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EPA Picks State Capitals to Create Models of Green Design
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today committed to help the capital cities of five states pursue high quality green development that includes cleaning up and recycling vacant lands, providing greater housing and transportation choices, and reducing infrastructure and energy costs. Through its new Greening America’s Capitals program, the EPA will fund private sector experts [...]...

The US Open You Didn’t See
Read the full story at Earth911. Three years ago, the USTA took on the tall order of greening one of the largest tennis event in the world....

EPA Announces College Football Challenge
Read the full story at Earth911. The University of Georgia’s 2009 home opener against South Carolina resulted in more than 70 tons of trash. And as one study by Michigan State points out, most trash at these types of events could have been recycled or composted. This football season, colleges around the country can capitalize on their [...]...

Free webinar: How to Drive Business Value from Product and REACH Compliance
September 14, 2010 – 1 PM ET In a world of rapidly expanding regulations, including Europe’s REACH and RoHS, companies need an effective way to work with their supply chains to collect, track and analyze a vast amount of data. Among other things, companies must determine which materials or parts can be used in production and [...]...

Study: Most Dairy Antibiotics Degrade before Reaching Groundwater
Read the full story in Environmental Protection. In the first large study to track the fate of a wide range of antibiotics given to dairy cows, University of California-Davis scientists found that the drugs routinely end up on the ground and in manure lagoons, but are mostly broken down before they reach groundwater....

Biodiesel from Waste and Low-Value Feedstocks: A panel preview
Read the full story in Biodiesel Magazine. Over the past couple of years the biodiesel industry has trended toward utilizing fewer virgin oils, largely due to economic factors of depending on the more expensive refined materials, and has relied on low-value waste oils such as used cooking oil. Interest in securing and processing even lower-valued materials, [...]...

Researchers look to E. coli for biodiesel
Read the full story in Biodiesel Magazine. A team of researchers from Rutgers University and Harvard University is working with a well-known microorganism to aid in the production of biodiesel. The research, based on the E. coli microorganism, commonly associated with food poisoning, is being led by Desmond Lun, associate professor of computer science at Rutgers. [...]...

Müller Dairy to Milk Energy Savings From Data Center Overhaul
Read the full story in GreenerComputing. It is a sign of the times — and of the increasing reliance on computing power in all industries — that Müller Dairy owns not one, but two data centers. The yogurt manufacturer has teamed up with NextiraOne to overhaul and expand its existing compute facilities with an eye toward energy [...]...

USDA Publishes Organic Program Handbook
The U.S. Department of Agriculture today published the first edition of a program handbook designed for those who own, manage, or certify organic operations. Prepared by the National Organic Program (NOP), the handbook provides guidance about the national organic standards and instructions that outline best program practices. It is intended to serve as a resource [...]...

How Green Is Telecommuting?
Brian Palmer assesses the environmental impact of telecommuting in Slate’s Green Lantern....

Climate Change Assessments Review of the Processes and Procedures of the IPCC
Read the full report. Climate change is a long-term challenge that will require every nation to make decisions about how to respond. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established by the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Programme to help inform such decisions by producing comprehensive assessments of what is known about [...]...

State and Tribal Assistance Grants – Bed Bug Education/Outreach and Environmental Justice
Dates: Applications must be submitted via Grants.gov on or before on or before 5:00 PM Eastern Standard Time on Monday, October 18, 2010. If you do not have internet access, please contact the person listed as the Agency Contact in Section 7 of this document for an alternate submission option. EPA will not accept applications [...]...

X PRIZE, Govt. of India & IIT Delhi Announce Partnership to Create Global Competition to Develop Clean-Burning Cookstoves
Read the press release. The X PRIZE Foundation, an educational non-profit that designs and administers competitions with prizes of up to $30 million, the Government of India’s Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi have formed a partnership to create a global competition to develop and deploy clean and [...]...

