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Operation Ivy: Dumpster Diving at Elite Colleges
Operation Ivy depicts the incredible amount of stuff students throw away at the end of the academic year at five elite colleges, Yale, Harvard, Trinity, Williams, and Wesleyan. It shows how people who live and work near the colleges react -- by dumpster diving the stuff for themselves and their families.
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Contact:
Jean Pockrus
jpockrus@wesleyan.edu
Matt Valades
mtvalades@gmail.com
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United Kingdom Talk Tuesday 22nd July2008
Tuesday's edition of my three times a week talk show.Watch
the show here on CURRENT TV on Tues, Thurs & Sats.
Today's show is dedicated to Uncle Michael Hayes.R.I.P.10th July 2008.
The excitement is building.
Sinning in advance.
Looking around in Lincolnshire.
Speaking at a funeral.
Why the dark glasses ?
Blip TV.
Congratulations Ryan.
Man From Atlantis.
A clean hospital.
Where's my cushion ?
Hi to Kayleigh, Rocky, Granite & Pebbles.Oh - I nearly forgot - Judith LOL.
Don't throw things away.
Slipping into holiday mode.
Soap problems.
Stargate.
Fish in little bowls.
Driving & mobile phones.
A plastic globe.
Electric car news from Joe.
Shall I undo another button ?
Tiny car park.
My arms.
The shopping list is ready.
Email :
chris@unitedkingdomtalk.co.uk
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DiCaprio criticised over global warming crusade
Green campaigner Leonardo DiCaprio has come under fire for his attempts to raise funds to save polar bears - because he's using reams of paper to highlight the cause.
The actor, who wrote and narrated 2007 documentary 'The 11th Hour' to draw attention to global warming, recently sent out packages to members of the public in an effort to garner support for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)'s Polar Bear S.O.S. campaign.
The package contains a one-page letter from DiCaprio; two pages from Frances Beinecke, president of the NRDC; a flyer for a free Save the Polar Bear! bag; a donation form and petition to have the animals listed as an endangered species; and a return envelope.
The star has been criticised for the waste of paper and the hypocrisy of the situation - because he helped to spearhead the national Do Not Mail Registry campaign to ban junk mail earlier this year.
According to his representative Ken Sunshine, who also works for the NRDC, DiCaprio has no regrets about the way he has gone about publicising the plight of the polar bears.
When queried about the NRDC campaign, Sunshine tells the New York Post's gossip column PageSix: "Guilty as charged!", adding that DiCaprio's "environmental commitment is unending".
Green campaigner Leonardo DiCaprio has come under fire for his attempts to raise funds to save polar bears - because he's using reams ... more -
Toyota to build Prius in US, stops truck production
"The company said Thursday it will start producing the Prius in 2010 at a plant it is building in Blue Springs, Miss. Toyota already builds a hybrid version of the Camry sedan in Kentucky, but this will be the first time the Prius, which has been on sale for more than a decade, will be built outside of Asia." -MSNBC
Toyota is also planning on temporarily stopping US production of its trucks and large SUVs because of declining demand. The plants will either temporarily close or build hybrid SUVs instead.
This is great news both for the environment and for our economy. It will ultimately result in more jobs for Americans and strengthen the "green-collar" job market. This is evidence of our economy's shift in the right direction.
What do you think? "The company said Thursday it will start producing the Prius in 2010 at a plant it is building in Blue Springs, Miss. Toyota already b... more -
Recycling in Beijing
An afternoon spent with a normal family of undocumented workers, trying to make a living recycling in Beijing.
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Half-Empty Blue Bins: Recycling the Beacon Hill Way
Beacon Hill, a neighborhood of Boston, MA, is littered with trash for collection on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Yet, recycling can only be found on the streets of this historic neighborhood on Fridays, and some bins are less than full. This pod examines recycling in Beacon Hill through the eyes of two residents and the experiences of the director. Beacon Hill, a neighborhood of Boston, MA, is littered with trash for collection on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays. Yet, recycling ... more
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Billboard Bags - Manila's massive vinyl advertisements get a second life.
Binggirl Clemente has worked in environmental advocacy in the Philippines for the past eight years. Today, she leads a project to recycle old billboards into bags backed by local NGO, the Earth Day Network. Binggirl Clemente has worked in environmental advocacy in the Philippines for the past eight years. Today, she leads a project to recy... more
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Green Electronics- we expanded on Current's story
The idea of buying greener technology is swell but what do you do with the old crap that has become obsolete (or in most cases out of fashion). Well Sony is stepping up to take out the trash.
Sony's Take Back Recycling Program is aiming to recycle one pound of product for every pound of product they sell. There is a hitch: they will only take back Sony product. Lets hope more companies follow their lead.
