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This Earth Day, Learn From A Woman Who Lives A "Zero Waste" Life
2016-04-22 11:05:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Nature World: Did you know that an average person generates 4.3 pounds of waste per day? According to Duke University's Center for Sustainability and Commerce, approximately 55 percent of 220 million tons of waste generated each year in the United States ends up in one of the over 3,500 landfills. "Using 'business-as-usual' projections, we predict that, by 2100, solid-waste generation rates will exceed 11 million tonnes per day - more than three times today's rate. With lower populations, denser, more resource-efficient...
ASHRAE Opens Registration for free webcast on net zero buildings.
2016-03-23 13:31:08| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Registration for "Making Net Zero Net Positive: Solving the Efficiency & Cost Paradox" opened as of March 21. This free webcast, scheduled for April 21, 2016 from 1–4 pm EDT and offered by ASHRAE's Chapter Technology Transfer Committee (CTTC), will feature presenters discussing technical and financial challenges in achieving net zero buildings. Presenters include David Underwood (ASHRAE), Marc Brune (PAE), Philip Macey (AIA), and Paul Torcellini (NREL).
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This New Brooklyn Grocery Is Designed For Zero Waste
2016-03-21 14:22:00| Waste Age
Fast Company In the 10-block radius around Sarah Metz's apartment in Brooklyn, there are around 50 bodegas and five or six grocery stores. None have bulk bins; like typical markets, pretty much everything you can buy comes wrapped in plastic or cardboard. read more
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Industry Reinforces Core Value Of Safety And Goal Of Zero Pipeline Incidents
2016-03-21 02:16:14| oilandgasonline Home Page
API Midstream Group Director Robin Rorick reinforced the oil and natural gas industry’s core value of safety and goal of zero incidents as the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a proposal on natural gas transmission.
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Al Gore visits Yolandas ground zero
2016-03-13 10:33:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Phillipine Star: Climate change activist and former US vice president Al Gore made a surprise visit yesterday in this city to meet the victims of Super Typhoon Yolanda, one of the strongest storms on record. Gore was accompanied by Sen. Loren Legarda, chair of the Senate committee on climate change. They were welcomed at the airport by Mayor Alfred Romualdez. Gore, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, lit candles and offered a wreath at a mass grave in Barangay Basper where around 2,000 typhoon victims were buried,...
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