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GM gets serious about recycling |
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 At General Motors, it's all hands on deck to make half of its manufacturing plants "nil to landfill" by the end of the year. John Bradburn, project manager for GM's Design for Environment initiatives, said 69 of the company's plants worldwide are now landfill free (up from 62, and 43% of production, in May).
But that's just one part of the story: To reduce landfill waste, the company is also using as much recycled material in its cars as is humanly possible. I asked Bradburn if the company was motivated by saving money, or by making an environmental statement. "It's more in line with doing the right thing," he said, "but the performance of the recycled materials is there."
Read more at Forbes.com >> |
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 The British appetite for quick, cheap, convenient food that we can eat wherever we happen to be has hidden costs to society, public health and the environment. This report investigates the economic pressures facing independent cafés and sandwich bars which often forces social justice, sustainability and health off the menu.
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$1.2 billion secured for what will be the largest US wind farm |
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 Terra-Gen Power just secured a whopping 1.2 billion dollars in financing to up the ante on United States wind farms. With this latest round of cash they’ll be adding 570 megawatts of capacity to their Alta Wind Energy Center in Kern County, California to bring the total capacity up to a mega-impressive 3,000 megawatts making it the largest wind farm in the United States. The farm should be completed and ready for juicing the grid with renewable energy by the first and second quarters of 2011. Anyone up for topping that? This, “who can build the biggest wind farm,” is one showmanship game that we’re totally willing to egg on.
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Smart city governments grow produce for the people |
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 There's a new breed of urban agriculture germinating throughout the country, one whose seeds come from an unlikely source.
Local government officials from Baltimore, Md., to Bainbridge Island, Wash. are plowing under the ubiquitous hydrangeas, petunias, daylilies, and turf grass around public buildings, and planting fruits and vegetables instead – as well as in underutilized spaces in our parks, plazas, street medians, and even parking lots. The new attitude at forward-thinking city halls seems to be, in a tough economy, why expend precious resources growing ornamental plants, when you can grow edible ones? And the bounty from these municipal gardens – call it public produce – not only promotes healthy eating, it bolsters food security simply by providing passersby with ready access to low- or no-cost fresh fruits and vegetables.
Read more at Grist.com>>
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How working less & curbing consumerism is the sustainability thing to do |
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 A while ago, when the New Economics Foundation report advocating a gradual transition to 21-hour work weeks came out I was quite enthusiastic about it—though at the same time acknowledging that it would require a shift in some of our basic and thoroughly ingrained structural economic assumptions. First and foremost of these is that economic growth is the solution to all the world's development problems and that Gross Domestic Product is an accurate measurement of national progress.
Read more at PlanetGreen.com >> |
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