Get Money for Recycling. Looking for some spare change?
With the many companies cropping up that offer cash or services in exchange for your used goods, it’s time to start thinking of recycling as the new couch cushions. With a little effort, everything from books to cookie wrappers can be traded in for goods or cash. Here are several ideas to help you responsibly recycle and make a little money at the same time. Glass bottles and aluminum cans In states with bottle bills, you can redeem many of the cans and bottles you buy for cash, usually 5-10 cents a bottle. If you don’t have a container deposit law in your state, check out the Container Recycling Institute’s Bottle Bill Toolkit for tips on lobbying for one. E-waste Because of the materials used to make electronics such as lead, mercury and brominated flame retardants, it is important to keep as much of the estimated 2.5 million-plus tons of e-waste out of the waste stream. BuyMyTronics will do just what the name implies.
Books, CDs and DVDs Clothing Trash to Cash. Bottle Bill Toolkit. Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources - Find Out How They Work Here. Infographic: The idea of a climate change hoax makes no $)%*@ sense. Home — Climate Interactive.
Al Gore's "Inconvenient Truth" Movie: Fact or Hype? Updated May 25, 2006 The message in An Inconvenient Truth, the new movie starring former U.S.
Vice President Al Gore, is clear: Humans are causing global warming, and the effects are devastating. Most scientists agree that the Earth is heating up, due primarily to an atmospheric increase in carbon dioxide caused mainly by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal and petroleum. But how accurate are some of the scientific claims made in the documentary? In an attemp to clear the air, National Geographic News checked in with Eric Steig, an earth scientist at the University of Washington in Seattle, who saw An Inconvenient Truth at a preview screening.
He says the documentary handles the science well. "I was looking for errors," he said. "But nothing much struck me as overblown or wrong. " Claim: According to the film, the number of Category 4 and Category 5 hurricanes has almost doubled in the last year. "This is true," Steig said.
(Read "Is Global Warming Making Hurricanes Worse? ") Vital Signs of the Planet. Go Green Slogans. Green random, technological, architectural and edible stuff. Third-World Wind Power: First Look. Energy Seed by Sungwoo Park & Sunhee Kim. Trashing Batteries for Brighter Sidewalks We all know alkaline batteries are really bad for the environment if you don’t dispose of them properly.
The right thing to do is send them to special recycling centers but hundreds of tons end up in landfills where their toxic innards seep into the earth. Perhaps a good solution is the Energy Seed, an LED lamp post powered by trashed alkaline batteries. The idea is to encourage people to throw their batteries away into the Energy Seed. There’s a slot for nearly every size battery. Of course once the bins are full, we’re left with the same original problem. Designer: Sungwoo Park & Sunhee Kim. LUNA RING: Solar Energy from the Moon. Japan’s ongoing Fukushima Daiichi nuclear crisis has spawned some rapid-fire developments for future energy production.
This weekend, plans to initiate the compulsory installation of solar energy panels on every building in the country by 2030 were announced, along with a proposed plan that promises to be the largest public infrastructure in human history: the LUNA RING. Shimizu Corporation construction firm’s research branch, CSP, unveiled a long-term planning project to install a belt of photovoltaic panels across the surface of the Moon. Power gathered from the 13,000 terrawatts of continuous solar energy the Moon’s surface receives daily would be beamed back to an Earth-based receiving station via microwave or laser transmission, where it would then be used to power public offices, hospitals and schools across the globe. For more about LUNA RING and details about the proposed technology, check out the Shimizu’s Dream page. [source 1, 2] [image 1, 2, 3]
Stapleless Paper by Sherwood Forlee. A Little Bit of College Ruled Genius By our friend and returning Yanko champion, Sherwood Forlee.
Check out the simplicity. Just punch out the corner, make a cut or two, fold back, and POW! You are green. You are sooo green. Get out there and kick-start the economy! That Forlee, always thinking with his heart. Visit his portfolio or click below to see the other things by SF that have been featured on Yanko Design. Designer: Sherwood Forlee. Confounding climate change - Climate Change Political and Editorial Cartoons. Climate change opposition's last croak - Climate Change Political and Editorial Cartoons. Greensburg: Stronger, Better, Greener! — City of Greensburg, Kansas.