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Building Hope One House at a Time: Nancy Murray has taken recycling to a whole new level — she recycles houses. by erica — last modified Nov 20, 2009 03:27 PM — filed under: Nancy Murray, buildings, greenhouse gas emissions, business, climate change, housing, recycling, global warming, Builders of Hope, sustainability, homelessness, waste — Relevance: 1%
Cash for Crappers: TheGreenGrok’s Cash for Crappers program asks you to “just say no” to wasteful toilets while stimulating the ailing bathroom appliance industry. by erica — last modified Sep 08, 2009 08:57 AM — filed under: toilets, waste, natural resources, dual-flush, low-flush, water, sustainability, water savings, Do It Yourself, technology — Relevance: 1%
A Global Diet on Livestock Emissions: You’ve heard about REDD, the program to "reduce emissions from deforestation and degradation." Why not RECC, an effort to Reduce Emissions from Cows and Cattle? by erica — last modified Nov 10, 2009 02:11 PM — filed under: Reductions in Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation, fossil fuels, animals, waste, climate change, nitrogen oxides, forests, meat, deforestation, REDD, cows, greenhouse gas emissions, carbon dioxide emissions, methane — Relevance: 1%
EPA’s Latest Coal Waste Installment: More Ponds. Less Worry?: It seems the more the Environmental Protection Agency digs, the more coal ash waste ponds are found, but a coal group exec assures us that all is quiet. Ah, ... by erica — last modified Sep 11, 2009 03:31 PM — filed under: Statistically Speaking, Kingston Fossil Power Plant, coal, coal ash, Environmental Protection Agency, waste, hazardous waste, Tennessee Valley Authority — Relevance: 1%
Statistically Speaking: Toxic Releases: How Much Do We Really Know?: Last week the U.S. EPA issued the <a href="http://www.epa.gov/tri/tridata/tri07/index.htm">Toxic Release Inventory for 2007</a> – a compilation of the toxic ... by wendy — last modified Mar 31, 2009 12:33 PM — filed under: TRI, air pollution, Statistically Speaking, REACH, TSCA, Environmental Protection Agency, waste, European Union, pollution — Relevance: 1%
Statistically Speaking: Pigs by the Numbers: <i>New York Times</i> columnist Nicholas D. Kristof has a great series on the link between our food, pigs in this case, and our health. What’s the connection ... by erica — last modified Mar 31, 2009 12:31 PM — filed under: animals, Statistically Speaking, Nicholas Kristof, hogs, antibiotics, pigs, New York Times, waste — Relevance: 1%
Finally Standards for Coal Ash … Just in Time?: On Monday, while the Environmental Protection Agency sought information from electric companies about their coal waste disposal practices, a new crisis was ... by erica — last modified Jul 06, 2009 11:30 AM — filed under: waste, toxins, water pollution, Bill Clinton, Kingston Fossil Power Plant, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, coal ash, policy, Environmental Protection Agency, power plants, Tennessee Valley Authority, pollution — Relevance: 1%
Statistically Speaking - Coal Waste: What's It Good For?: As we’ve seen from recent catastrophic spills at coal plants in Harriman, Tennessee, and Widows Creek, Alabama, it’s past time to take a closer look at how we ... by erica — last modified Jul 13, 2009 10:28 AM — filed under: Statistically Speaking, Kingston Fossil Power Plant, statistically speaking, coal, coal ash, Environmental Protection Agency, waste, Tennessee Valley Authority — Relevance: 1%
Hong Kong Journal: This is my second dispatch from Hong Kong, where I am helping City University of Hong Kong develop a new Energy and Environment program. Hong Kong is known as ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 01:59 PM — filed under: waste, air quality, business, air pollution, Pearl River, energy, natural gas, water, global economy, Guandong Province, water pollution, factories, Hong Kong, industry — Relevance: 1%
Grok Image: Lake or Waste Pond? You Decide.: Here on the Grok we’ve touched on the vast quantities of waste stored at coal-fired power plants in landfills and ponds otherwise known as impoundments, but ... by erica — last modified Mar 16, 2009 11:51 AM — filed under: Little Blue Run Waste Pond, coal, waste, coal ash — Relevance: 1%
Clean Coal’s Dirty Secret - When 'Clean' Isn't Clean: Coal is the dirtiest fossil fuel. Burning it produces a myriad of noxious air pollutants. That's a problem. Clean coal technology supposedly scrubs those ... by erica — last modified Jul 06, 2009 11:27 AM — filed under: air quality, air pollution, particulate matter, Kingston Fossil Power Plant, coal, water pollution, coal ash, waste, Tennessee Valley Authority, power plants — Relevance: 1%
Environmental Roundup: From coastal wetlands and "green" tissue paper to getting the lead out, here are four environmental news items theGreenGrok thought you might want to know ... by erica — last modified Mar 31, 2009 02:25 PM — filed under: wetlands, air quality, lead, air pollution, water, health, recycled paper, Environmental Protection Agency, waste — Relevance: 1%
Exxon Valdez 20 Years Later: Prince William Sound, 2009. Pictures of picturesque beaches and icy-blue waters might suggest that the effects of the 1989 oil spill are long gone. Dig a ... by erica — last modified Apr 01, 2009 01:54 PM — filed under: oil, waste, oil company, oil spill, oceans, Exxon Valdez, Prince William Sound, ecosystems, fossil fuels, pollution — Relevance: 1%
Coal Ash Waste: Where We Are Now and Where We Still Have to Go: <p>The Kingston <a class="external-link" href="http://www.epakingstontva.com/default.aspx">coal ash spill</a> was the spark that lit a fire under the ... by erica — last modified Sep 03, 2009 10:25 AM — filed under: hazardous waste, coal, coal ash, Environmental Protection Agency, waste, Kingston Fossil Power Plant, pollution — Relevance: 1%
Update: Where Is the Coal Ash Waste Going?: They’ve finally figured out what to do with all that coal ash from the spill last December in Tennessee. Send it to a poor, primarily African-American ... by erica — last modified Jul 06, 2009 11:13 AM — filed under: Kingston Fossil Power Plant, waste, coal ash, Tennessee Valley Authority — Relevance: 1%
Forget Mackerel. Holy Bass.: The Clean Water Act is no longer keeping our water clean. by erica — last modified Sep 16, 2009 05:08 PM — filed under: intersex fish, Richard Nixon, dead zone, policy, fish, legislation, endocrine disrupters, water, Clean Water Act, water pollution, nutrient runoff, fertilizer, politics, waste, pollution — Relevance: 1%
Trash Is a Terrible Thing to Waste: Looking to lower your impact on the planet? Look no further than your trash bin. by erica — last modified Oct 21, 2009 03:54 PM — filed under: trash, waste, garbage, composting, energy, recycling, landfills, dumpster diving, freegan, recycled paper, Do It Yourself, pollution — Relevance: 1%
You Are What Your Farmed Fish Eat: You can take the fish out of the ocean and raise them in a farm, but you don’t necessarily get the ocean’s protein from the farmed fish. by erica — last modified Sep 14, 2009 01:55 PM — filed under: food, science, fish, oceans, Pulse of the Planet, paper, aquaculture, waste, farmed fish, overfishing — Relevance: 1%

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