Mexico City’s Largest Landfill Closes, Creating Jobs & Energy

Jan 04, 2012 No Comments by

Mity last month shut down its Bordo Poniente landfill, the huge largest garbage collection site that over time became a 927 acre heap of trash.

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NYC Closer to Turning Sewage into Energy

Feb 15, 2011 Comments Off by

New York City is the only city in the US that never sleeps.  It is also one city that often smells, especially in the summer.  One reason is the city’s aging sewage system, to which the city’s 8 million residents contribute 1.3 billion gallons of wastewater daily. All that wastewater goes through several processes until it [...]

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Happy Bastille, Lille

Jul 14, 2009 No Comments by

It figures France should get a mention on its two hundred twentieth Bastille Day.  We Americans are always happy to pick on France, but in its own way, France has undergone an impressive energy revolution . . . without losing too many heads.   (more…)

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Going Green by Pigging Out?

Jun 02, 2009 No Comments by

Pollution from agriculture and animal husbandry are the elephants in the room that many in and out of the green movement don’t want to talk about.  But if you take a look at some of the most polluted towns in the country, they are in California’s Central Valley?  Ever drive up I-5?  Gross! Which is [...]

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