Highly-Insulating (R-5*) Windows and Low-e Storm Windows Volume Purchase Program
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Building Technologies Program (BTP) is coordinating a volume purchase of R-5 windows, and low-e storm windows, to expand the market of these high efficiency products. Price is the principal barrier to more widespread market commercialization. The aim of this volume purchase initiative is to work with industry and potential buyers to [...]...

Free webinar: Product Stewardship You Can Use Today
Date: Thursday, September 16, 2010 Time: 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM CDT Citizens generate household hazardous wastes year round but HHW collection programs are often scheduled just a few times a year. Over the past few years several options have been created that HHW programs can use to help fill in the gaps between collection events, either [...]...

Coming soon: GLAS
Read the full post from the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative. Get ready for the fall launch of the newest resource for the Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI). Congress specifically required EPA to develop an accountability system to track this unprecedented level of funding. The Great Lakes Restoration Initiative Accountability System (GLAS) is the primary mechanism for [...]...

Local Entrepreneur Saves Trash From Landfill
Green Purpose was founded with one mission in mind: to save trash from going into landfills. Steven Rosenberg, founder of Green Purpose, describes how he began collecting trash and what he is doing to turn it into items of value for resale. You can also view it on YouTube....

Daniel Wu Infomercial for “Fresh Air” (Clean Air Network)
Hong Kong’s Clean Air Network has taken a slightly different, absolutely brilliant approach to raise awareness about air pollution. This video, starring Hong Kong film star Daniel Wu, is the result. It’s a parody of a late-night infomercial selling canned fresh air so you can breathe real air “for minutes at a time like other [...]...

Toronto collects electronics for recycling
Toronto, in collaboration with the Ontario Electronic Stewardship, is making it easier for their citizens to recycle old electronics. They’ve instituted curbside collection for single family residents and containerized collection for multi-family apartment buildings. They’ve also done a series of public service announcements featuring Chuck and Vince. These guys *really* want you to recycle your [...]...

Start the School Year with EPA’s Energy Star
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is encouraging students and their parents to support the environment by shopping for back-to-school clothes and supplies at retail stores that have earned the Energy Star label. Energy Star saves Americans energy and helps them protect the environment by avoiding greenhouse gas emissions. Energy Star labeled stores have features that [...]...

Games Recyclers Play
Via The Heap. Tired of receiving pointless Farmville and Mafia Wars updates from your Facebook friends? Want to play a game that actually benefits the world? Oceanopolis, a new Facebook app from Greenopolis, the social media subsidiary of Waste Management, may fit the bill. The game recruits players to collect recyclables on a [...]...

The Famous Greener All-Purpose Cleaner Recipe
An infomercial-style video about how to make an inexpensive all-purpose cleaner that’s better for you, better for your household and better for the environment. Brought to you by the Washington Department of Ecology....

6 global warming skeptics who changed their minds
Read the full story in The Week. Climate change doubters have just lost one of their leading lights, as writer Bjorn Lomborg calls for a worldwide carbon tax. But he’s not the first high-profile defector....

Did Smartphones Get a Green Boost in O2’s Rating Scheme?
Read the full story at GreenerComputing. O2 has today earned plaudits with the launch a major new initiative designed to rate the environmental credentials of 65 leading mobile phones and provide consumers with an easy to understand guide to which phones are greenest. The company is to be applauded for the move, which seeks to extend the [...]...

Companies Get the Basics of Green IT, But Lack Maturity
Read the full story at GreenerComputing. While awareness of green IT and energy used by a company’s computing departments are widespread, a new survey sponsored by Fujitsu found that every area of green IT could use improvement, and that green IT practices as a whole lack maturity in every corner of the globe....

Climate Corps 2010: Four Ways to Plug in PC Power Management
Read the full story at GreenBiz. My summer as an EDF Climate Corps Fellow making the business case for energy efficiency and carbon reduction at eBay Inc. has officially come to an end. Despite my uncertainty of finding low-hanging fruit in energy efficiency at an environmental leader like eBay, I found my stride and was able to [...]...

