Waste Management

5 Ways Colleges Are Getting Greener

The Huffington Post | Tyler Kingkade | Posted 05.07.2012

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It's not easy being green, but that's not stopping colleges that have promised to shrink their carbon footprints. Efforts to go green are often lin...

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NYC Takes the Garbage Out

Steven Cohen | Posted 03.18.2012

Read More: Sustainability, Mayor Michael Bloomberg, Waste Management, State of the City, Waste Management Nyc, Nyc Waste Management, New York City Waste, New York City Waste Management, Green News
Steven Cohen

New York City's leaders have run the numbers and understand that shipping garbage to distant landfills is not only bad for the planet; it's bad for the pocketbook.

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Using Trash to Help Secure America's Energy Future

Carl Rush | Posted 12.26.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Recycling, Waste-Based Energy, Clean Energy, Green Energy, National Energy Awareness Month, Waste Management, Green News
Carl Rush

We have an overly narrow view of what constitutes renewable energy. Solar and wind energy are without question part of the solution to our reliance on fossil fuel. But so is trash.

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Brief From Bonnaroo: Tennessee Trash

Lisa Kaas Boyle | Posted 09.17.2011

Read More: Waste Management, Trash, Eminem, Bioplastic, Bonnaroo, Wanda Jackson, Downcycling, Aunt Martha, Bonnaroo Music Festival, Tennessee Trash, Plastic Bottles, Clean Vibes, Hydration Stations, Reuse, Recycling, Recycle, Arcade Fire, Compost, Plastic, Tennessee, Reduce, The Black Keys, Rock the Earth, Loretta Lynn, Plastic Pollution Coalition, Bonnaroo 2012, Green News
Lisa Kaas Boyle

Anyone who grew up in the 1970s in Tennessee can sing a bit of "Tennessee Trash," a comic and catchy PSA that was sponsored by the State Department of Transportation to discourage littering.

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How To 'Green' Your Business

Brett Caine | Posted 06.22.2011

Read More: Energy, Small Business America, Energy Efficiency, Small Business, Waste Management, Sustainability, Business Strategy, Entrepreneurship, Workplace Flexibility, Entrepreneur, Business News
Brett Caine

Sustainability is essential to helping today's companies achieve many of their major business priorities, including attracting and retaining great talent and reducing capital expenses.

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Green News Report: April 5, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 06.05.2011

Read More: Co2, Natural Disasters, Fracking, Epa, Clean Energy, Coal, Chernobyl, Radioactivity, Iaea, Climate Change Denial, Green Party, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, Fukushima, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Toxic Chemicals, Pennsylvania, Japan Earthquake, Sustainability, Natural Gas, Japan, BP Oil Spill, United Nations, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Green News Report, Nuclear, Pollution, Electricity, Fossil Fuels, Contamination, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Waste, Gop, Climate Change, Air Pollution, Global Warming Deniers, Bp, Subsidies, Energy Efficiency, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Waste Management, Green News, Hydraulic Fracturing, Toxic Waste, House of Representatives, Green Business, Don Blankenship, Tennessee, Deepwater Horizon, Paul Krugman, Farm Subsidies, Sewage, Massey Energy, Perchlorate, Bats, Utilities, Transocean, Executive Compensation, Upper Big Branch Mine, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Breaking:...

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Daley Scrambling To Privatize Recycling Before His Term Is Up

Posted 06.01.2011

Read More: Privatization, Chicago Recycling, Chicago Privatization, Mayor Daley Privatization, Illinois, Waste Management, Brackenbox, Mayor Daley, Chicago, Chicago News

One of the broad themes of the Daley administration has been a belief in private industry to handle typically government-run services. Selling control...

