Published June 25th, 2009 at 3:18 pm in Carbon Conundrum, Energy Emporium, circa 2020, Great Greenhouse Gas Grab, Talking Trash with 1 comments
Tagged with biomethane, carbon management, Greenhouse Gas, landfill gas, landfills, Linde, liquid natural gas, LNG, methane, solid waste, sustainability, Waste Management
California LNG Plant at Altamont Source: Len Butler, Waste Management
According to joint venture partners, Linde North America and Waste Management, construction on the world’s largest plant to convert landfill gas into clean vehicle fuel is nearing completion. Project details were shared today during a presentation at the National Biomethane Summit in Sacramento, Calif. The joint venture partners are installing systems to purify and liquefy landfill methane gas.
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Published June 24th, 2009 at 2:18 pm in Children, Growing Green Footprints, Waste Not with no comments
Tagged with Children, interactive game, Recycling, saveplanetblue
Meet Planet Blue! source: SavePlanetBlue.com
An interactive online game site, SavePlanetBlue.com has been launched. After one year of development, children around the world are invited to come register and become Planet Blue Savers. Registration is free.
According to the launch announcement, children today are more aware of environmental issues than at any other time before. Site visitors will encounter an animated 3-D website that provides customizing options. Read more of this >>
Published June 16th, 2009 at 5:59 pm in Carbon Conundrum, Food & Growing, Growing Green Footprints, Waste Not with no comments
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Sustainable packaging winners announced. Source: Converting Magazine
This press release came at the end of May care of Converting Magazine. We usually tend to shy away from releases, however, what was covered here — sustainable packaging — was important enough we chose to offer the information and the video of the awards ceremonies by Dupont.
Have a look at some great works that combine imagination and social responsibility in the packaging field:
29 May 09 Wilmington, DE — “A diverse group of businesses in multiple market segments are turning to sustainable packaging solutions to improve the environmental profile of their product offerings, according to DuPont as the company today announced the winners of the 21st DuPont Awards for Packaging Innovation at the industry’s first online interactive exchange on sustainable packaging (left). Winners include well-known brands such as Estee Lauder, Procter & Gamble, Unilever and Conagra for food, pharmaceutical, personal-care and other packaging segments. For more information on the winners and their sustainable packaging innovations, click here. Read more of this >>
Published June 9th, 2009 at 8:40 am in Our Wasteful Ways, Talking Trash with no comments
Tagged with environment, Great Pacific garbage patch, gyre, oceans, Pacific, plastic, shipping, trash vortex, Waste
If you have wondered whether or not garbage patches, gyres, and trash vortexes exist in the oceans, read Ole Nielsen’s blog, OleLog.
North Pacific gyre source: OleLog
Nielsen reports: “Can you imagine what happens when marine garbage ends up in such a vortex? It will never leave it again, all plastic will circulate, new plastic come by and circulate. Ships continue dumping their garbage at sea, and you end up with the world’s biggest landfill in the Pacific Ocean.
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Published June 4th, 2009 at 12:45 pm in Carbon Conundrum, Great Greenhouse Gas Grab, Growing Green Footprints with no comments
Tagged with alternative fuel, Arnold Schwarzenegger, auto, California, E-Fuel Corp, efuel, green fuel, micro-fueler, sustainable energy
The future for E-fuel is now looking brighter
E-Fuel Corp. has unveiled the final production model of the E-Fuel MicroFueler, a portable micro-refinery fuel system for consumer use. The State of California’s Department of General Services is also exploring a pilot program to test the MicroFueler with its flex-fuel vehicles. Video information of today’s press conference with California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and San Diego-based GreenHouse is available at www.GreenHouseEnergy.com.
“We are making our state a cleaner, greener and healthier place for everyone, but our goals require revolutionary technologies and low-carbon fuels,” said Schwarzenegger. “ It’s great news for our economy, our environment and our energy future.”
GreenHouse Energy, a division of GreenHouse, will be the exclusive distributor of the E-Fuel MicroFueler in California and Arizona.
GreenHouse is developing its business of distributing affordable alternative fuel by the end of 2009, said Chris Ursitti, GreenHouse CEO.
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