Nation Jun 23 Restaurants in New Orleans are recycling oyster shells to save precious coastline By Roby Chavez
Nation Sep 17 5 Stories: World’s largest carbon capture plant goes online, Paris landmark goes undercover and other stories you missed The world’s largest carbon capture plant is up and running in Iceland, workers fulfill artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s posthumous dream of wrapping the Arc de Triomphe in fabric and school districts across the country face bus driver shortages. Check out… By Deema Zein, Julia Griffin
Arts May 20 Watch 5:42 This San Francisco art exhibit takes another look at trash In San Francisco, art enthusiasts recently gathered for an exhibition of unusual pieces, in which every material used came from the nearby city dump. The works represented the culmination of an artist residency at Recology, San Francisco’s waste and recycling… By Cat Wise
World Apr 07 Discarded Plastic Bottles Put to New Use in Schools A project to build a school using empty plastic bottles brought together a community in Guatemala. The idea now is spreading to other sites. By News Desk
Apr 07 Building a Plastic Bottle School By Larisa Epatko When former Peace Corps volunteer Laura Kutner was asked to help find funding to finish constructing two classrooms in the elementary school where she worked in Guatemala, she decided to use -- or rather reuse -- a common piece of… Continue reading
Aug 21 Taking a Lesson from Cash for Clunkers, Why Don’t We Recycle Old Cars? Question: With the success of the cash for clunkers program coupled with all of the auto plants that had to close this past year, why doesn’t the auto industry, the government, or some young entrepreneur reopen some of these plants… Continue reading
Nov 13 Watch World’s Oceans Face Problem of Plastic Pollution Some researchers believe that more than 5 million square miles of the Pacific Ocean has become a soup of plastic confetti. Now, scientists are trying to quantify the problem and are studying how plastic affects fish, marine mammals and birds. Continue watching