Other companies who strive to be green and not mean:
Tired of that outdated iPhone? If you "opted" in to Apple's recycling program at point of sale you can get rid of that hunk of junk in an eco friendly way. Apple Recycling Program.
I like to think of myself as a "futurist". I am sure at any moment DVDs will become obsolete. So I looked into chucking my LG DVD player NOW. I figure I could start a trend. Click here to find out more about LG's End-of-Life product take back program,
Kudos to AT&T because they will take back wireless phones, PDAs, accessories and batteries regardless of the manufacturer or carrier and dispose of in a positive way. It almost make me want to throw out my perfectly good phone. The idea of buying greener technology is swell but what do you do with the old crap that has become obsolete (or in most cases out of ... more -
Stylish Nokia phone made from rubbish
Nokia has decided to try their hand at a green phone, it is a growing trend so perhaps it’s time for them to jump on the bandwagon as well. Although this is still a concept design, the fact that they are trying their hand at it even is a good sign.The phone was made using old PET bottles, soda cans and car tires to show how the process of Upcycling can be used to create new, environmentally-friendly products.Hopefully we'll see something like this reach production soon. Nokia has decided to try their hand at a green phone, it is a growing trend so perhaps it’s time for them to jump on the bandwagon as ... more
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Home Depot to offer CFL recycling
One of the peskiest problems of compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) is where to dispose of them when they break or burn out, due to the small amounts of mercury that they contain.
Well, here's some good news on that front! Home Depot is announcing today that it will begin taking back old CFLs in all 1,973 of its U.S. stores. This will be the most widespread recycling program for the bulbs to date. Home Depot will accept any maker's bulbs and due to its spread across the country, this move will bring CFL recycling within reach of most homes. Home Depot estimates that 75% of the nation's home are within 10 miles of a store.
Kudos to Home Depot for doing this.
by Patricia Mayville-Cox
http://www.greendaily.com/2008/06/24/home-depot-to-offe...
I think this is great! One of the peskiest problems of compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs) is where to dispose of them when they break or burn out, due to the s... more -
Tijuana Woman Invents Recycling Machine to Improve Scavengers' Lives
Think recycling is a good idea? Think of it how good Europe, the US and other countries/continents have had it, when within miles of the US border, most people have never been exposed to a recycling system or culture ever in their lives, and it all goes to one place: the landfill. Until now.
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One step at a time.
TIJUANA, BC MEX. In Tijuana, a new machine is poised to help clean up some of the city’s social and environmental problems. A Tijuana teenager dreamed up the contraption ten years ago. She’s since dedicated her life to making the project a reality. KPBS Border Reporter Amy Isackson has the story.
As a teenager, growing up in Tijuana, Miroslava Enciso Limon always wanted to be a firefighter. But her dream changed when her high school teacher assigned her to visit Tijuana’s dump.City officials eventually hope to recycle 60-percent of Tijuana’s trash.
City dump trucks back up to Enciso’s recycling machine. It’s up and running at a facility on Tijuana’s east side. The machine is not especially high tech.
Blades rip open the garbage bags and spill the contents onto a conveyor belt. At times, the stench makes your eyes water.
About thirty workers dressed in navy coveralls, face masks and latex gloves sort the trash. All of them used to be scavengers at the dump. New employee, Luisa Marquez says it was much harder when she was a scavenger.
Marquez (translated): Before, I left at 4 a.m, before the sun came up because it’d get too hot….We’d have to open the bags. We’d get dirty. We’d get covered in food. We didn’t have uniforms. We didn’t have protection or a roof.
The machine’s inventor, Enciso, says she could have automated the process more. But the idea is to employ as many scavengers from the dump as possible -- about 200 when the machine is fully operational.
City officials eventually hope to recycle 60-percent of Tijuana’s trash. Think recycling is a good idea? Think of it how good Europe, the US and other countries/continents have had it, when within miles of t... more -
Super Swank Chairs Made From Car Intertube
Tire inner tubes were used to form a comfortable seating surface on this anything-but-ordinary, steel framed chair.
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Used condoms recycled into hair bands in China
Condoms, meant for safeguarding a person from sexually transmitted disease, have become a potential threat for the same, in China. Local markets in the country’s Guangdong province are flooded with rubber hair bands made out of recycled condoms...
China’s recycling tradition is turning into a nightmare. To everyone’s horror, local markets and beauty saloons in southern China’s Guangdong province are flooded with rubber hair bands made out of recycled condoms.
Reportedly, a bag of 10 hair ties costs about 25 fens (three cents) at local markets and bazaars much cheaper than others in the market, accounting for their popularity.
While condoms are meant to safeguard a person from sexually transmitted diseases, hair bands made out of used condoms are a potential threat to spread those sexually-transmitted diseases.
