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Md. Passes Law Requiring Apartment Recycling

May 24, 2012, earth911.com | “Earlier this month, Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley signed a bill into law that makes it mandatory for all multifamily complexes of 10 units or more to make recycling available to residents by October 2014.”

 

“Should be everywhere!
Md. Passes Law Requiring Apartment Recycling – Earth911.com
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Guide to local resources including recycling centers, how to recycle, pollution prevention and how help protect the environment.”
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Court Rejects Southern California Mega-development Next to Wildlife Area

May 24, 2012, www.enn.com | “The Riverside County Superior Court has issued a final decision rejecting the “Villages of Lakeview” development next to the San Jacinto Wildlife Area in rural Riverside County.”

Court Stops Southern California Mega-development Next to Wildlife Area
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Govt wants larger green role for corporates

May 24, 2012, www.hindustantimes.com | “Widening the scope of corporate environmental responsibility for a sustainable future, the government wants companies, both private and public sector units, to set up dedicated bodies and allocate a budget to ensure better compliance — over and above the present legal requirements.”

 

“~ India to Corporations -> Go Green, “over and above the present legal requirements”
In a draft paper to institutionalise the concept anIn a draft paper, the ministry of environment and
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Japanese university developing building plaster made with zeolite to absorb cesium

May 21, 2012, enformable.com | A Japanese research group says they have succeeded in developing a building material that could filter most radioactive cesium from contaminated water by using zeolite powder instead of sand.

Crystal Pistol shared a link.
“A Japanese research group says they have succeeded in developing a building material that could filter most radioactive cesium from contaminated water by using zeolite powder instead of sand…. http://enformable.com/2012/05/japanese-university-developing-building-plaster-made-with-zeolite-to-absorb-cesium
One unresolved problem with the Fukushima Daiichi disaster is the radioactive particles contamination worldwide, and especially in Japan. Dispersed low level contamination poses a particular challenge to those charged with its remediation.”
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Ball State Completes Nation’s Largest Ground-Source Geothermal System

May 14, 2012, www.care2.com | “Indiana’s Ball State University will eliminate the four aging coal-fired boilers that heat and cool 47 university buildings, representing 5.5 million square feet. The project provides several hundred contractors and suppliers employment and an opportunity for an estimated 2,300 direct and indirect jobs, according to a study conducted by Ball State’s Center for Business and Economic Research.”

Mariette Low shared a link.
“Almost 50 university buildings to be powered by renewables. The system allows Ball State to eliminate the four aging coal-fired boilers that heat and cool 47 university buildings.”
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The Fair Transport Co. Reintroduces Sailing Ships as Cargo Carriers

May 7, 2012, www.sail-world.com | “Mott Green has joined the Tres Hombres voyage to become the first chocolate maker to ship a mass quantity of chocolate sustainably. He is shipping five tons of his award-winning organic dark chocolate from Grenada to New York, Portsmouth and Amsterdam. The voyagemarks the first ever carbon-neutral trans-Atlantic mass chocolate delivery.”

“~ SAILING SHIPS RETURN AS CARGO CARRIERS!
The ship above, Tres Hombres, is on it’s 3rd voyage from the Caribbean to England with a load of rum, chocolate and other assorted goods. http://www.sail-world.com/CruisingAus/index.cfm?SEID=2&Nid=96982&SRCID=0&ntid=0&tickeruid=0&tickerCID=0
Another venture, the New Dawn traders, hope to bring goods back from South America by sail…”
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EcoATM raises $17M to bring e-waste kiosks to you

May 3, 2012, www.smartplanet.com | “The average U.S. household owns 24 different consumer electronic devices, many of which are no longer being used. Some devices end up stashed in a drawer (you know the one). Other obsolete or broken devices — nearly 2.4 million tons in a year according to the most recent EPA figures — are tossed into landfills.”

“EcoATM raises $17M to bring e-waste kiosks to you | SmartPlanet
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The San Diego-based startup that developed an ATM to buy and recycle smartphones, MP3 players and other electronic devices has raised $17 million to r..”
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5 Pieces of Good News From Planet Earth

Credit: NASA.

April 20, 2012, www.motherjones.com | “Most news from nature is depressing—species extinctions, changing climate, dying oceans. Yet it’s not all bad… though we might never know it, since positive news is underreported. I wrote about this tendency in my latest MoJo print piece about my old friend Enriqueta Velarde and her work to save an island and a whole ecosystem called Can One Incredibly Stubborn Person Save a Species?”

5 Pieces of Good News From Planet Earth
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A lot of people are working overtime to save endangered species and ecosystems. We don’t hear enough about them.
  • COMMENTS:
    GoodNews FortheEarth ~ great article, with reference to the need to publicize good news!
    read it and check these out:
    1) Huge Drop in PCB Levels in Norwegian Polar Bears
    2) Amur Cats Get Their Own 650,000 acre National Park
    3) Half Billion Dollars Funds Most Ambitious Conservation Programs Ever
    4) Right Whales Return to New Zealand
    5) Arabian Oryx Returns from Extinction
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World’s Largest 100,000 sq ft Garden will be Largest Rooftop Garden in the World

April 6, 2012, www.grist.org | “BrightFarms announced that it would be building the largest rooftop farm in the world.  It will grow up to 1 million pounds of veggies like tomatoes, lettuces, and herbs each year, with the first harvest planned for next spring.”

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Presenting the largest rooftop farm … in the world!!!
In Brooklyn yesterday, BrightFarms announced that it would be building the largest rooftop farm … in the world!!! The New York-based company builds hydroponic greenhouse farms that are connected …”
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    • Arthur Carlson This could be a small step that can competently change our perception of the urban environment.
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Switching Off for Sustainability

Overview of Sydney during Earth HourApril 1, 2012, www.worldnature.org | “For one hour on March 31st, 2012, more than 6,500 cities across the world went dark. In Brazil, the lights that usually shine on the statue of Christ the Redeemer dimmed to black. In Colombia, television station TeleMedellin shut off its program transmissions. Even New York City’s Empire State Building and London’s Big Ben stood in the dark for sixty minutes. The voluntary blackout was part of Earth Hour 2012, an international movement that aims to unite people around the world to create a more sustainable future.”

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~ old news, good news
6,500 CITIES TURNED OUT THE LIGHTS FOR EARTH HOUR, 03/31/2012
sometimes it takes 6 months for the full report on the extent of participation in something like this to come in.
Switching Off for Sustainability
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