Are you going to the Austin Broadband Communities Conference this spring? If you plan on attending the April 5 – 7 event, you may want...
The best way to defeat proposed incinerators has proven itself once again: community organizing. The Maryland State Department of the Environment pulled the permit on...
In 2013, 52% of all African-Americans living in Michigan had their voting rights taken away by Emergency Managers, compared to only 2% of whites. In November...
The Reuse People of America (TRP), the national non-profit network of building deconstruction enterprises that operate as joint ventures with both for profit and nonprofit...
Scarborough, is a district within the city of Toronto, Ontario, Canada with a population of 625,000 people. Recently, one thousand residents of Mayfair on the...
The founding fathers minced no words about their distrust of the masses. Our first President, John Adams warned, “Democracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy…”...
Introduction In the past several months, journalists in major publications such as Forbes, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, the New York Times and Mother...
On the 50th Anniversary of the founding of the National Endowment for the Humanities, Richard H. Brodhead argues the New Deal made possible the NEH...
On March 3rd Honduran Goldman Prize winner Berta Cáceres was assassinated because of the stunning victories she achieved with and on behalf of indigenous people. ...
No big surprise here! A survey of mills indicates that quality of one-bin materials are inferior. In North America, a survey of mills’ recovered paper...
We have been reporting on these developments in these cities for the past few months. Within hours of each other the two proposed facilities were...
Maryland House Bill 743 – Yard Waste and Food Residuals Diversion and Infrastructure Task Force, sponsored by Delegate Shane Robinson (District 39), would create a Task...
The national average recycling rate has been holding at just under 35 percent for the past five years, after rapid growth in the 1990s and...
Energy storage is the “next charge” for distributed renewable energy, and the small town of Minster, OH, provides a powerful illustration. Committed to building a...
The decline in oil prices and its consequences for recycling as reported recently by The New York Times is not being seen everywhere. Programs and...