News from Patricia Escarcega
A new study takes a closer look at how schools deal with the millions of textbooks that become damaged or outdated every year.
News from Waste Management
Written by Tim Gray, strategic business director, Waste Management If you’ve been to a football game or tailgate this season, you may have noticed that events like that produce a lot of waste. In fact, stadiums produce more than 39 ...
News from Waste Management
Written by Lisa Gordon, Director of Brand, Waste Management Summer is winding down, and so is this year’s Big Green Bus tour. Every summer for the last eight years, a dozen or so Dartmouth College students have traveled the country ...
News from Kelsey Perry
Thousands of buildings around the U.S. are going head to head to see who can go the greenest. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Energy Star program launched the 2012 National Building Competition: Battle of the Buildings last week. Each participant ...
News from Christina Caldwell
A new report by As You Sow, an organization that promotes corporate environmental responsibility, shows that a staggering $11.4 billion worth of recyclables enter landfills each year– materials that could be easily reused or recycled. Forty percent of the U.S. ...
Quick Bit from Kelsey Perry
College students are always looking for ways to cut costs and Florida State University offers an inexpensive and eco-friendly way for students to get around. The FSU reCycle Bike Program offers refurbished bikes to students for rent at prices much lower ...
News from Christina Caldwell
Teaching children healthy eating habits is one thing, but what about teaching them healthy disposal habits? Americans discarded nearly 34 million tons of food waste in 2010, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. When five New York City parents saw ...
News from Christina Caldwell
Imagine a future in which the majority of energy used in the U.S. is clean and renewable. It isn’t a concept that depends on undeveloped future technology, a new report from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory suggests. The report claims ...
News from Christina Caldwell
If we have the option to recycle, does that mean we don’t feel the need to reduce or reuse our resources? That’s the conclusion that one recently released University of California, Irvine study found. The study by Jesse R. Catlin ...
News from Christina Caldwell
When we recycle, we often think of the next generation of Earth-dwellers that will eventually live with our waste. Many avid recyclers teach their children the importance of material reuse– but what if children without access to that education had ...
News from Nate Lipka
An effort steered by students at The College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Va. has made the school’s dining facilities some of the most waste-conscious in the country. Collecting compost in cafeterias is a big part of that. Check ...
Feature from Raquel Fagan
In April 1970, recent college graduate Marchant Wentworth, now deputy legislative director for the Union of Concerned Scientists‘ climate and energy program, was hard at work at the Earth Day Headquarters on P Street in Washington, D.C. “It was a ...