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Recycling and composting helped San Francisco divert 77 percent of its garbage from landfills in 2008, which it hailed as a national record and the highest of any city in the U.S. [continue]

Image credit: RocketJim54 (Creative Commons) When I took up the rural green life (elitist or not), there was an inevitable trade-off between bee keeping, large-scale composting, mushroom growing, Read the full story on TreeHugger [continue]

Iranian environmental groups are trying to clean up natural areas around cities. Photo via Green Prophet. In the northeastern reaches of Turkey, outside the city of Kars, I came across one of the most bucolic scenes I'd ever laid eyes on in the country: a clear stream winding its way through a... [continue]

Flooring company Mohawk Industries is aiming to reduce by 25 percent the intensity of its energy and water use along with its greenhouse gas emissions and the amount of landfill waste it creates. [continue]

Image credit ESA In the ongoing attempt to come up with the best idea for removing the waste that orbits the earth, we've seen some real doozies for ideas -- from launching water to knock it out of orbit to the more feasable giant GoLD balloon. But the US Defense Advanced Research Project Agency... [continue]

Image credit: Nesster/Flickr Jamming phone lines, fax machines or e-mail boxes with messages has been a key tactic ever since I first became an environmental activist. I remember one Senator telling me in 1994, before the internet existed as we know it today, before Facebook and Twitter and mass... [continue]

Image via Star Tribune Composting is catching on nationwide as more cities provide services to residents for collecting food, landscape clippings and other compostable separate from recylables and landfill waste. But to test out if the St. Paul, Minn.'s Macalester-Groveland neighborhood is ready... [continue]

 Recycling glass used to be challenge in Kansas City, but a non-profit, brewery and insulation maker have turned that around with Ripple Glass, a company that has its sights set on doubling the city's glass recycling rate. [continue]

 A packaging material made of mushroom roots and agricultural waste is lowering its energy footprint further with new sterilizing technology. [continue]

Photo credit Gulmammad under Creative Commons license. It was an 800-pound butter sculpture of Ben Franklin that led researchers to decide dairy-to-diesel was even a possibility, according to this report in the New York Times. Organizers of the Pennsylvania Farm Show that put up the Franklin... [continue]