Welcome to Eco. This section is dedicated to our many environments around the globe. Ever changing contributions, reverence and demands. Observing and managing our "home."
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Article Source: CSMonitor
Building houses with bark shingles is eye-catching and sustainable.
Asheville, N.C: The rustic bungalow near downtown Asheville is a traffic stopper. Covered in big overlapping shingles of tree bark – rather than the usual wood, brick, or stone – it looks odd, a bit like a square tree. Although the unusual house appears antique and rooted in the past, it was completed just last year.
Bark may look old-fashioned, but as a recently rediscovered and reengineered building material, it fits the profile of a modern, environmentally sustainable choice for new construction – residential or commercial, interior or exterior.
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Article Source: CNN Money
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- President Obama unveiled a program Friday that will provide $2.3 billion in tax credits for the clean energy manufacturing sector, a move aimed at creating 17,000 jobs. The funding, which comes from the $787 billion American Reinvestment and Recovery Act, has been awarded to 183 projects in 43 states, the White House announced.
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Article Source: The Christian Science Monitor
Methane gas produced in California landfills fuels garbage and recycling trucks, reducing the state's carbon emissions.
LIVERMORE, Calif.
Hundreds of trash trucks across California are rumbling down city streets using clean fuel made from a dirty source: garbage.
The fuel is derived from rotting refuse that San Francisco and Oakland residents and businesses have been discarding in the Altamont landfill since 1980. Since November, the methane gas created from decaying detritus at the 240-acre landfill has been sucked into tubes and sent into an innovative facility that purifies and transforms it into liquefied natural gas.
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Article Source: USA Today
Tobacco, a crop under siege as the number of smoking bans in the United States continues to increase, may be turning a new leaf as a possible source of home insulation and biofuel.
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Article Source: USA Today
As the holidays wind down, cities throughout the United States are revving up recycling events to reuse Christmas trees.
On Earth 911's website, you can find a local program by inputing "christmas tree" and your town or zipcode. Many treecycling programs are only available the first couple of weeks of January.
The trees are often ground into mulch and used in landscaping and gardening or chipped and used for playgrounds, hiking trails and walkways. The National Christmas Tree Association says they are also used in other ways such as restoring beachfront dunes and improving fish habitats.
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