Of 140 million cell phones sold in the US in 2007, only 10% were recycled, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. That leaves a mounting pile of e-waste to deal with. Offering a solution is EcoATM, an automated reuse-and-recycle machine that makes it easy and financially rewarding for consumers to offload their abandoned electronics. [...]
This year, New York City became the largest school district in the country to announce that it would “go green.” This is no small undertaking – the district has more than 1200 buildings and 1 million students – but efforts are already paying off.
“In one building, becoming more energy-efficient helped slash electric bills in [...]
Thousands of you have already signed up for HuffPost’s week-long carbon cleanse starting October 18th, and now all of the details about how to pull this exciting week off are available. The week is not about strict rules or precisely replicating No Impact Man (unless you want to!) it’s about thinking about your environmental impact [...]
Project 10100 (pronounced “Project 10 to the 100th”) is a call for ideas to change the world by helping as many people as possible. Here’s how to join in. [...]