Daily Yonder, October 22, 2012 Chanute, Kansas, two hours from Tulsa, Joplin, and Kansas City, is home to about 9,100 people. As has been true in much of the rural U.S., existing telephone and cable companies were slow to upgrade broadband service here. But local leaders decided broadband was too important to wait for and embarked … Read More
Lewiston-Auburn Sun Journal, October 20, 2012 LEWISTON — “I put a lot of my making-the-world-better energy into becoming a better consumer,” said Stacy Mitchell, a researcher and writer at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, which challenges corporate consolidation of the economy. “(But) what we really need to do is change the underlying policies that affect the … Read More
A tribute page for Pat Franklin can be found on the Container Recycling Institute website. Reposted from Waste & Recycling News October 16, 2012 By Waste & Recycling News Staff Pat Franklin, founder of the Container Recycling Institute, has died. According to an email from lifelong friend and the former CRI research director Jenny Gitlitz, Franklin … Read More
ILSR’s Waste to Wealth Program has openings for qualified college and university students or graduates for summer or academic year internships to research the economic and watershed benefits of composting and to assist with its no-styrofoam campaign.… Read More
The Sustainable Food Court Initiative (SFCI) Airport Pilot, Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, works closely with the SFCI Team to bring sustainable operating practices to their operations, especially regarding food waste. In early 2012 the Atlanta Airport made a bold statement in the new concessionaire contract, the largest foodservice contract executed in North America. … Read More
Climate and Capitalism, October 10, 2012 As I post this, Walmart workers from 28 stores in 12 U.S. states have walked off the job to protest company attempts to “silence and retaliate against workers for speaking out for improvements on the job.” ….snip…. In 2005, the giant retailer (biggest in the world) announced three “aspirational [there’s … Read More
St. Paul Pioneer Press, October 1, 2012 The streets have yet to be ripped up, the trenches yet to be dug, for a proposed $14 million ultrafast fiber-optic underground broadband network in Ramsey County. The county has long said the network would be exclusively for government use. Facilities without fiber connectivity, like the county workhouse, or … Read More
County News, September 24, 2012 The success of two South Carolina counties’ plans to provide broadband access to rural areas could be in jeopardy because of a new state law that severely restricts public broadband projects. It also essentially bans new ones. … Oconee County was awarded $9.6 million for a so-called “middle-mile” project to build … Read More
Atlantic Cities, September 24, 2012 More than 20 wireless routers sit on rooftops in Washington, D.C.’s Bloomingdale neighborhood. About a mile away in Mt. Pleasant, eight such routers have already been installed, with plans for an expansion into neighboring Columbia Heights. In each neighborhood, the routers form the basis of a community mesh network—wireless networks openly … Read More
