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Monday, May 02, 2005
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The National Pollution Prevention Roundtable is now taking pre-orders for posters for National Pollution Prevention Week, which is traditionally celebrated the third full week of September, from Monday to the following Sunday. It is a time when businesses, environmental groups and citizens can join forces for a common cause. By sharing information about pollution prevention (P2), businesses can become more competitive, businesses and government can realize cost savings, and environmental quality can be enhanced.
Posters are available for $4 for NPPR members and $8 for non-members and orders may be placed online at http://www.p2.org/p2week/index.cfm. [ChemAlliance Environmental News]
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The National Pollution Prevention Roundtable is now taking nominations for the Most Valuable Pollution Prevention (MVP2) Awards. The awards are designed to recognize outstanding and innovative P2 projects/programs. As in years past, awards are judged on the following five broad criteria: innovation, measurable results, transferability, commitment, and optimization of available project resources.
Third-party Judges are instructed to specifically look for applicants that demonstrate source reduction activities. Winning applicants are invited to attend a ceremony in Washington, DC where congressmen and others dedicated to pollution prevention will honor their achievement. Projects, Programs or Publications from government agencies, academic institutions, private industry, NGO’s and individual NPPR members are eligible.
The application deadline is May 20, 2005. Winners will be announced in July 2005. For more information, visit http://www.p2.org/p2week/HowTo.cfm. [ChemAlliance Environmental News]
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Via sustainablog:
I purchased an all-natural weed-n-feed from Gardens Alive (a sustainablog affiliate program), and when I received it, it was packed in these very cool biodegradeable packing peanuts. I simply threw them on the compost pile, hosed them down, and they dissolved before my eyes. Now, Treehugger points us to a similar development:
A biodegradable packaging tape made from renewable resources is being developed by German researchers that can be disposed of cheaply. Currently, used plastic wrappings and containers are incinerated or dumped in huge quantities on landfill sites with ongoing environmental results.
The organic packaging tape will be available worldwide in 2005 and may be as cheap as current tape if oil prices continue to rise and manufacturing costs come down.
The compostable tape is particularly effective for use when the rest of the packaging material is also biodegradable, allowing the whole unit to be disposed of without separating individual materials.
Under normal conditions, the composted film breaks down to half its weight within about four weeks. The compostable film is already being marketed under the name Bio-Flex 219F. If this keeps up, pretty soon we won't have to worry about package trash, since we can just throw these things in the compost pile (or even the back yard) and just let them decompose...
Technorati tags: biodegradeable, packaging
Click here for WOW! - All Natural Weed and feed for your lawn. By noemail@noemail.org (Jeff McIntire-Strasburg). [sustainablog]
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Via sustainablog:
My yard is green and colorful, the weather's warming up nicely, and I've got two weeks to get through a massive amount of grading I've put off until the very end... sigh... some things never change. And just like that stack of papers, my Bloglines feeds are are about to topple over from their own weight. So, in the interest of efficiency and not missing out on some really cool items, here's an overview of some of the best stuff out there:
- Dave Roberts was kind enough to mention my very truncated overview of reactions to the new/old Bush energy policy, but he's done a much better job of pointing out a wider range of opinions on this yawner... So, what is it folks: are Dubya and company just proving their status as dirty energy bitches, or do they truly lack imagination? We report, you decide.
- But while the federal government again show its loyalty to the oil, gas and nuclear sugar daddies, the states continue with truly bold and innovative approaches to energy development: RenewableEnergyAccess.com points us to exciting news in North Dakota, Maine and Tennessee. They also show us that not everyone at the federal level is 'ho'in' for the fossil fuels folks: Sen. Barak Obama is pushing for tax credits for E85 ethanol, and sixty-seven members of the House of Represetatives want to see more funding for energy efficiency and renewable energy for Fiscal Year 2006.
- Both the Sierra Club's Daily Scoop and Gil Friend remind us that the private sector is seeing the light on climate change and other environmental issues even as their boys/girls in Washington keep their heads in the sand.
- WorldChanging shows us that the Europeans still get it, even as they recognize the challenges of sustainable development...
- Soapwire shows us that the Bushies are still trying to make organic standards more "business-friendly," which, in their tiny little minds, mean watering down those standards.
- Ranger Bob and kin made it through their move relatively unscathed, and he's back watching developments with public land.
- The Navy and Air Force are making progress on the renewable energy front... Update: I originally found the news about the Air Force on TriplePundit, and just couldn't relocate it yesterday...
- And, finally, long live the ivory-billed woodpecker...
As always, just scratching the surface here... Lots more to see at our friends on the right side of the page... Technorati tags: sustainable development, energy, politics, business, organic Gifts for everyone on your list! Exciting and Unique gifts that show people how much you care about them and the earth.
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By noemail@noemail.org (Jeff McIntire-Strasburg). [sustainablog]
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Via sustainablog:
Scotsman.com reports on another type of fuel cell research:
Scientists in Scotland are leading research to develop new technology that can harness the power of the sun to clean up polluted water - while producing electricity at the same time.
At the heart of the research at Aberdeen University is a new type of fuel cell that is capable of using sunlight to break down various pollutants in water and produces electricity as a byproduct.
The results of a £1.2 million three-year research initiative, announced yesterday, could eventually be used to treat water in third world countries as well as provide cheap water treatment in the oil and gas and water industries. This, along with the post on microbial fuel cells below, demonstrates what a flexible concept the fuel cell is. I must admit that the more I read, the more I realize how little I know about fuel cells. Would someone like to explain them? [sustainablog]
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Via Gil Friend:
Tall green. My latest 'Sustainabilty Sundays' posting just went up at WorldChanging.com -- this one about the proliferation of green/high-performance high-rise buildings. The folks who did 4 Times Square are at it again with 1 Bryant Park, just a block away -- one of many high rise green projects underway around the planet. No one's stepping up to the bar with anything like Paolo Soleri's "Arcologies" just yet, but, for all the pastoral visions of green futures that people may dream, both the realities of global urbanization and the potential efficiencies that proximity and density can offer tell me that the success and failure of the human enteprise on this planet will depend on whether, how and how quickly we are able to transform cities to live in harmony with nature's cycles. More... This was a highlight at the EnvironDesign9 conference in NYC at the end of April. My own focus at the conference was presenting a workshop on "Going with the Flows: Metabolism to Metrics to Management Insight" -- exploring how "metabolic" (or "material flow") analysis can provide key performance indicators and strategic guidance for companies, developments and communities. We've been using the Business Metabolics[dot accent] KPI system to do just that, and just completed another regional metabolism assessment -- this one of Albuquerque, NM.) [Gil Friend]
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Laura L. Barnes.
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