http://www.greenhq.net/global-warming-news.html Up-to-date news and information about global warming, causes and effects of climate change, and what you can do to help turn around this international crisis. en-us Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:54:10 -0500 Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:54:10 -0500 Easy Blogs ( http://www.easyblogs.com ) http://www.greenhq.net/waste-management-shopping-centers.html http://www.greenhq.net/waste-management-shopping-centers.html Sun, 28 Oct 2007 09:54:10 -0500 The US Environmental Protection Agency has teamed up with the International Council of Shopping Centers to create a guide for best practices in waste management for shopping centers.Here's what they came up with:Get management support, identify incentives/disincentives,... http://www.greenhq.net/making-compost-from-kitchen-waste.html http://www.greenhq.net/making-compost-from-kitchen-waste.html Thu, 18 Oct 2007 22:34:28 -0500 Restaurants in Bay Street Emeryville urban mixed-use center have combined their "resources" in a comprehensive food waste diversion program (that's a fancy way to say "making compost").The first retail center in the California Bay Area to be certified as a... http://www.greenhq.net/eat-local.html http://www.greenhq.net/eat-local.html Sun, 7 Oct 2007 20:50:26 -0500 "Eat Local" has been in the news of late. Many are longing for the feeling of community they miss by living in an anonymous city. Others have learned the carbon footprint of their groceries is too large for their own comfort.And Macrobiotic principles state... http://www.greenhq.net/green-labeling.html http://www.greenhq.net/green-labeling.html Sun, 7 Oct 2007 19:51:45 -0500 Most Americans and Canadians see green labeling as simply a sales tactic and are hesitant to pay for such products, according to a recent study. "Consumers appear to be wary of companies who label their products as being 'green,' or environmentally friendly,"... http://www.greenhq.net/large-scale-industrial-solar.html http://www.greenhq.net/large-scale-industrial-solar.html Sat, 6 Oct 2007 11:08:35 -0500 DT Solar and Hall's Warehouse Corporation recently announced an agreement to build a 2 MW solar electric power system to supply electricity to their facility in South Plainfield, New Jersey. When completed, this project will be the largest rooftop solar electric... http://www.greenhq.net/pelosi-preventing-global-warming.html http://www.greenhq.net/pelosi-preventing-global-warming.html Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:27:35 -0500 According to the GAO (General Accounting Office), our US Capitol and its related office buildings give off 91,000 tons of CO2 each year. That's as much as 17,000 gasoline powered vehicles.House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is intent on the US Capitol becoming carbon-neutral... http://www.greenhq.net/greener-congress-vs-bush.html http://www.greenhq.net/greener-congress-vs-bush.html Sun, 30 Sep 2007 11:15:20 -0500 Attempting to reverse years of environmental neglect by the Bush administration, the US Congress has included a few green expenditures in their recently completed appropriations bills.President Bush had proposed a half billion dollar cut in the Environmental... http://www.greenhq.net/no-till-farming.html http://www.greenhq.net/no-till-farming.html Sat, 22 Sep 2007 17:06:54 -0500 No-till farming is radically different from what you're probably accustomed to seeing.All those neat rows of plants, bare ground in between, not a weed in sight.This modern sort of farming is made possible with massive amounts of petroleum products, and not... http://www.greenhq.net/electronics-computer-recycling.html http://www.greenhq.net/electronics-computer-recycling.html Tue, 11 Sep 2007 21:26:27 -0500 Sony and Waste Management have come together to create an electronics and computer recycling program. The 75 eCycling Centers are in 18 states, but mostly in California, Minnesota, Massachusetts, and Wisconsin.The Sony Take Back Recycling Program allows customers... http://www.greenhq.net/global-warming-video.html http://www.greenhq.net/global-warming-video.html Sun, 9 Sep 2007 21:53:38 -0500 I don't watch much TV, so I had only seen this global warming video once before. It is a television commercial produced by the Ad Council, an organization that always seems to come up with brilliant ways to get a message across to their targeted audience.Very...