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'Garbage' Men: An Interview With 3/4 of Alt-Rock Royalty

Jon Chattman | Posted 05.29.2012

Read More: Duke Erikson, Wisconsin, Garbage Band, Butch Vig, Steve Marker, Shirley Manson, Garbage, Video, Entertainment News

It's hard to believe the last time Shirley Manson, Butch Vig, Steve Marker and Duke Erikson made music together, Dubya was in office and Justin Bieber was just learning geometry.

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Washington National Opera Preview At Kennedy Center Opera House: HuffPost DC Top 5 For May 23, 2012

The Huffington Post | Brandon Wetherbee | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Squeeze, Video, Evan Keeling, Critical Exposure, Scott White, Memorial Day Parade, Washington National Opera, Rock and Roll Spelling Bee, American City Diner, Garbage, Kennedy Center, DuClaw Brewing Company, DC News

1. Washington National Opera Season Preview Concert At Kennedy Center Opera House If pop music isn't your thing but still want to enjoy the finer sou...

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READ: Southern California's Garbage Mountain

Posted 04.30.2012

Read More: Garbology, Video, Trash Mountain, Landfills, Puente Hills Landfill, Edward Humes Garbology, Garbage Mountain, Green-Living, Garbology Book, American Garbage, Puente Hills Garbology, Edward Humes, Garbage, Green News

This is an excerpt from "Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash," an exploration of garbage and its place in America, by Edward Humes. The book i...

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WATCH: Garbage Releases First Music Video In Five Years

Spinner | Posted 04.03.2012

Read More: Video, Garbage Blood for Poppies, Garbage Not Your Kind of People, Blood for Poppies, Not Your Kind of People, Garbage Shirley Manson, Garbage, Entertainment News

Garbage fans rejoice! The alt-rock band is releasing their first music video in five years. Check out the live video stream above for a Q&A with t...

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National "2012 Green Cup Recycle Challenge" Encourages K-12 Students to Rethink Waste and Consume Less

Veronique Pittman | Posted 05.27.2012

Read More: Recycling Challenge, Over-Consumption, Green Schools, Sustainability Education, Zero Waste, Recycling, Trash, Reducing Waste, Lifecycle, Green Cup Challenge, Garbage, Education News

On April 2nd, thousands of students, in schools from Connecticut to California, will aim to "recycle right" for four weeks during the 2012 Green Cup Recycle Challenge.

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All That Glitters Ends Up on the Curb: Lessons From Zero Waste Families

Janice Harper | Posted 04.24.2012

Read More: Recycling, No Waste Family, Waste, Packaging, Madagascar, Zero Waste Home, Garbage, Zero Waste, Zero Waste Family, Green News

I once lived in a rainforest in Madagascar. When I asked where to dump the garbage, my new neighbors looked at each other with those faces that say, "Is she for real? What's a garbage?"

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A Kindness Mission for Garbage Collectors

Patience Salgado | Posted 03.24.2012

Read More: Kindness, Garbage, Community Gratitude, Garbage Collectors, Garbage Men, Garbage Collectors Gratitude, Good News News

Can you imagine if there was a wave of gratitude across an entire nation? Garbage collectors may get kicked off the top of that most thankless job list.

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Sanitation in Ghana: A Disaster or a Challenge?

Karen Curley | Posted 03.19.2012

Read More: Malaria, Ghana, Cholera, Garbage, Disease, Sanitation, Slidepollajax, World News

Accra is the capital of Ghana and is a modern city, yet there is garbage all over. There are many reasons for this.

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MTA's War On Trash Involves Removing Trash Cans

Posted 12.25.2011

Read More: New York Subway, Subway Trash, Mta, John Gaito, Ny News, Subway, Garbage, New York Garbage, New York News

If there's no place to dump your trash, will there be less of it? The MTA is hypothesizing this very idea in an effort to minimize the amount of t...

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A Burning Question: Should Waste-to-Energy Qualify as Renewable?

Robin Madel | Posted 10.18.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, New York Renewable Portfolio Standard, Rps, Waste to Energy, Convanta, Waste, Sustainable Energy, Emissions, Air Pollution, Green Energy, Garbage, New York News

When you think about renewable energy sources, what comes to mind? Solar panels or wind turbines, maybe even hydropower? You're probably not thinking about trash.

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Changing Climate: Deep Oceans Off Alaska Face Existential Threat

AlaskaDispatch.com | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Toxic Chemicals, Sewage, Marine Life, Carbon Emissions, Deep-Ocean, Waste, Science, Climate Change, Pollution, Global Warming, Garbage, Green News

If deep oceans covered an area only the size of the state of Alaska, then humans have so far explored in detail only about 2,400 square feet -- enough space to park seven or eight cars.

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FOR SALE: NYC's Garbage

Posted 10.02.2011

Read More: Recycling, Art, Buy Garbage, Nyc Garbage for Sale, Sculpture, NY Around Town, Nyc Garbage, Garbage, Video, New York News

"One man's garbage is another man's treasure. But New York City's garbage, well, that's art." This is artist Justin Gignac's prelude to his brilli...

