Choosing an authentically green gift may seem daunting. But there is an ever-expanding array of options, from bike lights that don’t need batteries to planet-friendly water bottles.
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Dec 03
Green Blog: Hard Plastic Bottles, Reborn as a Bridge
Axion International has developed a process to reuse hard plastic in building materials that are strong enough to supplant steel and concrete, forgoing the trip to a landfill.
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Dec 02
Nov 18
Galactic Process
New observations by NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope are expanding astronomers’ understanding of the ways in which galaxies continuously recycle immense volumes of hydrogen gas and heavy elements. This process allows galaxies to build successive generatio…
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Nov 16
Green Blog: On Our Radar: Rerouting the Keystone XL Pipeline
State lawmakers in Nebraska will vote Tuesday on a deal with TransCanada that calls for moving the path of the controversial 1,700-mile pipeline.
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Oct 27
On Recycling, N.Y.C. Goes From Leader to Laggard
With New York City far behind cities like San Francisco, there generally is nowhere to put a plastic lunch container but a wastebasket.
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Green Blog: Disposable Chopsticks Strip Asian Forests
Each year, 3.8 million trees go into the manufacture of 57 billion disposable pairs of chopsticks in China. But awareness is growing, and some restaurants and consumers are switching to reusables.
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