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We Need Your Trash!
To members of Keep Norfolk Beautiful: We need your trash. Examples include plastic caps of all sizes (from bottles and jugs, down to lip balm and mini-juices), plastic berry baskets, buttons, gasket scraps, flexible plastic tubing, corks, textiles, etc. These will be used in dozens of ways to help teachers educate our kids in the [...]
MIT Chasing Down Phantom Traffic Jams
From Wired.com – MIT Chasing Down Phantom Traffic Jams MIT mathematicians have developed a model that aims to explain phantom traffic jams – those backups which occur for no apparent reason – in the hope engineers could design build better roads to minimize the odds of them happening. Very cool, smart guys. Can you please [...]
Green Isn’t Everything – Good intentions don’t always drive purchasing picks
In a story that Adweek ran earlier this week, shoppers indicated that while green sentiments are important, those sentiments do not carry through to their wallets. What does this mean to green-product advertisers? Are we not doing a good job of conveying the benefits of green products? Or are the green products just not available [...]
Earth Day eCycle Event in Norfolk
Missed the Norfolk Electronics Recycling Day? EARTH DAY eCYCLE EVENT Bringing back this popular event again, Keep Norfolk Beautiful will be hosting an eCycling event during their celebrations on May 3rd from 12:00pm to 4:00pm. This event is open to all Hampton Roads residents. Contact Susan Ash at the Ernie Morgan Center for more details. A list [...]
Electronics Recycling from our Friends at Keep Norfolk Beautiful
NEW THIS YEAR! Norfolk residents are also invited to bring their documents to the Saturday event for shredding! This service is offered for free by Cintas, who will shred the documents on-site. All shredded material will be recycled. Shredding services available Saturday only at the WHRO Studios drop-off site. Plug Into Electronics Recycling! Saturday, April [...]
Sobering Facts on the World’s Wealth & Health
The Miniature Earth If we could turn the population of the earth into a small community of 100 people, keeping the same proportions we have today, it would look something like this.
Going Green, SMB-style
Can small-to-medium size businesses really afford to go green? In keeping with this week’s theme on my blog, I decided to ask a few questions of the SMB owners again. Can you afford to go green? We all want to. We all agree going green is the hip thing to do and on most fronts [...]
Ecotricity New Energy – Ford Dagenham, London
Here’s my energy conservation post for the week. I’ll try to make sure to post at least one each week w/o getting the blog too off topic. FORD DAGENHAM, LONDON In April 2004 we completed construction of London’s first wind park at Ford Motor Company’s Dagenham site. The two 85m high wind turbines, with a [...]
Discovery buys Treehugger.com
Discovery Communications announced the acquisition of the green blog TreeHugger.com. The site will become part of Planet Green, which includes the first 24/7 eco-lifestyle TV network launching in 50 million homes in early 2008. TreeHugger.com. has 1.4 million unique monthly visitors and has served over 50 million pages. It also has an archive of 13,500 [...]
MIT’s Digital Water Pavilion
This is too cool.
2nd Annual Eco-Fiesta Invite
On Friday, May 4th, my Kiwanis Club is sponsoring the 2nd Annual Eco-Fiesta. Tickets are $25 in advance and $30 at the door. All proceeds go to the Friends of Norfolk’s Environment to help keep Norfolk beautiful! The ticket price includes all you can eat Moe’s burritos and chips and two beers / wine per [...]
Aluna: World’s First Tidal Powered Moon Clock
That’s right, the world’s first tidal powered moon clock is the proposal. Aluna measures approximately 40 meters wide and five stories high. Its superstructure is supported by steel and is clad with translucent curved glass. The Aluna project is proposing a dual-hemisphere project anchored in Australia and the United Kingdom. More info can be found [...]
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