Green jobs are proving to be an economic lynchpin, in spite of a traditionally hands-off public policy, says a new report Danny Bradbury, BusinessGreen Clean energy economy jobs in the US grew by 9.1 per cent between 1998 and 2007, compared to an overall job growth rate of just 3.7 per cent, according to a [...]

Officials, activists worry about discarded TVs piling up after digital switch By Meredith Cohn The pile of televisions waiting for recycling at the Eastern Sanitation Yard in Baltimore – many of them wrapped in wood paneling popular in decades past – is likely to get larger today when the nation completes its switch to digital [...]

Green Parent Chicago If you have jeans that your children have outgrown, pairs that are too worn, ripped, stained or damaged to swap, consider having them recycled into green home insulation and help set a world record too. National Geographic Kids is hoping to set a Guinness World Record of largest collection of clothes to [...]

Throwing orange peels, coffee grounds and grease-stained pizza boxes in the trash will be against the law in San Francisco, and could even lead to a fine.

Morning Edition, NPR A severe drought out West continues to threaten farms, fish, and water supplies to nearly everyone. Tighter water restrictions went into effect this month in much of Southern California, and the federal government issued a directive last week that could cut water delivery to farmers and residents in the state by 7 [...]

From Environmental Leader Plastic bags, which choke marine life, should be banned or phased out rapidly, says Achim Steiner, executive director of the U.N. Environment Programme (UNEP). UNEP released a report that identifies plastic as the most pervasive form of ocean litter. The report’s findings reveal that despite several international, regional and national efforts to [...]

ROCKVILLE, MD – Goodwill Industries International and Dell are expanding Reconnect, a free drop-off program for consumers who want to responsibly recycle any brand of unwanted computer equipment. The program now includes 451 new donation sites in seven statewide programs – Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, New Mexico, Oklahoma and West Virginia. The program has also [...]

Strictly Anything First of all, batteries are a simple mechanism, which can be made out of almost anything that can produce the specified chemical reaction. For example, you can make a lithium battery out of potatoes or lemons. The trick is that these vegetables and fruits contain liquids that are based on ions, and the [...]

By Leora Broydo Vestel To recycle, or not to recycle? That may no longer be a matter of debate in San Francisco, where a new mandatory recycling and composting law is poised for approval. The ordinance, which will be considered by the city’s Board of Supervisors on Tuesday, would require residential and commercial building owners [...]

By Megan Treacy Solar-powered trash compactors called BigBellys are being installed along Philadelphia’s sidewalks. The new bins are powered completely by the sun and hold eight times as much waste as a typical city trash can. The city is installing 500 of the compactors by July and 210 of them will include separate recycling bins. [...]

By About.com:Laundry North Carolina has become of the first states to require recycling of all plastic containers. Beginning October 1, rigid plastic containers such as soda and water bottles, milk jugs and laundry detergent bottles can no longer be discarded in non-recyclable waste bins.”There’s a huge environmental payoff, but what made this bill so attractive [...]

By EarthTalk (HealthNewsDigest.com) – A typical mattress is a 23 cubic foot assembly of steel, wood, cotton and polyurethane foam. Given this wide range of materials, mattresses have typically been difficult to recycle-and still most municipal recycling facilities won’t offer to do it for you. But along with increasing public concerns about the environment-and a [...]