Little progress has been made recently in the area of electronic waste (“e-waste”), according to the State of Green Business 2009 report released this week by GreenBiz.com. The report states that “espite widespread discussions in boardrooms and legislatures about the dangers of e-waste, we recycled only a tiny fraction more e-waste in 2007 than the year before, even as the amount of e-waste entering...
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Bingham Canyon, Utah The Bingham Canyon Mine in Utah, one of the largest open-pit mines in the world, is more than 4 kilometers wide and 1,200 meters deep. Based on historical elevation data, the U.S. Geological Survey ranked the Bingham Canyon copper mine as the place where human activity displaced the largest volume of material in the United States during the 20th century. In open-pit mining,...
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Even as the European Union (EU) calls on the United States to cap carbon emissions and sign up for a global system of carbon trading between rich nations, various factors have fueled doubt over the effectiveness of current global carbon trading schemes. Recession Industries like steel, cement and glass may currently be polluting less, but this is mainly because they are producing less due...
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The black line shows the current coast line of the state of Florida. The map shows the impact of a 5-meter sea-level rise on Florida’s coast line, which could happen by 2100 under high-emissions scenarios, according to the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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Global Venture Capital & Private Equity Investment by Solar-Energy Technology The conventional wisdom says that the United States has fallen behind Europe in the scramble to develop new sources of clean energy. As is often the case, the conventional wisdom also appears to be wrong. While the European Union has developed a larger clean-energy economy than the United States, this competitive edge could easily...
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