Despite the fact that used condoms are being recycled, potentially it could still contain some amount of dangerous bacteria and viruses. Using hair bands made out of it is certainly life-threatening.
Health officials and local doctors opined that in every possibility, women and young girls could be infected with AIDS, genital warts or other skin related diseases if they casually hold the hair bands in their mouths while working their plaits. Condoms, meant for safeguarding a person from sexually transmitted disease, have become a potential threat for the same, in China. Loc... more -
Turning billboards into bags
Binggirl Clemente promotes environmentalism and boosts local economy with her new project - using the cloth from used billboards to create bags. She has created jobs and public awareness of the environment with a simple idea.
Having been to Metro Manila and the surrounding areas, I admire that Clemente's one action can do so much for the Filipino people. Binggirl Clemente promotes environmentalism and boosts local economy with her new project - using the cloth from used billboards to cr... more -
Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin protects planet
The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin tribal school, the College of Menominee Nation and elders organized numerous projects for the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
The projects included recycling four tons of electronic waste, collecting 24 pounds of unwanted pharmaceuticals, students cleaned up litter across the reservation and covered gang graffiti with Native American art. The Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin tribal school, the College of Menominee Nation and elders organized numerous projects for the ... more -
Hancock, MI June 21 e-waste collection for NW Upper Peninsula: EPA Challenge, Eart...
The Western Upper Peninsula Electronics Recycling Program and the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) provide an environmentally and economically sound solution to disposing of household electronic waste.
Residents of Baraga, Gogebic, Houghton, Keweenaw, and Ontonagon Counties may bring their items to e-waste collection sites on the specified collection dates in their area.
The initiative received grants and other assistance from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
The collection is part of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge involving over 100 projects in eight states across the Great Lakes Basin.
More than a dozen previous collections since 2005 have garnered nearly 48 tons of e-waste from over 850 participants.
2005: 8 collections, 26.5 tons
2006: 4 collections, 15 tons
2007: 1 collection, 6.25 tons
Called e-waste, electronics waste includes old /broken computers, cell phones, and TVs.
The collection for Houghton and Keweenaw counties will be June 21 from 9 a.m. to noon at the health department in Hancock.
An e-waste collection will be held in Baraga County on July 12 from 10 a.m. to noon at a site to be announced.
Collection events for other Copper Country counties will be announced in the future.
The cost to drop off e-waste is 10 cents per pound.
The collection will accept a wide range of e-waste including cell phones, computer and related equipment like laptops, monitors, towers aka central processing units, printers, scanners, keyboards and computer mice
Other e-waste accepted includes stereo equipment, televisions, VCR and DVD players, copiers, cordless telephones, fax machines, fluorescent light bulbs that are 4 to 8 feet in length, microwave ovens and batteries including alkaline, nickel cadmium, lead acid, lithium, mercury.
It's estimate that between 1997 and 2007, nearly 500 million personal computers became obsolete. That's almost 2 computers for every person in the United States.
TV's and computer monitors contain an average of 4 pounds of lead and other toxins.
According to Closing the Circle News, the manufacture of one computer consumes 529 pounds of fossil fuels, 49 pounds of chemicals, and 3,307 pounds of water.
The EPA says nearly 250 million computers will become obsolete nationwide in the next five years.
For additional info contact the Western Upper Peninsula Electronics Recycling Program or RSVP at 906-482-7382.
The goal of the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was the collecting and recycling of one million pounds of electronics (e-Waste) plus the collection and proper disposal of one million pills. The goals were exceeded by 500 percent.
The Earth Healing Initiative assisted some challenge organizers with interfaith liaisons to volunteer and encourage members of local churches/temples to participate in the Earth Day events in their area.
This video on the projects in the EPA Challenge was made possible by a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency; the EPA's Region 5 office and the EPA Great Lakes National Program Office in Chicago, with the non-profit Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative in Marquette, MI.
The EHI involves American Indian tribes and a coalition of churches, synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal, protect and defend the environment.
I’m Greg Peterson, Earth Healing TV
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Western U.P. District Health Department
http://www.wupdhd.org/rsvp/e-waste.html
RSVP
http://www.wupdhd.org/rsvp/index.html
EPA Region 5 Office Chicago
http://www.epa.gov/region5
Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative
http://www.EarthHealingInitiative.org
Cedar Tree Institute
http://www.CedarTreeInstitute.org
Interfaith graphics by Justice St. Rain (Baha'i) of Interfaith Resources - Special Ideas website:
http://www.interfaithresources.com
1-800-326-1197
1-847-733-3559 The Western Upper Peninsula Electronics Recycling Program and the Retired & Senior Volunteer Program (RSVP) provide an env... more -
Earth Healing founder, Lutheran Bishop, Zen Buddhist priest: Start interfaith envi...
The founder of two interfaith environment groups is often asked by others to explain the best way to start effective interfaith groups in their own community.
