Even in the middle of a historic drought, San Antonio, Texas has managed to keep the San Antonio River flowing through the River Walk area of downtown. What’s their secret? Treated sewage water. Here are a few facts from an NPR article on the river. To keep the river flowing, the city used to have to pump [...]
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Five Friday Facts: Sewer Water, Drought, and San Antonio
October 7th, 2011 
Justin Manger 
Posted in Conservation, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, Policy, Recylcing, Sustainability 
Tags: Environment, Water, Water Conservation 
No Comments »Five Friday Facts: The Nature of Design
September 30th, 2011 Eric Wilson A friend recently lent me her copy of David Orr’s The Nature of Design. I read and reviewed his 1994 book, Earth in Mind several months back. In the first few chapters there were a number of interesting facts. I culled a few from Earth in Mind for a past Five Friday Facts and noted [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts Tags: Carbon Dioxide, Carbon Sequestration, Coal, David Orr, Food, Population Growth, Science, Waste No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Ray Anderson, Interface, and the Bottom Line
September 23rd, 2011 Justin Manger Ray Anderson, who passed away last month at 77, had an epiphany when he was 60 that would profoundly transform his thoughts about sustainability. In short order, it would also transform his carpet business, Interface, into one of America’s greenest companies. Here are some facts about how his push for sustainable practices led to a cleaner environment [...]
Posted in Business, Conservation, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger, Sustainability Tags: Environment, Interface, Waste No Comments »Five Friday Facts: CU-Buffaloes
September 16th, 2011 Eric Wilson As a follow up to the EPA’s Game Day Challenge post from earlier this week, this set of Five Friday Facts deals with the waste diversion efforts at the University of Colorado Boulder’s football stadium. Virtually all public food and beverage services in Folsom Field have converted have switched to recyclable or compostable materials and [...]
Posted in Conservation, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Recylcing Tags: Boulder-Colorado, Carbon Dioxide, Composting, Energy, EPA, Waste, Zero Waste No Comments »Google and Energy Usage
September 9th, 2011 Justin Manger Opening a window into the huge amounts of electricity it takes to run their data centers in countries all around the world, the search giant recently disclosed some details about its massive energy use. The company has invested in numerous green technologies and maintains that overall people around the world use less energy by carrying [...]
Posted in Business, Conservation, Five Friday Facts, Justin Manger Tags: Electricity Generation, Energy Conservation, Google No Comments »Five Friday Facts: Clean Air, EPA, and Regulation
September 2nd, 2011 Eric Wilson In light of President Obama’s recent announcement that the administration has withdrawn support for tighter regulations on smog and air pollution at the risk of harming economic growth, here are today’s Five Friday Facts courtesy of Lisa Jackson, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Jackson’s Labor Day message can be seen below. Since the enactment [...]
Posted in Clean Technology, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, President Obama Tags: Battery, Economy, Environment, EPA, Jobs, Pollution, Video No Comments »Five Friday Facts: 2011 Heat Wave
August 26th, 2011 Eric Wilson As a follow up to last Friday’s story about New York University’s energy reduction this past summer, The Washington Post, UPI, and CBS’s Dallas affiliate provide the following facts about the heat waves from this summer. Nationally, 1,966 daily high maximum temperature records have been broken or tied so far this month (through July 23). [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts Tags: Minnesota, New York City, Washington DC No Comments »Five Friday Facts/Infographic: Obama’s 2035 Energy Goals
August 19th, 2011 Justin Manger Can the U.S. really get 80% of its electricity needs from clean energy sources as proposed by president Obama? We currently get about 50% of our electricity from coal fired power plants, so roughly two-thirds of that coal based energy would have to change to clean energy sources in order to reach that goal. Here’s what it [...]
