San Francisco and the surrounding Bay Area conjure up images of pristine shoreline, beautiful ocean views, and a natural beauty that comes to typify many outsiders’ views of the California landscape. Unfortunately, the amount of plastic waste piling up around the bay, on the shores, and in the tributaries feeding into the sea has raised [...]
Filed under: Community, Environment, News on September 17th, 2009 @ 10:00 am
Tagged with: California, Community, Earthnews, Environment, environmental awareness, funding, legislation, plastic, recycling, Save the bay, sustainability, waste
Over the past decade, Starbucks has come to define many aspects of mega-capitalism with its ubiquitous stores and one-size-fits-all business model, but during the past year it has appeared to turn over a new leaf. The recession has clearly not been kind to the coffee behemoth and change was definitely on the menu.
While its “inspired by Starbucks” [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on September 16th, 2009 @ 6:16 pm
Tagged with: carbon footprint, CORR, costs, environmental awareness, food, goals, green business, jobs, recycling, Starbucks, sustainability, waste disposal
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.