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Dayplanner (Cached) 18.5.2013 Durango Herald
Meetings and EventsDurango Farmers Market, 8 a.m.-noon, First National Bank parking lot, www.durangofarmersmarket.org.La Plata Conservation District outreach informational booth for youth and landowners, 8 a.m.-4 p.m., Breen Community Center, 15300 Colorado Highway 140 in Breen, wwww.laplatacd.org,...
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No heading (Cached) 17.5.2013 Durango Herald
Meetings and EventsCity of Durango will host Mulch Mania, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. today and Saturday, old Van Dal landfill, three-quarter mile past the end of Tech Center Drive, www.durangorecycles.com, 375- 5004.Durango Kennel Club Dog Show, 9 a.m., Montezuma County Fairgrounds, 30100 U.S. Highway 160, located east of Cortez,...
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No heading 17.5.2013 Durango Herald
Meetings and EventsCity of Durango will host Mulch Mania, 9 a.m.-2 p.m. today and Saturday, old Van Dal landfill, three-quarter mile past the end of Tech Center Drive, www.durangorecycles.com, 375- 5004.Durango Kennel Club Dog Show, 9 a.m., Montezuma County Fairgrounds, 30100 U.S. Highway 160, located east of Cortez,...
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A powerful use for spoiled food 16.5.2013 LA Times: Business
A powerful use for spoiled food
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Radioactive material at Mesa County landfill raises health concern 16.5.2013 Denver Post: News: Local
Radioactive material at Mesa County landfill raises health concern
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Wisconsin: 100 million pounds of e-waste recycled 13.5.2013 Twincities.com: News

EAU CLAIRE, Wis. -- Wisconsin officials say more than 100 million pounds of electronic waste has been collected since the state began an e-waste recycling program three years ago.

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Public/Private by product networks help businesses turn waste into cash 13.5.2013 The Earth Times Online Newspaper - Health News
The examples of how industry can recycle waste stretch back through history, but now it’s urgent as resources are slim and profits sometimes slimmer. Some recent examples put into focus how waste becomes extra revenue and also how pollution is negated.
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Their Instruments May Be Garbage, but the Music Will Bring Tears to Your Eyes 13.5.2013 Mother Jones
Close your eyes and listen to Juan Manuel Chavez launch into the Prelude of Bach's Cello Suite No. 1, and you would never guess that, instead of spruce and maple, his instrument is crafted from an old oil can, a beef tenderizing tool, and a discarded pasta making device—all of it scavenged from the landfill that surrounds his home in Paraguay. Chavez is a cellist in the Landfill Harmonic Orchestra in Cateura, an Asunción slum where bottle caps, door keys, and paint cans have been given new purpose. Under the supervision of local musician Favio Chávez, these utterly impoverished kids make beautiful music on instruments constructed almost entirely out of materials reclaimed from the dump. Filmmaker and Asunción native Alejandra Nash first heard about the phenomenon back in 2009, and decided to produce a documentary about the kids—she and her co-producers are aiming for a 2014 release. She'll have plenty of support. The teaser she posted online last November ...
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EPA begins review of 16 NE Superfund sites 13.5.2013 Boston Globe: Latest
EPA begins review of 16 NE Superfund sites
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Green diary rescue: Wading out of the abstract into the practicalities of sustainability 12.5.2013 Daily Kos
Every week Daily Kos diarists write dozens of environmentally related posts. Many don't get the readership they deserve. Helping improve the odds is the motivation behind the Green Diary Rescue. In the past seven years, there have been 225 of these spotlighting more than 12,630 eco-diaries. Below are categorized links and excerpts to 72 more that appeared in the past seven days. That makes for lots of good reading during the spare moments of your weekend. [ Disclaimer: Inclusion of a diary in the rescue does not necessarily indicate my agreement with or endorsement of it.] Sustainability: The Challenge of Change —by phoenixvoice : "I don’t know of any non-lethal ways to handle wasps’ nests—but I figure that wasps are probably good pollinators. I needed a quick solution, so that the guys could get on with the work I was paying them to do. They had dealt with this problem in the past, and wasp spray was how they would handle it. So we got the wasp spray. My friend recognized the can ...
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Open-air coal-ash landfill at troubled Prairie State plant 11.5.2013 Crooks Liars
1. “ The Prairie State Energy Campus is also projected to produce 3.6 million to 4.8 million tons of toxic ash, which must be disposed. ” 2. “ The 1,600 MW plant would generate thousands of tons of coal ash, which includes toxins like arsenic, mercury, and cadmium… [the ash landfill will ] ultimately contain a 250-foot high pile of coal ash sitting on flat farmland… ‘We’ve heard complaints from people up to a mile away about ash hitting the side of the house and respiratory irritation.’” 3. So far as I’ve been able to tell, almost all of the environmental review related to permitting the landfill examined water quality issues. But see that red spot in Illinois, to the east and south of St. Louis, MO? According to the map, that red spot indicates the highest frequency of tornado incidence in the country. And the Prairie State ash heap – dry ash sprayed down with a veneer of water to limit dust – sits smack in the middle that red spot. Smack in the middle of tornado alley… How will ...
EnergySolutions takes another step toward private status 10.5.2013 Salt Lake Tribune
the Salt Lake Tribune Published May 9, 2013 05:50PM MDT EnergySolutions, Inc. expects to see its stock delisted from the New York Stock Exchange on or about May 24, now that the Salt Lake City company’s merger with Energy Capital Partners II LLC has been approved by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Listed since 2007 as ES, the nuclear waste company already has received shareholder approval for the move to private hands, as well as the blessing of authorities in Utah and the other states where it has operations. The company owns and operates a... ...
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Salvation Army Collects Students’ Discarded Items 9.5.2013 WCCO: National
(credit: Salvation Army)The University of Minnesota is partnering with the Salvation Army to recycle student furniture and other items discarded curbside at the beginning and end of each semester.
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Studios donating film set materials to Habitat for Humanity 8.5.2013 LA Times: Business
Studios donating film set materials to Habitat for Humanity
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Environmental groups slam plan to allow more incinerators in Massachusetts 8.5.2013 Boston Globe: Massachusetts
Environmental groups slam plan to allow more incinerators in Massachusetts
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Letters: New York Expands Its Recycling Bin 4.5.2013 NY Times: Editorials
Letters: New York Expands Its Recycling Bin
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Mom who killed, tossed infant in the trash, warned he could end up in a casket 4.5.2013 Headlines: All Headlines
Torrey Brown Jr. was wearing a yellow onesie when they found him.It was the outfit his mother had dressed her son in two months earlier, the same day she smothered the 7-month-old and stuffed
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Investigators sharpen focus on Boston bombing suspect’s widow 4.5.2013 Washington Post
Federal law enforcement officials are sharpening their focus on the widow of the dead suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings after finding al-Qaeda’s Inspire magazine and other radical Islamist material on her computer, according to law enforcement officials. ...
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US authorities search several sites in Dartmouth as part of Boston Marathon bombing investigation 3.5.2013 Boston Globe: Massachusetts
US authorities search several sites in Dartmouth as part of Boston Marathon bombing investigation
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Conn. bill creates mattress recycling program 3.5.2013 Boston Globe: Latest
Conn. bill creates mattress recycling program
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