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The State of Illinois is set to change cell phone recycling and electronics waste disposal practices within the state as part of the implementation of a recycling law that took effect in 2008.

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Schools, communities, and organizations doing their cell phone collection drives this December:

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I was watching the movie WALL-E last weekend with my two boys and what caught my attention was the amount of space junk that the spacecraft has to pass through as it begins its journey away from the planet. As it is, that scene is not as far-fetched as one might imagine.

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I’m a firm believer in the economies of scale. I’ve always thought that things done on a larger scale are not only efficient but cost-effective as well. But the whole concept of buying wholesale to save is not always true. Not in the clean energy sector anyway.

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Photographer Tim Simmons in a commission called The Urban Land Project aims to challenge people to reflect and reconnect with their surroundings.
For many city dwellers, the only glimpses of beautiful nature they’ll have on a regular day would be in the images of their desktop nature themes or screen savers. Unless you live near an [...]

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Collins hybrid electric Type A school bus. Collins Bus Corporation is one of the finalist’s in the Waste and Recycling News’ Green Corporate Citizen Award. (Photo: autoblog).
Waste and Recycling News announced the winners of it’s Green Corporate Citizen Award during the Corporate Recycling & Waste Conference that it hosts in cooperation with Republic Services.

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To cap off our focus on solar energy this month, here’s some exciting news. With the spate of negative publicity surrounding the U.S. solar power industry (Evergreen Solar bankruptcy and the dim future of thin-film manufacturer Solyndra), many people, investors among them, hardly expect any encouraging news to come from the sector this year. The [...]

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Here’s something that might prove useful to people who have lost power during a natural disaster like an earthquake or a hurricane. In Japan, a few weeks ago, Nissan unveiled a system to power an entire house during a power interruption or outage, using the LEAF electric vehicle.

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In a move that’s widely seen as a further proof of the armed services’ commitment to develop renewable sources, the United States Army has recently announced the creation of Energy Initiatives Office Task Force. The new command will be responsible for the building of renewable energy power plants in U.S. military bases across the world, [...]

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Suntrek, based in Irvine, California, has installed a 672 kW solar power system at the Yosemite National Park, one of the nation’s oldest and most beloved nature reserves. Visitors to the park will see not just the parks natural attractions, including the world-famous El Capitan monolith, but the solar panels attached to structures in [...]

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