Twenty years ago, the Combe Fill North Landfill in Mount Olive Township, New Jersey, was a Superfund site. Now, it’s the largest landfill solar project in North America. The 25.6 megawatt solar farm, which was completed Friday, is just one example of an innovative trend turning symptoms of throwaway culture into sites for generating renewable […]
No matter what the occasion, here’s how to throw a holiday party that’s both festive and better for the planet.
Certain metals are essential to producing renewable energy products, and tellurium (Te) is one that is becoming more widely used in the manufacturing of photovoltaic cells for solar panels.
One green technology that has gotten increased attention as the energy and climate crises converge is the heat pump. Heat pumps are a device that either warms or cools a space not by generating heat like a furnace but by using electricity to transfer hot air to cool areas and vice versa. They are energy […]
One of the main dangers of plastics is the harm that their production and incineration can do to the health of the people who live nearby. Plastics plants are one of the main factors polluting the air of Louisiana’s Cancer Alley, for example. Now, a group of U.S. lawmakers are seeking to address this environmental […]
If you throw away used electronic devices, make sure there are no lithium-ion batteries hiding within them.
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