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Everyone knows that recycling is a huge part of environmental action. And everyone knows that the Americans are greatly lagging in the recycling department. I have been to cities in very forward thinking states that do not have a municipal recycling program. Europe is way ahead of the US on many environmental fronts, particularly recycling. [...]  I would have posted this sooner because I consider it major news and a major step in the right direction, but I have been on vacation for the last week, and am just now back in the swing of real life. But, enough about me, and on to said major news – after years of [...] Check out this timelapse video from a coal plant: Coal Power Plant Timelapse from Jeff Grewe on Vimeo. If you look very closely you can see the coal trains leaving the plant empty… The maker of this video claims that he did not do it to make a political statement. However, I think it makes a pretty [...] Mountaintop mining was a common occurence during the Bush administration. It was a big hope that once Obama took office this practice would be stopped. It is the act of blowing off the tops of mountains to get at the coal buried within. It is mostly practiced throughout the Appalachian Mountain region. The rubble that [...] |
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