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Print­able PDF version Zero Waste Hier­ar­chy (short, sweet ver­sion): RedesignReduceSource Sep­a­rate: (reusables, recy­cling, com­post­ing and trash) Zero Waste Hier­ar­chy (in more detail): The land­fill man­age­ment aspects are nuanced because it’s crit­i­cal to ensure that green­house gas emis­sions from land­fills are avoid­ed, unlike how land­fills are com­mon­ly man­aged today. For a full appre­ci­a­tion of the need for…

[In May 2013, over 500 grass­roots activists sent in this sign-on let­ter to EPA about their inad­e­quate Car­bon Pol­lu­tion Stan­dards for New Pow­er Plants.] Dear EPA Admin­is­tra­tor McCarthy: Your pro­posed CO2 rule for new elec­tric gen­er­at­ing units falls short in sev­er­al ways and must be strength­ened so that it does not wors­en glob­al warm­ing and…

In just six days over the hol­i­day week­end, we got 131 groups signed on to a let­ter to Depart­ment of Ener­gy, oppos­ing bil­lions in renew­able ener­gy sub­si­dies from ben­e­fit­ing incin­er­a­tion, bio­mass and biofuels. It includ­ed about 100 grass­roots or state/regional groups from 27 states plus DC and Puer­to Rico as well as about 30 nation­al…

Zero Waste is defined as “The con­ser­va­tion of all resources by means of respon­si­ble pro­duc­tion, con­sump­tion, reuse, and recov­ery of prod­ucts, pack­ag­ing, and mate­ri­als with­out burn­ing and with no dis­charges to land, water, or air that threat­en the envi­ron­ment or human health.” It’s not a utopic idea, but a set of poli­cies and prac­tices intend­ed…

Most car­bon seques­tra­tion projects involve using the CO2 to pump into under­ground oil for­ma­tions in order to get out more oil than they’d  nor­mal­ly be able to extract.  This has some obvi­ous con­tra­dic­tions and should not be con­sid­ered car­bon seques­tra­tion, espe­cial­ly since much of that CO2 comes back up in the pro­duced oil. As this MIT…

Note to Jour­nal­ists and Activists:Incin­er­a­tors are NOT “waste-to-ener­gy” facilities Words Mean Things Any jour­nal­ist seek­ing to be accu­rate and objec­tive should nev­er call an incin­er­a­tor a “waste-to-ener­gy” facil­i­ty. Jour­nal­ists and envi­ron­men­tal­ists should not spread the con­fu­sion by repeat­ing this pub­lic rela­tions term. The term “waste-to-ener­gy incin­er­a­tor” should be replaced with sim­ply “incin­er­a­tor” or “[waste type] incin­er­a­tor”…

OBITUARY FOR DR. JUDITH H. JOHNSRUD July 1, 1931 – March 9, 2014 Judith H. John­srud of State Col­lege, PA, a high­ly-respect­ed hero to oppo­nents of nuclear ener­gy in the Unit­ed States and around the world, was born July 1, 1931, and grew up in Ham­mond, Indi­ana.  As a teenag­er Judy, as she was known to…

By Karen Uhlenhuth Decem­ber 18, 2013 Mid­west Ener­gy News Iowa is well estab­lished as a nation­al leader in wind ener­gy and bio­fu­els. And now the state is poised for seri­ous growth in solar as well. “The mar­ket is explod­ing in Iowa,” says Tim Dwight, a for­mer Iowa Hawk­eye and NFL star who has become one of his home state’s most…