Results for keyword: waste
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Did the Park Service bow to pressure from Coca Cola on its bottle ban?
A former Grand Canyon National Park superintendent believes that corporate pressure may have undermined a proposed ban on disposable water bottles in the park.
by Nathan Rice, Dec 11, 2011 -
Nuclear crossroads
Even as the federal government pushes for more nuclear power plants and nuclear weapons, cleanup lags far behind on the West’s most contaminated nuclear sites.
by Marty Durlin, Apr 28, 2008 -
A message to our grandchildren
Environmental pioneer Stewart Udall and his wife, Lee, ask their grandchildren to be “steadfast enemies of waste.”
by Stewart and Lee Udall, Mar 31, 2008 -
How to be #1 in the world and still be a loser
Giles Slade’s new book, Made to Break: Technology and Obsolescence in America, is a fascinating intellectual history of how marketers demolished the American tradition of thrift.
by Matt Jenkins, Jan 22, 2007 -
Deciphering humanity's hardware
Infrastructure: A Field Guide to the Industrial Landscape by Brian Hayes is a wonderfully conversational explanation of everything one sees along the highway that isn’t natural
by Michelle Nijhuis, Jan 23, 2006






