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The Pentagon's Black Hole

Winslow T. Wheeler | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Pentagon, DOD Inspector General, Financial Management, Waste, Defense Spending, Pentagon Budget, Gao, Defense Budget, Obama Pentagon, Politics News
Winslow T. Wheeler

It's not that DOD is flunking audits. You flunk an audit when you track the money and find it was not spent as intended. DOD cannot track the money; the Department of Defense is unauditable.

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Want to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint? Reduce Your Trash Footprint!

John DeCock | Posted 10.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Packaging, Waste, Trash, Climate Change, No Impact Week, Oceans, Water, Epa, Green News
John DeCock

The Product Policy Institute has recently released two new reports that confirm product and packaging waste contribute forty-four percent of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.

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Health Care System Wastes Up To $850 Billion Annually, Report Says

Politics Daily | David Sessions | Posted 10.26.2009 | Business

Read More: Malpractice, Fraud, Medical Mistakes, Thomson Reuters, Paperwork, Preventable Conditions, Billions, Inefficiency, Administrative Inefficiency, American Health Care System, Billions of Dollars, Waste, Unnecessary Care, Fradulent Medicare Claims, Health Care, Business News

According to a report by Thomson Reuters, the American health care system wastes between $505 billion and $850 billion every year, which is up to a th...

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Trash Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Freegan, Recycling, Energy, Dumpster Diving, Landfills, Waste, Composting, Trash, Do It Yourself, Pollution, Lower Your Impact, Garbage, Recycled Paper, Green News
Bill Chameides

Looking to lower your impact on the planet? Look no further than your trash bin. We Americans produce a lot of trash -- by some estimates about 250 million tons of the stuff per year.

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No Impact Week: Trash

Huffington Post | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Video, No Impact Week, No Impact Man, Trash Management, Green, Waste, Slideshow, Pico Rivera, China, Green News

As part of Trash Day for No Impact Week, (learn more here and sign up) we're taking a deeper look into trash, recycling and where it all goes after we...

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Air Travel Made Greener: 4 Tips

Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Fuel, Carbon Emissions, Luggage, Green, Airplanes, Travel, Air Travel, Paper, Recycling, Carbon Offsets, Waste, Plastic, Flight, Planes, Weight Loss, Sierra Club, Airlines, Reducing Waste, Customer Service, Baggage, Green News
Avital Binshtock

Though air travel is unavoidable at times, there are a few things responsible travelers can do to make flights greener.

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Newtown Wastewater Treatment Plant, A Smelly and Unique Stop-Off In Greenpoint During Open House New York

Katharine Jose | Posted 10.14.2009 | New York

Read More: Trash, New York Trash, Urban Waste, Enviromental Technology, Brooklyn, Conservation, New York Waste, Green Living, Green Energy, New York, New York City, City Waste, Greenpoint, Water Treatment, Toxic Waste, Newtown Wastewater Treatment Plant, Biodegradable, Waste, New York News

By 12 p.m. on Saturday, October 10, all the free tours of the Newtown Creek Wastewater Treatment Plant were full. The tall chain-link fence gate was o...

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No More Plastic Water Bottles

Adele Israel | Posted 10.06.2009 | Denver

Read More: Waste, Recycling, Habits, Plastic, Water Bottles, North Pacific Gyre, Denver News
Adele Israel

I attempted to estimate the number of plastic bottles of water sold in Grand Junction in one week. But discount giants and other corporations hold on to sales figures tighter than oil companies hang on to fracking formulas.

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Britain Dumping Toxic Waste

Times London | Ben Webster | Posted 08.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Toxic Waste, Toxic Waste Dumps, Toxic Waste Dumping, Great Britain, Green News

Britain was accused yesterday of dumping toxic household and industrial waste in developing countries on two continents in breach of an international ...

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The Undoing of Gen. T. Michael Moseley: A Cautionary Tale About the Military/Industrial Complex

Reese Schonfeld | Posted 08.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Dod, US Military, Thunderbirds, Hornburg, Military, Favoritism, Air Force, Nuclear Missiles, Waste, Military-Reform, Edward Shipley, Secretary Wynne, Justice Department, Military Contracts, Veterans, T. Michael Moseley, Politics News
Reese Schonfeld

This tale recounts the interwoven fate of an Air Force Chief of Staff, potentially disastrous handling of nuclear weapons, and a financial advising company with more than 300,000 military personnel as investors.

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The Garbage Nightmare

Bernie Bulkin | Posted 08.15.2009 | Green

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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Congress Demands Full Account of Intelligence Outsourcing Mess - and It's a Mess

Frank Naif | Posted 08.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Mike McConnell, Corruption, Jeppesen Dataplan, Foia, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA Torture, Iraq Contractors, Mitchell Jessen & Associates, Outsourcing, Dusty Foggo, House Intelligence Committee, Dni, Booz Allen Hamilton, Classified Contracts, Jane Mayer, Cia, Private Security Contractors, Defense Contractors, Waste, Mohamed Et Al v Jeppesen Dataplan Inc., Leon Panetta, FOIA Requests, Leon Panetta CIA, Politics News
Frank Naif

The outsourcing of intelligence has impacted nearly every aspect of intelligence operations, and Congress wants to know how and why.

