the bioenergy industry. A look at Brazil — the world’s most intensive user ...
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• Intel slashes emissions, but misses water and waste targets

  
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  Intel soundly beat its greenhouse-gas emissions goals, but missed several other targets: It consumes more water and creates more chemical waste than previously, instead of less. Are its new goals more realistic?
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• Florida County Commissions Waste-To-Energy Plant

  
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  The Solid Waste Authority of Palm Beach County (Florida) has agreed to have Babcock & Wilcox (B&W;) Co. build a waste-to-energy (WTE) plant in West Palm Beach. read more
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• The down side of recycling, or, what could be better?

  
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  Google “recycling bad” and you turn up numerous articles. I remember years ago, when recycling was first becoming mainstream, that some environmentalists were outraged to learn that companies that made new objects from post-consumer waste contributed to air and water pollution. Well, of course. It’s a ...
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• Hershey Sweetens Stakeholder Engagement, Boosts Responsible Sourcing

  
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  Hershey’s is getting with the program, and its most recent CSR report is a step in the right direction on responsible sourcing and child labor.
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• Use Public & Private Dollars for Clean Energy, but Carefully, Say Stanford Scholars

  
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  In the fast-globalizing clean energy industry, the U.S. should press its advantage in engineering, high-value manufacturing, installation, and finance, writes Stanford researcher Jeffrey Ball. By Mark Golden The United States and other countries need to reform their support of clean energy for the environment ...
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• Report: Stronger EU CO2 Target Would Benefit Country that Blocked It, & Cost EU Citizens a Few Cups of Coffee on Average

  
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    Research released by Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) at the end of last week noted that, on average , stronger EU policies would cost “no more than the equivalent of a few cups of coffee.” Furthermore, some countries, including the country that blocked this stronger target, would actually see a net ...
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• CO2 Emissions Increasing with Economic Recover — Not Good!

  
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  New Worldwatch Institute report stresses the urgent need for cuts in global greenhouse gas emissions. Although global emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) declined slightly in 2009, the beginnings of economic recovery led to an unprecedented emissions increase of 5.8 percent in 2010. In 2011, global atmospheric levels ...
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• Report: China Doing Most Global Warming Abatement, Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions to Peak in 2016, but Still Not Enough

  
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    The DB Climate Change Advisors has released its latest  Global Climate Change Policy Tracker report [PDF] , its fourth. The report has quite a bit of interesting info in it. Most important, from a global perspective, is that “ the best case global outlook ” based on potential current targets still leaves ...
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