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What and How is Your Community Recycling? – 3 Carts per Home – As Good as Stockton, CA?

City of Stockton offers 3 color coded wheeled carts to residents who live in single family homes, duplexes, or triplexes.

Should The US Mandate Food Waste Composting?

What if the US had different policies in place about excess food disposal? How can cleantech help to lessen the amount of organic waste in landfills?

State senator in Montana calls on Congress to eliminate reservations

Sen. Shane Morigeau, D-Missoula, who is Salish and Kootenai, said in an interview the resolution was “riddled with fallacies and misinformation” and that he felt it was aimed at continuing a legacy of “atrocious policies” from the government, which he said has not held true to the treaties that were agreed upon before Montana became a state.

What Is a 15-Minute City?

The buzzword recently popularized by urbanists describes an urban form that dominated cities prior to the rise of autocentric planning.

Harvest Thermal Delivers CO2-Based Heat Pumps With Thermal Storage To Arbitrage Electricity Rates

It has a set of components that deliver comfortable temperatures at lower costs.

A new wireless Electric Vehicle charging road is currently under construction in Germany

In a first for Germany, the vcity of Balingen is to trial a wireless charging road for public, private, and commercial electrical vehicles.

Starwood Capital Group has become one of the nation’s largest landlords in recent years and imposed some daunting rent hikes

Rising rents were a crisis for tenants. For Starwood, they were a gift.

Washington State Department of Commerce’s Innovation Clusters Accelerator in the news

This represents the beginning of significant U.S. investment in what much of the world refers to as innovation clusters; jump starting collaboration between the private sector, government, academic institutions, and other key partners to drive innovation and economic growth in semiconductors and other tech sectors.

60 Minutes – Recognizing and treating obesity as a disease

Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford: It’s a brain disease. 

60 Minutes – Scientists say planet in midst of sixth mass extinction, Earth’s wildlife running out of places to live

Paul Ehrlich: Too many people, too much consumption and growth mania.