Students join forces in support of biodiesel
Read the full story in Biodiesel Magazine. A new crop of leaders is emerging in the biodiesel industry through the newly-launched campaign called the Next Generation Scientists for Biodiesel. The goal of the program is to create an open forum for college students to collaborate, network and share ideas in support of biodiesel....

Direct conversion of wet algae to biodiesel
Read the full story in Biodiesel Magazine. Researchers at the University of Michigan have published the feasibility of a two-step hydrolysis-solvolysis process to produce biodiesel directly from wet algal biomass, eliminating the need for costly biomass drying, organic solvent extraction and catalysts. The paper on the process was published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels....

Jatropha genome sequenced
Read the full story in Biodiesel Magazine. SG Biofuels Inc., a bioenergy crop developer, has partnered with Life Technologies Corp., a biotech tool provider, and the two have successfully sequenced the jatropha curcas genome. Using Life Technologies’ genome tracker, the Solid 4.0 system, the two were able to sequence the genome and the results will allow [...]...

Neighborly Borrowing, Over the Online Fence
Read the full story in the New York Times. Online start-ups are allowing people to rent out their belongings locally, for a small fee....

Call for Abstracts — International Conference on Sustainable Remediation 2011: State of the Practice
International Conference on Sustainable Remediation 2011: State of the Practice, Amherst, MA, June 1-3, 2011. The Environmental Institute at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and the U.S. EPA Office of Superfund Remediation and Technology Innovation are pleased to announce the International Conference on Sustainable Remediation 2011: State of the Practice to [...]...

Registration Now Open — 2010 National Training Conference On The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Environmental Conditions in Communities
2010 National Training Conference On The Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) and Environmental Conditions in Communities, Washington, DC, November 1-4, 2010. This year’s conference expands on previous TRI National Training conferences to include sessions on sources of other environmental data and on conditions and trends in ecological and human health that collectively [...]...

Designer Creates Dress With Recycled Wires
Read the full story in Wired. Electronic waste can sometimes find a surprising second lease on life, as designer Tina Sparkles has proved by making a dress using recycled wires....

Green Remediation Best Management Practices: Clean Fuel & Emission Technologies for Site Cleanup (EPA 542-F-10-008).
Cleanup of hazardous waste sites can involve significant consumption of gasoline, diesel, or other fuels by mobile and stationary sources. Minimizing emission of air pollutants such as greenhouse gases (GHGs) and particulate matter (PM) resulting from cleanup activities, including those needing fossil or alternative fuel, is a core element of green remediation strategies. Efforts to reduce [...]...

Webinar: TABEZ – Free E-Tool to Facilitate Writing of EPA Assessment and Cleanup Grants
TABEZ – Free E-Tool to Facilitate Writing of EPA Assessment and Cleanup Grants – September 8, 2010, 2:00PM-3:30PM EDT (18:00-19:30 GMT). TAB EZ is a FREE online tool intended to streamline and simplify the grant writing process when applying for EPA brownfields assessment and cleanup grants. The goal of TAB EZ [...]...

Historic Mercury launch pad reimagined as classroom
Read the full story at Mother Nature Network. The launch pad used by the first United States astronauts to enter orbit around Earth may soon be revived as an engineering classroom for a new generation of rocket builders, where laid-off space shuttle technicians are the teachers....

Alfred Music Publishing Unveils “Alfred Cares” Initiative
Press release received via e-mail. Some interesting stuff here. Alfred Music Publishing, the world’s largest educational music print publisher, unveils their new “Alfred Cares” initiative. To address the ever present need to reduce their carbon footprint, the new company wide system will decrease their dependence on limited global natural resources, reuse materials within the production process, [...]...

