This week we join John and Mike as they interview Josh Dorfman, the “Lazy Environmentalist” who encourages people to “think smarter” about the benefits of green behavior. After having an epiphany inspired by an interesting question, Josh decided to embark on endeavors that would reduce people’s impact on the environment without great personal inconvenience or [...]

Recycling aluminum cans has paid off in a big way for Tha Wai and his family-it has built him a new home! Fort Wayne Habitat for Humanity used funds raised from their aluminum can recycling program to build Habitat’s 126th Fort Wayne area home. Habitat collects cans from over 500 businesses, churches and schools in [...]

Revitalizing a Blighted Land Parcel in the West End Section of Providence Green architect-developer inspired by London ‘s acclaimed ‘Container City’ PROVIDENCE, R.I., News Blaze The City of Providence celebrated its newest development project this week; a creative green office building on Harris Avenue on the west side ofProvidence that will be one of the [...]

By RON SEELY Wisconsin State Journal rseely@madison.com State Rep. Spencer Black, D-Madison, found plenty of justification for a proposed state electronics waste law just a few blocks from his West Side home two weeks ago. He recounted trying to drop off some old computer parts at a nearby recycling event and getting stuck — in [...]

By JENNIFER PREYSS Staff Writer Saturday, May 30, 2009 North Carolina is set to make recycling history this fall when it becomes one of the first states to ban the disposal of plastic bottle waste in traditional trash bins. Beginning Oct. 1, rigid plastic containers such as soda and water bottles, milk jugs, and laundry [...]