Along the shores of Lake Superior, creating interfaith environmental groups was discussed by leaders of the Earth Healing Initiative and the Upper Peninsula Earth Keeper Initiative, both based in Marquette, Michigan.
The non-profit Earth Healing Initiative provided interfaith volunteers and participants top numerous cities during the EPA Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge.
The challenge recycled of millions of pounds of electronics and properly disposed millions of pills and other meds in April 2008 from over 100 projects across eight states that make up the Great Lakes Basin.
This warm day in May 2008 produced ripples in unusually calm Lake Superior as wildlife heralded spring in the background. A perfect serene setting to discuss interfaith environment work and how it can be created in other areas.
EHI founder Rev. Jon Magnuson co-founded the Earth Keeper Initiative that started when nine northern Michigan faith leaders signed the Earth Keeper Covenant in 2004.
The bishops and other faith leaders pledged to reach out to Native Americans and actively participate in interfaith environment projects.
This video includes thoughts of Rev. Jon Magnuson, director of Lutheran Campus Ministry (LCM) at Northern Michigan University (NMU) in Marquette, MI; and Rev. Tesshin Paul Lehmberg, head priest of Lake Superior Zendo, a Marquette Zen Buddhist temple; and Lutheran Bishop Thomas A. Skrenes of the Northern Great Lakes Synod (NGLS) of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA).
Rev. Lehmberg and Bishop Skrenes were among the nine original signers of the Earth Keeper Covenant.
The non-profit Cedar Tree Institute (CTI) co-founded the interfaith Earth Keeper Initiative in Michigan's Upper Peninsula that works closely with ten faith traditions on a wide range of environment projects that include college students, at-risk teens, American Indian tribes and others.
Rev. Magnuson is CTI executive director.
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The CTI Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative is developing relationshipS with the same faith communities across the Great lakes.
The faith communities include Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, Presbyterian, United Methodist Church, Unitarian Universalist, Baha'i, Jewish, The Religious Society of Friends (commonly known as the Quakers) and Zen Buddhist.
The EHI assisted challenge organizers by offering interfaith liaisons to volunteer and encourage members of local churches/temples to participate in the Earth Day events in their area.
This video on the projects connected to the Great Lakes 2008 Earth Day Challenge was made possible by a grant from the US Environmental Protection Agency in collaboration with the EPA's Region 5 office in Chicago the EPA Great Lakes national Program Office - also in Chicago - with the non-profit interfaith EHI in Marquette, Michigan.
The Earth Healing Initiative involves American Indian tribes and "a coalition of churches synagogues and other faith traditions joining together to heal protect and defend the environment" said Rev. Magnuson, Earth Healing founder.
The next project during the summer of 2008 involves encouraging bee and butterfly pollenization through means that include creating habitat thanks to help from at-risk teens and American Indian tribes. The pollen project is important because billions of bees have died prematurely across the country and the problem has become alarming in the Midwest. More on this project in the near future.
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Interfaith Earth Healing Initiative
http://www.EarthHealingInitiative.org
EPA Region 5 Office in Chicago
http://www.epa.gov/region5
Cedar Tree Institute
http://www.CedarTreeInstitute.org
The Lake Superior Interfaith Communication Network
http://www.lakesuperiorinterfaith.com
ELCA Northern Great Lakes Synod
http://www.nglsynod.org
ELCA:
http://www.elca.org The founder of two interfaith environment groups is often asked by others to explain the best way to start effective interfaith groups... more -
Litter into Literature rev
Eloisa Cartonera is an independent book publisher where Buenos Aires’ cartoneros can get a good deal on cardboard and contribute to great art as well. Eloisa Cartonera is an independent book publisher where Buenos Aires’ cartoneros can get a good deal on cardboard and contribute to gr... more
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Plastic bags - just say "No!"
20 million Australians currently use around 5 billion plastic check-out bags every year.
That so few people can use so much plastic says a lot about our wasteful habits. A person's use of a plastic check-out bag can be counted in minutes - however long it takes to get groceries from the shops to their homes. These bags, however, can last for hundreds of years.
Combine the growing number of plastic bags used every year with the time it takes for them to break down and you have a major environmental problem.
They end up blocking drains and trapping birds. When eaten they kill livestock.
In the marine environment, plastic bag litter is lethal, killing thousands of whales, turtles and other sea life every year. 20 million Australians currently use around 5 billion plastic check-out bags every year. ... more -
Sweden turning sewage into a gasoline substitute
"Taking a road trip? Remember to visit the toilet first. This city is among dozens of municipalities in Sweden with facilities that transform sewage waste into enough biogas to run thousands of cars and buses." "Taking a road trip? Remember to visit the toilet first. This city is among dozens of municipalities in Sweden with facilities that tr... more
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