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Green News Report: March 31, 2011 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 05.31.2011

Read More: Co2, Fracking, United Nations, Epa, Renewable Energy, Regulation, Clean Energy, Nuclear, Green News Report, Pollution, Coal, Chernobyl, Electricity, Radioactivity, Germany, Fossil Fuels, Japan Nuclear Reactor, Contamination, California Air Resources Board, Gop, Climate Change, Climate Change Denial, Green Party, Global Warming Deniers, Air Pollution, Solar Power, Global Warming, Energy, California, Dolphins, Fukushima, Environmentalists, Environmentalism, Subsidies, Toxic Chemicals, Japan Earthquake, Water Pollution, BRAD BLOG, Green News, Sustainability, Endangered Species, Toxic Waste, Japan, Hydraulic Fracturing, China, Natural Disasters, Iaea, Joshua Tree, Genetically Modified Food, GMO Foods, Barack Obama, Pennsylvania, Natural Gas, BP Oil Spill, Airlines, Organic Farming, PG&E, Waste, Bp, Pacific Gas & Electric, Energy Efficiency, Monsanto, Waste Management, Tim Pawlenty, Smart Meter, National Parks, Green News
Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen

TWITTER: @GreenNewsReport. The 'GNR' is also now available on your cell phone via Stitcher Radio's mobile app!. IN TODAY'S RADIO REPORT: Obama's '...

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Ask Customers to Use Less of Your Product: The Big Heresy

Andrew Winston | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Clayton Christensen, Patty Calkins, Solid Ink, The Innovator's Dilemma, Kimberly Clark, Arizona State University, Printing, Waste-to-Energy-Plants, Disruptive Innovation, David Steiner, Idc, Waste Management, Ursula Burns, Xerox, Rochester, Sustainability, Managed Print Services, Green Recovery, Dow, Green News
Andrew Winston

Xerox and Waste Management are doing something mostly unheard of: they're working with customers to use less of their traditional product or service. That's a big shift in business as usual.

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POOP Founder on World Toilet Day

Deanna Neil | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Toilet Day, Sanitation, World Toilet Crisis, World Toilet Organization, Poop, Waste Management, Sanitation Crisis, Global Sanitation, World Toilet Day 2010, Green News
Deanna Neil

While poop can be funny, ecologically sound waste management and basic sanitation are no joke.

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A Rapture of Humus

Robert Koehler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recycling, Soil, Ecology, Circle of Life, Waste Management, Composting, Aversion, Humus, Politics News
Robert Koehler

Day after the election and, wow, there it was, a story in my local paper that cried out that the world was changing in a sensible direction. I simply ...

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Spill Waste Buried in Local Landfills But Not in Mississippi

Susan Buchanan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Recycling, Water Management, Bp, Oil Spill, Health, Waste Management, Environment, Oil, Toxic Waste, Gulf Coast, Green News
Susan Buchanan

New Orleans residents may be unaware that gulf spill waste is being stashed less than ten miles away in Avondale.

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Finding Parallels Between New York City and Mokattam, a Garbage Village in Cairo

Diana Mao | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Justice, Environmental Justice, Trash Disposal, Cairo, Egypt, Slums, Waste Management, Robot-Trash-Collector, Waste, Environment, Environmentalism, New York City-New York, Slum, Garbage, New York City, World News
Diana Mao

My experience has shown to me that even in a developed region like New York City, you will find traces of extreme economic inequality, just like in Cairo.

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We Need Garbage Equity and Improved Regulation of Toxins

Gavin Kearney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Regulation, Waste Management, Green News
Gavin Kearney

Communities of color and low-income communities throughout the U.S. are disproportionately burdened by waste facilities.

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Shoddy Disposal Work Mars Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup

AP | JAY REEVES | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gulf Oil Spill, Gulf Oil Spill Cleanup, Oil Disposal, Waste Management, Bp, BP PLC, Deepwater Horizon, Gulf State Park, Alabama, Florida, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Gulf Shores, Green News

ORANGE BEACH, Ala. — A leaky truck filled with oil-stained sand and absorbent boom soaked in crude pulls away from the beach, leaving tar balls ...

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Green is Garbage

Jonathan A. Schein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jonathan-a-Schein, Waste Management, Greenhouse Gases, Scheinmedia, Renewable Energy, Methane, University of New Hampshire, Metrogreenbusinesscom, Green News
Jonathan A. Schein

In recent published reports, the University of New Hampshire has found a new way to generate energy. The university's EcoLine project, four years in t...