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Man Modifies Pickup Truck To Run On Wood And Waste

KPTV Portland | Posted 08.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Fuel, Gas, Wood, Vehicles, Biofuel, Pickup, Cars, Mr. Fusion, Green Living, Garbage, Pickup Truck, Environment, Waste, Back to the Future, Green Energy, Green News

From the first time he saw Emmett "Doc" Brown fire up the Mr. Fusion home energy reactor in the "Back to the Future" movies, Dave Nichols has always w...

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How to Be a Greener Pet Owner

Avital Binshtock | Posted 07.24.2009 | Green

Read More: PET Products, Cats, Pets, Poop, Neuter, Spay, Animal Shelters, Waste, Green, Pollution, Animals, Pound, Dogs, Green News
Avital Binshtock

Here are four tips about how to reduce Fido's and Fluffy's environmental pawprints.

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USB Hub With On/Off Switches: Green Or Waste? (POLL)

treehugger.com | Posted 07.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Plastic, Gadgets, Green Gadgets, Saving Energy, Poll, Waste, Saving Money, Green News

Treehugger spotted this gadget, which seems ideal for the multi-gadget family: A "4-port USB hub from Buffalo that lets you turn on or off just the ga...

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Will Zoe Loefgrin Vote $108 Billion For European Banks While California Goes Bankrupt?

Jane Hamsher | Posted 07.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jerry McNerney, Sam Farr, San Jose, Boondoggle, Meltdown, Campaign, Mike Thompson, Rahm Emanueal, Election, Zoe Lofgren, Cervical Cancer, 2010, California Bankrupt, Doris Matsui, Monterey, Waste, Supplemental, European Toxic Assets, Pork, Mike Honda, Sacramento, European Bankers, Napa, Breaast Cancer, Pleasanton, Politics News
Jane Hamsher

How will Loefgin justify giving $108 billion in loan guarantees to European banks while her own state goes bankrupt? How will anybody?

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High School Student Discovers Plastic-Eating Microbe

Mother Nature Network | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Plastic, Plastic Waste, Plastic-Eating Microbe, Green News

Daniel had a thought it seems even the most esteemed microbiology PhD's hadn't considered. Plastic, one of the most indestructible of manufactured mat...

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Greener Shaving Now! Do Away With Disposables (VIDEO)

Grist | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Green Shaving, Green Grooming, Green Living, Shaving, Water, Reducing Waste, Giy, Green News

How green is your grooming routine? Shaving is one place where a lot of Americans end up wasting a lot of water -- and other stuff. Grist's Umbra say...

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College Students Get Trashed -- Er, Get Energy From Trash

treehugger.com | Posted 06.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Energy, UNH, Landfill Gas, New Hampshire, Green News

The project just completed is known as EcoLine and uses purified methane gas from a nearby landfill. Nothing particularly new in that, but the big dea...

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Square Toilet Paper Begs You Not To Waste It

treehugger.com | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Square Toilet Paper, Toilet Paper, Reducing Waste, Paper, Green News

Ban reduced the amount of paper that rolls off the tube by making it square instead of round, so that what you take is what you really need. According...

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Save 60 Gallons Of Water In One Day

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Green Living, Reducing Waste, Water, Giy, Green News

You can save 60 gallons of water today without spending any money (I'm going to assume you own some of the things that I mention, like a 1000 sq ft ga...

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A Drop In The Bucket: Sensors Reduce Golf Course Water Use

nytimes.com | LARRY DORMAN | Posted 06.21.2009 | Green

Read More: Golf's Water Footprint, Golf, Water Footprint, Water, Waste, Environment, Green News

"We were a very efficient operation to start with," said Shawn Emerson, the superintendent at Desert Mountain Golf Club, a complex of six courses with...

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Cool Reuse: Cardboard Packaging Transforms Into Hangar

treehugger.com | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Green Living, Reducing Waste, Green Technology, Hangarpak, Resue, Green News

Packaging is a tough one. You can often reduce the amount used, but you still need something to protect what you're shipping. One solution is to make ...

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Waste Into Fuel: The Coolest Green Fuels

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Garbage Fuel, Biofuel, Waste, Beer Fuel, Chocolate Fuel, Waste Into Fuel, Green Technology, Green News

We have an oil dependency. We create too much waste. Wouldn't it be swell if we could kill two birds with one stone here? Here are some of the cooles...

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Water Footprint: How Much Water Your Stuff Takes

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 06.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Environment, Waste, Water Footprint, Water, Green News

We've all heard about carbon footprints. We know that the stuff we buy and use leaves a long trail of... stuff. A T-shirt involved growing cotton, whi...

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