Watch: Waste Management video showing how landfill gas is converted to clean energy.
Few people in this “watch-the-gulf-war-on-cable-TV-at-dinner-time” era have not heard of Raytheon. If you haven’t, how about Patriot missile defense systems?

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A U.N. report released early this month suggested that manufacturing of advanced technology vehicles like hybrids and full electric vehicles (EVs) might slow down at some point in the future because of the low global rate of metal recycling.

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California’s e-waste recycling program reached an impressive environmental milestone this month – the state has just recycled its one billionth pound of electronic waste after passing a series of regulations beginning in 2001. According the the San Jose Mercury News, one billion lbs. of e-waste is equivalent to roughly 20 million televisions and computers diverted [...]

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A girl in Guiyo, China stands in front of a pile of e-waste holding a trashed keyboard manufactured by Apple. © Greenpeace / Bruno Rebelle.
If you’ve been following this blog, you know that we’ve focused on the problem of e-waste in several posts in the past. We’re all aware of the dangers that improper [...]

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When we wrote our article about the city of Pacific Grove in California and its newly approved (at the time) ban on styrofoam or polystyrene food containers, there were just a handful of cities in California and in other states that have instituted similar restrictions.

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Watch: Video showing the steps in the long and energy intensive process of plastic bottle recycling.
As you may have noticed, we’re a big fan of recycling in this blog. There are times, however, that we need to question our own basic assumptions about the best ways to protect the environment. One of these assumptions – [...]

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Last year, we wrote about the suspected danger of cell phone radiation to human health, noting at the time that no conclusive evidence had positively established a direct link between habitual cell phone use and the spread of brain cancer.

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As people become more conscious of the need to efficiently manage and save on their energy consumption and as traditional energy sources become more limited, the use of energy saving devices will become more commonplace in households and businesses across America.

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Watch: Interview with Josh Nesbit of Frontline SMS
Delivering health care in Malawi, one of the poorest countries in Africa, is critical but the difficulties health personnel face are quite daunting. Health workers have to travel hundreds of miles each week while patients have to walk barefoot for miles and miles of dirt road to consult [...]

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