Serving Up An Extreme Soup Kitchen
November 17, 2011
All eyes will be glued to the TV this Friday as Extreme Makeover: Home Edition serves up a 2-hour Thanksgiving Special with the story of the Dunning Family from Delaware. An earthquake and a hurricane threatened to stop the project, but volunteers from Sussex County Delaware rallied together to build a soup kitchen. Date: Friday Read more...
Greenest cities in North America?: US and Canada Green City Index Project
July 13, 2011
Over 80% of US and Canadian citizens live in and around cities. As the hubs of national life, these cities face significant challenges and opportunities for infrastructure development and for the environment. In an ambitious effort to assess these challenges, a major ongoing research project is taking place. The U.S. and Canada Green City Index, Read more...
Pilot project to test source separated organics (SSO) program
February 25, 2011
As part of their Integrated Waste Management Plan, the towns of Quinte West, Belleville and Prince Edward County in Ontario, Canada are looking to get an organics recycling pilot project in place by this summer. (Trentonian news report: Organic recycling could begin this summer). Preliminary reports for the area indicate nearly 40% of waste generated Read more...
New Florida facility to process yard, food and wood waste to produce soil amendments
February 3, 2011
Waste Management, North America’s largest provider of waste management and integrated environmental solutions, is building a new organics facility in Okeechobee, Florida. This facility will be located next to an existing Waste Management Landfill operation, and will be the company’s first dedicated composting site. According to Tim Hawkins, market area vice president for Waste Management, Read more...
Finally, a football competition where we all win!
January 28, 2011
The Game Day Challenge, is a friendly competition amongst colleges and universities to reduce the waste produced at football games. What a great idea. Sponsored by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the competition is part of their WasteWise program, and attracted 88 major academic institutions from Alcorn State to Yale, and many schools in between. Read more...
One town finds anaerobic digestion both viable and affordable
January 26, 2011
The Massachusetts Municipal Association has reported that the town of Fairhaven, MA is on schedule to complete an anaerobic digestion project that will save money by generating heat and electricity. In an article titled “Anaerobic digestion to offset energy costs”, the MMA went on to point out that further savings were also available from lowering Read more...
Government officials in England call for increase in anaerobic digestion use
December 10, 2010
By Erica Finley Recently, government officials expressed a desire to increase the use of anaerobic digestion across England, according to Greenwise. A new document lays out the steps those officials believe need to be taken to increase energy from waste in England through this specific process. Because the U.K. produces about 100 million tons of Read more...
Canada invests $4 million in clean technology with Harvest Power
November 16, 2010
The Richmond Review last week shared a major announcement in the clean tech industry – as Natural Resource Minister Christian Paradis announced Ottawa’s pledge to invest $4 million toward Canada’s first commercial-scale project using high-solids anaerobic digestion technology to transform organic food and yard waste into energy. The project will be handled by Fraser Richmond Read more...
Harvest Power, Triple T Trucking work toward zero waste
July 8, 2010
Today, Harvest Power’s partnership with New Hampshire-based Triple T Trucking was featured in the Brattleboro Reformer. The story, by staff writer Chris Garofalo, presented plans to create an organics to energy and recycling station in the New England area that works toward a common goal of zero waste while creating renewable energy. Harvest CEO Paul Read more...
Terrain mag calls composting ‘up and coming’ industry
June 3, 2010
The Spring 2010 issue of Terrain magazine features an interesting and informative piece called Compost Confidential, which details the promising growth of composting as an industry, as well as the challenges that lie ahead. Writer Amy Kiser considers composting an up and coming industry, one that “follows on the heels of recycling as an environmentally Read more...
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