• Canadian Incineration Presentation

    Report on incin­er­a­tor pre­sen­ta­tion before con­fer­ence of Cana­di­an munic­i­pal offi­cialsby Mike Ewall, Ener­gy Jus­tice Net­work & Zero Waste Canada On Feb 12th, 2015, I pre­sent­ed at the Fed­er­a­tion of Cana­di­an Munic­i­pal­i­ties’ Sus­tain­able Com­mu­ni­ties Con­fer­ence in Lon­don, Ontario.  It was the first time they held a pan­el to present both sides of a polar­ized issue.  The…

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  • WASTE TO WEALTH

    RSVP here WASTE TO WEALTH: BRINGING RECYCLING AND COMPOSTING JOBS TO BALTIMORE   Wed, March 11th, 2015 7pm – 9pm Bal­ti­more City Com­mu­ni­ty College 2901 Lib­er­ty Heights Ave, Bal­ti­more, MD 21215 (map) The Waste to Wealth = Green Jobs event is being held to present the poten­tial for devel­op­ing small minor­i­ty-owned com­pa­nies in the reuse, recy­cling and…

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  • One Bin for All?

    - by Melanie Scrug­gs, Texas Cam­paign for the Environment Right now, the City of Hous­ton is expand­ing its two-bin or “sin­gle-stream” recy­cling pro­gram to final­ly cov­er all the near­ly 350,000 homes that it ser­vices. As an avid zero waster, you may be think­ing two things: 1. It is fan­tas­tic that Hous­to­ni­ans final­ly have access to a…

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  • Green Crony Capitalism: Oregon’s Governor and the Grifter(s)

    - by Michael Don­nel­ly, Feb­ru­ary 13, 2015, Salem News Oregon’s Gov­er­nor-for-Life John Kitzhaber, 68, resigned Fri­day the 13th. His res­ig­na­tion let­ter was the usu­al lawyer­ly-parsed, blame-the-medi­a/­take no respon­si­bil­i­ty sham we’re used to seeing.  He had been gov­er­nor from 1995–2003 and again from 2011 until now.  The basic alle­ga­tions which forced the rest of the state’s Demo­c­ra­t­ic Par­ty…

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  • Out of the Garbage Can and Into the Fire

    - by Mike Ewall So-called “waste-to-ener­gy” (WTE) is usu­al­ly a euphemism for trash incin­er­a­tion, dis­pos­ing of waste while mak­ing mod­est amounts of elec­tric­i­ty and some­times steam for heat­ing pur­pos­es. Now, waste-to-fuels (WTF?) — turn­ing waste into liq­uid fuels for trans­porta­tion — is start­ing to emerge as a sub­set of WTE. Not­ing their acronym prob­lem, the indus­try has…

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  • Zero Waste to Landfill: How Incinerators Get Promoted

    - by Car­o­line Eader The incin­er­a­tor indus­try pro­motes a false belief that the only choic­es we have in han­dling our waste is to either burn it for ener­gy or to bury it in a land­fill. The exis­tence of what is known as a “waste-to-ener­gy” (WTE) facil­i­ty does not elim­i­nate the need for a land­fill. First, 10%…

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  • Biofuels Company Won’t Pay State of Mississippi After Bankruptcy

    - Jan­u­ary 10, 2015, Fuel Fix Bank­rupt bio­fu­el mak­er KiOR and con­trol­ling share­hold­er Vin­od Khosla say the state of Mis­sis­sip­pi is using legal tac­tics in an attempt to squeeze mon­ey from the company. KiOR, based in Pasade­na, fired back Thurs­day at the Mis­sis­sip­pi Devel­op­ment Authority’s Decem­ber call to con­vert KiOR’s case from Chap­ter 11 reor­ga­ni­za­tion into…

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  • New Report Urges Western Governments to Reconsider Reliance on Biofuels

    - by Justin Gillis, Jan­u­ary 28, 2015, New York Times West­ern gov­ern­ments have made a wrong turn in ener­gy pol­i­cy by sup­port­ing the large-scale con­ver­sion of plants into fuel and should recon­sid­er that strat­e­gy, accord­ing to a new report from a promi­nent envi­ron­men­tal think tank. Turn­ing plant mat­ter into liq­uid fuel or elec­tric­i­ty is so inef­fi­cient that the approach is…

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  • Biomass Destruction Entirely Predictable

    - by Matt Miller and Ray­mond Plouride, Feb­ru­ary 4, 2015, Chron­i­cle Herald In a Jan. 9 sto­ry about dam­age to our forests as a result of the need to feed the giant new Nova Sco­tia Pow­er bio­mass gen­er­a­tor in Port Hawkes­bury (“Bio­mass project rais­ing green con­cerns”), Asso­ciate Deputy Min­is­ter of Nat­ur­al Resources Allan Eddy sug­gest­ed that…

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  • Send Caroline to Annapolis!

    With the pas­sage of Sen­ate Bill 690 dur­ing Mary­land’s 2011 Leg­isla­tive Ses­sion, Mary­land start­ed on the path of becom­ing the Trash Cap­i­tal of the U.S. This needs to stop, and we need your help. Leg­is­la­tors need to hear from voic­es that rep­re­sent the inter­ests of Mary­land res­i­dents, not from paid lob­by­ists and state agen­cies who…

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