San Francisco Converting Restaurant Grease to Bio-Diesel

San Francisco will become the first city to institute a program to convert "brown grease" from restaurants into bio-diesel. Mayor Gavin Newson announced the $1.2 million pilot program, which will collect about 10,000 gallons of grease a week from city-wide restaurants. This...
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Chicago Green Alley at night
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Re-inventing Urban Spaces: Green Alleys

            One of the central tenets in making sustainability work is re-imagining the way we use public urban spaces. This involves turning inefficient utilitarian spaces into urban amenities that are...
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Clean Development Mechanism Investors and Recipients
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High Potential for CDM Markets in Africa

The Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) program, developed under the Kyoto Protocol, is a method of combating climate change by encouraging sustainable development through market incentives.  It is essentially a...
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Old Growth Forest
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Pacific Northwest Trees Dying as Climate Warms

A new study conducted over a 50 year period in the coniferous forests of the American West, reports that forest trees are dying at a rate twice as fast as they were 17 years ago. The scientists are blaming this...
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Ecological Footprint vs. China GDP-Photo-01
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Approaches to Conservation in China

There are sufficient reasons why China gets a bad reputation in regards to its environmental policy, yet there is cause to be optimistic about the future of ecological conservation in China.  Professor Lu...
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opinion by ebekins | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago
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