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Are Software Salesmen Dirty?

Jonathan Ezer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: CIT Failure, Software, Failure, Sales, Waste Management, Sap, It Systems, Software Sales, Selling, Technology News
Jonathan Ezer

A recent lawsuit rocked the software industry. Waste Management sued SAP for the "complete failure" of an ERP implementation, seeking $100 million in ...

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Biggest Accounting Scandals Of All Time (PHOTOS)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Richard Scrushy, Worldcom, Frank DiPascali, Enron, Healthsouth, Accounting Fraud, Aig, Repo 105, Freddie Mac, Accounting Scandals, Madoff, Lehman Brothers, Waste Management, Slidepollajax, Business News

Got a creative impulse? Accounting may be the profession for you! As you'll see from the below collection of massive book-cooking frauds, there may...

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Weekly Mulch: Green products, green energy

The Media Consortium | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bj Services, Fracking, Halliburton, Epa, Green, Environmentalism, Clean Energy, Nuclear, Safe Drining Water Act, Care2, Chemicals, Jet Fuel, Green Products, Mother Jones, Nike, Waste Management, Waste, British Airways, Hydrofracking, Starbucks, Natural Gas, Green News
The Media Consortium

By Sarah Laskow, Media Consortium Blogger Ed. note: This week's Mulch is pint-sized and will run on Monday rather than Friday. We'll be back to our re...

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La Danse and Undercover Boss: The Hierarchy of Labor

Trish Kinney | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Undercover Boss, Waste Management, Labor Relations, Frederick Wiseman, La Danse, Business News
Trish Kinney

As a young woman, I owned a dance studio and took work as a professional choreographer for musicals and operas. My father lured me into the world of ...

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Reuse or Recycle? Try Freecycling

Jonathan Merritt | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Time Magazine, The Environmentalist, Environmentalists, Green, Environmentalism, Green Like God, Green Living, Recycling, Green Movement, Recycle, Recycled Materials, Waste Management, Waste, Environment, Jonathan Merritt, Reuse, Freecycle, Reducing Waste, freecycle.org, Green News
Jonathan Merritt

Unfortunately, there is more to sustainable living than just recycling. Recycling is good, but it is even better not to use disposable goods if possible.

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So. Cal. Chronicles - Redemption For $28.69

Jane Minogue | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Recycling, Trash, Aluminum Cans, Plastic Bottles, California Bottle Bill, Waste Management, Recycled Materials, California, Green Living, Jane Minogue, Healthy Living News
Jane Minogue

It was the last day of my husband's staycation (nope, we didn't go anywhere), and we realized that one of the errands we overlooked (party animals that we are) was taking the recycling to a center.

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America's Greenest Colleges: Did Your School Make the Grade?

Avital Binshtock | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Journalists, College Students, Alma Mater, University of Vermont, Green Jobs, Oberlin, Alumni, Green, College Rankings, Coal, Academics, Colleges, University of Colorado, Rankings, Ratings, Sierra Club, Evergreen State College, Campuses, Energy, U.S. News & World Report, UC Santa Cruz, Administration, Ucla, UC Berkeley, University of Washington, Community Colleges, Students, Athletics, Transportation, Sports, Education, Energy Efficiency, University of California, Middlebury College, College, Waste Management, Sustainability, Food, Schools, Higher Education, College Graduates, College of the Atlantic, Green News
Avital Binshtock

While the good folks at U.S. News and World Report ascribe certain measurements of prestige to their college rankings, we rated schools based on what matters most to us.

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The Garbage Nightmare

Bernie Bulkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Environment, Landfills, Waste, Methane, Greenhouse Gases, Waste Management, Green News
Bernie Bulkin

We have to minimize, recycle, reuse and think of waste as food. We have to stop thinking about cradle to grave and start thinking about cradle to cradle.

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The Cooler is Me

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Waste Management, McDonald's, Top Performing Stocks, Wal-Mart, Business News
<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

I have incredible destructive power within my grasp, and I have to use it judiciously. This recovery that's in the wind is a delicate thing and I'm not one of those guys who's looking for ways to kill it.

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