Trash for Teaching
trashforteaching.org 6/24/2009 — Our Mission Education and Environmentalism through creative reuse. Trash for Teaching collects clean and safe cast-off materials from manufacturing processes (that would otherwise become trash) and repurposes them as educational resources. With those ...

Organize a Trash Pick-Up Party
planetgreen.discovery.com 7/9/2009 — Is there an area in your city that is littered with trash? From bus and train windows, I catch glimpses of a median that has trash all over it. I always think to myself, "It would be so easy for a group of people to pitch in and clean up. It would ...

Trash | Track
senseable.mit.edu 7/15/2009 — Trash Track relies on the development of smart tags, which will be attached to different types of garbage in order to track in real time each piece of waste as it traverses the city's sanitation system. The goal of the project is to reveal the ...

Tracking trash - MIT News Office
web.mit.edu 7/15/2009 — Project aims to raise awareness of how garbage impacts the environment July 15, 2009 What if we knew exactly where our trash was going and how much energy it took to make it disappear? Would it make us think twice about buying bottled water or ...

World’s Deepest Trash Can
neatorama.com 10/2/2009 — This trash can was created as an attempt to make it more fun for people to throw their waste. 72 kilos of garbage was put in the bin during one day. That is 41 kilos more than the closest standard trash bin. Link [YouTube] – via Pusha

Ask Umbra on flying less
grist.org 8/17/2009 — by Umbra Fisk Send your question to Umbra! Q. Dear Umbra, Do we really need to fly less or do we need planes that are more fuel efficient? Am I assuming correctly when I say that planes have little or no emissions standards? I didn’t see ...

The White House: taking the trash out…
alternativechannel.tv 6/29/2009 — Read this article if you want to know 1-Why we agree with the First family to start composting and 2-How you can easily do it too! Still not convinced? Read the article and leave a comment if you liked it! -The Alternative Channel Team www.alternativechannel.tv

Ask Umbra on big families
grist.org 9/9/2009 — by Umbra Fisk Send your question to Umbra! Q. Dear Umbra, I have recently become a grandmother. (Eek! Doesn’t seem like it was that long ago that I made the decision to have a child.) Though I had just one child, my daughter is pregnant ...

Bringing Light to Trash
greenupgrader.com 7/16/2009 — I'm in the market for a new desk lamp, and these lamps from Breeze Block caught my eye last week while I was browsing Etsy. Now, I fear I am becoming a bit of a repurposing cynic after looking for recycled products day in and day out, but I like these lamps. Related posts: Ironic Repurposed ...

Ask Umbra on paperback writers
grist.org 7/9/2009 — Should Danielle Steel, Tom Clancy, and other popular authors take blame for the trash they create? Or are they heroes of the reuse movement? Umbra Fisk covers the possibilities.