Blending sewage with garbage to produce fuel

A new kind of waste treatment system has been developed by Viridis Waste Control LLC, that holds the potential to improve water quality, reduce landfill usage, and to provide a large supply of renewable fuel. Both sewage and the organic matter in garbage decompose and produce methane on their own.

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Website Redesign and update.

You may have noticed that the main website is down at the moment. We have been doing a complete website redesign and upgrade. The site should be back up within a couple days. Please check back often for updates. http://therecyclebin.org Thank you for your patience.

Subscription Electric Car Sharing Service

From buildings to airports, Pairs is looking towards greening up. And now, Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoë announced last week that by the end of 2009, Parisians can expect to see about 4,000 electric cars throughout the city that will be available for rent through a sharing service called Autolib.

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Rooftop Solar PV/T System Gets 50% Operating Efficiency!

This innovative rooftop PV system has solar modules mounted on metal collector panels that channel excess heat from the modules into the building's HVAC system. The entire rooftop system, which is part photovoltaic and part thermal, generates electricity and pushes heat into the building's HVAC system, reaching total operating efficiencies of 50%.

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Pitching a Social Media Proposal

Pitching a one year social media proposal to a management team that is still in the learning stages of Web 2.0 or completely non technical.

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Michigan business to pay less for energy, residents pay more

Residential customers of Consumers Energy will see a slight increase in their monthly electricity bills starting next month, while commercial and industrial customers will pay nearly $20 million less in subsidies under a rate hike approved Tuesday by the state's top regulatory panel. sense.

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95% Of Returned Gadgets Work, Americans Don't Read Manuals

Blame it on poor usability or just not reading the frickin' manual, but it turns out that 95 percent of all returned gadgets actually work despite what customers may say or think. That's right -- of the $13.8 billion worth of returned products in 2007, only 5 percent were because gadgets were truly broken.

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Community Garden Planting Days

The planting days were a great success. Please enjoy the pictures and feel free to visit the gardens at your convienence. Feel free to weed, water, or just observe the community gardens as they grow. We are still looking for donations of marigolds, or any other natural means of pest control.

I want to send a special thanks out to Travis Potter and his friend Andy for all their help in the gardens. I also want to thank The Watervliet Fruit Exchange for their generous donation of vegetables to the senior center garden.

To Counter Google, Facebook Opens Its Code

In a bid to keep software developers in its orbit, Facebook is making its code open-source. What a great move! Facebook can only go up from here.

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