Judge rules that cuts to Stony Brook Southampton violate state law
Read the full story in the Southampton News. Note that Stony Brook Southampton is a four-year college with a curriculum that focuses on environmental sustainability. A State Supreme Court judge ruled Monday that Stony Brook University’s decision to close the dorms and slash academic programs at Stony Brook Southampton was illegal — a zero-hour development in [...]...

Bring on nature’s design firm
Read the full story in Now Toronto. Admit it, it’s been quite a summer. Epic rains flooding swaths of Pakistan and China, fires ravaging Russia, while on this continent the plague of viscous black death has seeped into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s barely capped Deepwater Horizon, its true toll unlikely ever to be fully [...]...

Public Libraries Daring to Be Different
The current issue of Public Management has a feature story about public libraries that are partnering with city governments on strategic community-wide initiatives. Two of those featured in the story are of particular interest to ENB readers. The first is Fayetteville, Arkansas’ Solar Test Bed Project. In June 2010, Fayetteville Public Library’s Solar Test Bed Project installed [...]...

Employees Losing Confidence in Companies’ Green Commitments
Read the full story at GreenBiz. As Americans’ overall environmental confidence continues to ebb and flow, their faith in their employers’ environmental responsibility has dropped to a new low, according to the monthly Green Confidence Index (www.greenconfidenceindex.com)....

The Perils of Oversimplifying CSR
Read the full story at GreenBiz. In Associate Professor Anil Karnani’s world, Corporate Social Responsibility professionals at the world’s largest companies only do two things: Propose projects that the business should already be doing because they make total financial sense, and propose projects which are financial disasters and companies should never seriously consider....

10 Ways to Make Your Message Resonate with Green Consumers
Read the full story at GreenBiz. So many businesses want to jump on the green bandwagon — but too often there’s a lot of room for improvement in the ways they focus their messaging. Effective green messaging successfully combines education with marketing. For the consumer who is already green-aware, it provides proof that your company is “walking [...]...

EPA Offers Web-Based Training on Electronic Greenhouse Gas Reporting Tool
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is offering Web-based training sessions for users of its electronic Greenhouse Gas Reporting Tool (e-GGRT), an online tool for reporting greenhouse gas emissions from large sources and suppliers under EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program. The training will provide users of the e-GGRT with information [...]...

Science Resources for Teachers
Read the full post from the Library of Congress. Keeping with the back to school theme I thought it might be helpful if I outlined some of our K-12 science material that was specifically created for teachers, students, and parents....

Science: Database Update: National Library of Medicine Adds Crude Oil and Dispersant Records to the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB)
Via ResourceShelf. From the Announcement: The National Library of Medicine (NLM) Division of Specialized Information Services has added crude oil and dispersant records to the Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB). In response to the 2010 Deep Water Horizon oil spill, the HSDB development team and the HSDB Scientific Review Panel (SRP) compiled and reviewed data for [...]...

Banks Grow Wary of Environmental Risks
Read the full story in the New York Times. Some lenders are taking a stand on practices like mining and deforestation that may be risky to their reputations....

Engaging Lifecycle of “Stuff” Lesson Plans
Students are surrounded by “stuff” – from blue jeans to the latest cell phone – in their everyday lives. With Buy, Use, Toss? A Closer Look at the Things We Buy, a comprehensive unit on consumption that is aligned with standards in all 50 U.S. states, your students will investigate [...]...

EPA’s New Fuel Efficiency Labels: Will They Help Sell Greener Cars?
Read the full post at FastCoDesign. Going car shopping has never been more complicated for someone who wants to buy a fuel-efficient vehicle. New labels touting efficiency should help end the confusion when it comes to buying electric or hybrid cars. But is it enough for the average consumer to make the move from fuel?...

Johan Rockstrom: Let the environment guide our development
Watch the TEDTalk. Human growth has strained the Earth’s resources, but as Johan Rockstrom reminds us, our advances also give us the science to recognize this and change behavior. His research has found nine “planetary boundaries” that can guide us in protecting our planet’s many overlapping ecosystems....

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