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Eco Etiquette: 5 Tips For A Sustainable Move (VIDEO)

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 09.05.2011

Read More: Cardboard Box, Rent a Green Box, Green Advice, Landfill Waste, Green Move, Sustainable Move, Green Living, Disposable Plastics, Garbage, Recopack, Expandos, Eco Etiquette, Green News

Send all your eco-inquiries to Jennifer Grayson at eco.etiquette@gmail.com. Questions may be edited for length and clarity. I'm moving this summer. A...

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lucy walker trash

Posted 09.04.2011

Read More: Recycling, Toyota, Landfills, Lucy Walker, Green, Trash, Slidepollajax, Waste Land, Garbage, Green News

Director Lucy Walker spent months filming the stories of garbage pickers working at Rio de Janeiro's Jardim Gramacho, one of the world's largest landf...

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Pee-Yew! MTA Looking To Solve Trash Troubles

Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Rat Infestation, Thomas Prendergast, Ny News, New York Subway, Trash, New York City Transit, New York News, Mta, Mta-Garbage, Garbage, New York News

The MTA has had some trouble taking out the trash recently and Transit President Thomas Prendergast is fed up. Prendergast claims subway constructi...

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WATCH: Which Dog Broke Into The Trash?

Posted 07.31.2011

Read More: Video, Pets, Trash, Urlesque, Dog, Cute Animals, Cute/Ridiculous Animal Thing of the Day, Dogs, Garbage, Cute Animal Videos, Comedy News

We're faced with even more evidence in the case for dogs being horrible liars. Only this time, it's not a bad poker face that gives the guilty party a...

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See The World's Most Polluted Places

Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: World's Most Polluted Cities, World's Most Polluted Places, Earth Day 2011, Earth Day, Slidepollajax, Environment, Garbage, Global Warming, World News

The world's most polluted places in the world might come as a surprise to some. No sprawling, globally-renowned metropolis like Los Angeles or London ...

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Egypt Needs the E-Team

Mike Bonifer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: James Dean Conklin, Egypt, Sybille Culhane, Ucla, Middle East, Politics, Mike Bonifer, Garbage, Solar Circus, Michael Culhane, T. H. Culhane, Mubarek, Sustainability, Gamechangers, Uprising, Green News

It takes an E-Team to convert a community, to show how the twin levers of science and art can get the genie back in the bottle.

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Garbage Collection Set To Resume After Storm

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Garbage Collection, Sanitation Department, Garbage, Ny News, Sanitation, New York News

NEW YORK — New York City's sanitation department plans to resume collecting trash and recyclables after services were suspended because of last ...

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Eat Trash, Save the Planet

Maria Rodale | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Waste, Documentary, Food, Food Waste. Movie, Garbage, Joseph Kony, Green News

By guest blogger Jeremy Seifert After four years of nonprofit work, Jeremy recently cofounded the production company Compeller, focusing on documenta...

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Eat Healthier, Spend Less: How To Boil Your Garbage

The Sweet Beet | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Vegetable Stock, Slidepollajax, Compost, Garbage, Recipes, Stock, Food News

This is a "how-to" that covers two of the most common New Years resolutions: Eat Healthier and Spend Less. Food scraps(that might otherwise be thrown...

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WATCH: DOCUMENTARY: NY Artist Paints Rio De Janeiro's Garbage Pickers

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jardim Gramacho, Brooklyn, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, Vik Muniz, Los Angeles, Documentary, City of God, Film, Waste Land, Catadores, Garbage, Arts News

A Brooklyn artist visits the garbage dumps of Rio de Janeiro to paint the ragpickers. On the face of it, the project might seem to reek of exploitatio...

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New Orleans East Residents Oppose Garbage Processing Plant

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mayor Mitch Landrieu, Gas, Electricity, University of New Orleans, Sun Energy Group, Port of New Orleans, Dioxins, Congressman Joseph Cao, Pollution, Sierra Club, Garbage, Green News

The specter of garbage trucks exiting Interstate 10 and tearing past their homes to a plant that would vaporize city trash has residents of the Melia Subdivision in New Orleans East worried.

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The Business of Water, the Business of Trash

Jennifer Schwab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Landfills, Cnbc, Colorado River, Tap Water, Documentaries, Water Conservation, Environmental Documentaries, Cnbc Documentaries, Garbage, Green News

CNBC has created two environmentally relevant docu-reports covering the worldwide water shortage and trash/landfill problems that are so good you won't mind missing everything else.

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Trash Threatens To Block Three Gorges Gates In China

AP | TINI TRAN | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Miter Gate, Three Gorges Dam, Three Gorges, Environment, Trash, Flooding, China, Yangtze River, Garbage, Litter, World News

BEIJING — Intense flooding has swept thick layers of garbage down the Yangtze River that are threatening to block the gates of the Three Gorges ...

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