4 Feb 2013

Letter to the Editor: Waste Industry Should Pay a Living Wage

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Waste & Recycling News, February 4, 2013 John Campanelli does well to focus attention on garbage collection workers in our industry that are working difficult jobs for poverty wages (“Texas recycling death highlights wage, safety issue in the industry”). Workers along picking lines at recycling processing plants are in woeful straights as well.  In Atlanta and … Read More
3 Feb 2013

Composting Efforts Gain Traction Across the United States

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Washington Post, February 3, 2013 Roy Derrick maneuvered his forklift with a pallet of neatly boxed expired produce and flowers and dropped it into an industrial compactor at Safeway’s cavernous return center in Upper Marlboro. As the compactor hummed, compressed food and floral scraps spilled through a chute into a 40-foot trailer, one of five that … Read More
2 Feb 2013

Who Should Be the Next Head of the Federal Communications Commission?

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The Guardian, February 2, 2013 As President Obama’s second term takes shape, many of his top appointees are leaving – a standard pattern for all two-term presidencies. While most of the press attention has been focused on the major cabinet posts such as Treasury, State and Defense, some important posts below that tier are also being … Read More
25 Jan 2013

Mapping Solar Grid Parity in the US

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Greentech Media, January 25, 2013 With solar prices dropping in the U.S. and around the world, John Farrell noticed that the German solar boom was not flagging despite the slow, steady reduction in its subsidy. “The trajectory looked very good for solar to be something that would work, not only from a distributed energy and ownership … Read More
24 Jan 2013

You Want Gigabit Cities? Here’s How You Do That.

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Gigabit Nation, January 24, 2013 FCC Chairman Genachowski just announced an initiative to get a gigabit city in every state by 2015. Is this a meaningful policy objective or, as some critics claim, “empty rhetoric”? Five community broadband industry leaders tackle this question. More importantly, they detail the heavy lifting necessary to get a gig to … Read More
23 Jan 2013

Genachowski’s Gigabit Gambit

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FreePress, January 23, 2013 Last week, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski extolled the virtues of “gigabit” broadband: Making sure the U.S. has super-fast, high-capacity, ubiquitous broadband networks delivering speeds measured in gigabits, not megabits, isn’t just a matter of consumer convenience, as important as that is. It’s essential to economic growth, job creation and U.S. … Read More
21 Jan 2013

New Mexico Recycling Industry Poised to Add 5,000 Jobs

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A new report released by the New Mexico Recycling Coalition (NMRC) details the estimated number of jobs in the recycling industry and predicts how many jobs could be gained through increased recycling activities. It is estimated that close to 5,000 new direct, indirect and induced jobs will be created in New Mexico when the state recycling rate reaches 34%.… Read More

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