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Recycling: The best kept secret on the Strip

June 3, 2011

by Ken Miller

MGM Resorts Recycling

The 7,600 tons of excess food sent every year from MGM Resorts International restaurants and buffets to Bob Combs’ pig farm in North Las Vegas may be the messiest example of responsible recycling along the Strip, but it’s certainly not the least. “Recycling is the best-kept secret on the Las Vegas Strip,” says Brad Tomm, sustainability manager for MGM Resorts, which recycled a third of its garbage in 2010. The corporation’s newest development, CityCenter, recycles more than half of its garbage.

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Such a Tiny City Bike!

March 3, 2011

 

YikeBike, a bike for cities of tomorrow
YikeBike, a green bike
which can be red or yellow or black or any other colors.
A wonderful means of transportation for our clogged cities

YikeBike, my bike
Someday.

 

 

 

Let’s Bamboo Bike Green!

February 14, 2011

 

Craig Calfee Bamboosero

 

Saturday Symphony: How Ink Is Made

October 2, 2010

Printing Ink Company

Hooked on Gadgets, and Paying a Mental Price

June 8, 2010

The New York Times

… and Paying a Mental Price

By MATT RICHTEL
Published: June 6, 2010

SAN FRANCISCO — When one of the most important e-mail messages of his life landed in his in-box a few years ago, Kord Campbell overlooked it.

Not just for a day or two, but 12 days. He finally saw it while sifting through old messages: a big company wanted to buy his Internet start-up.

“I stood up from my desk and said, ‘Oh my God, oh my God, oh my God,’ ” Mr. Campbell said. “It’s kind of hard to miss an e-mail like that, but I did.”

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Gas & Solar: A Story of Power

March 6, 2010

The New York Times

The Newest Hybrid Model

By JAD MOUAWAD

INDIANTOWN, Fla. — In former swamplands teeming with otters and wild hogs, one of the nation’s biggest utilities is running an experiment in the future of renewable power.

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