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Today’s irresistible links

Links to stories culled from the magic pipes: Amazing Race: E-Waste Violators’ Best Friend because trash is one of those characteristics of modern life that shocks, worries and amazes me (‘The average American throws away a staggering 4.5 pounds of rubbish daily.’). Vice’s Q & A with Terry Gillam because I’ve enjoyed just about everything he [...]
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Provide solutions to the problems that your stories create

Summary: In today’s information environment, making and selling a product is not a sustainable business. A product is not an end, but a beginning, and a gateway to the real business: providing services around that product. Inspiration: A CNN story about Riversimple, a company from the U.K. that has come up with a hydrogen-powered, less-poluting city [...]
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Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: County eyes water-conservation plan

New homes could use thousands of gallons less of water every year if a draft water-conservation ordinance going before the Bernalillo County Commission on Tuesday is adopted. The plan calls for energy-efficient appliances, rain-capturing and wastewater-reuse systems in new construction to reduce the water consumption in unincorporated areas of Bernalillo County – areas estimated to have [...]
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Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: Event draws awareness to sustainability, buying locally

Traveling from Albuquerque to Detroit for every meal would consume a lot of energy for little energy in return. But that kind of trip – about 1,500 miles – is how far the components of a typical American meal are shipped before making it to the plate, said Warren Karlenzig, chief strategy officer with SustainLane, an [...]
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Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: Duke City’s energy future pondered

If you thought Hurricane Katrina was bad, consider this scenario described at a conference on Albuquerque’s energy future: As greenhouse gases from fossil fuels cause the earth’s temperature to rise in the future, oceans deepen – possibly by dozens of feet – with glacial melt-off. People in cities on the oceans’ edges, such as New Orleans [...]
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Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: Pumped for the future

In Fiona Sinclair’s back yard, a long sausage-shaped filter suspended above a plastic bucket drips and plops, plops, plops thick, golden droplets of a fluid she says could be the fuel of the future. The fluid is used vegetable oil. Its destination is the red tank stuck into the trunk of a modified Volkswagen Jetta sitting [...]
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Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: Life without a car

When Mike Berry’s weekly gasoline bill hit nearly $100 a week, he decided it was time for a change. “I don’t like giving the gas companies $400 a month,” says the 56-year-old air traffic controller with the Federal Aviation Administration. “It was kind of a breaking point.” So Berry – a Los Lunas resident who works in [...]
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Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: District, cancer might be linked

What has Patty Grice worried about the Mountain View neighborhood in southern Albuquerque is the high number of people stuck with some kind of sickness. Grice, president of the Mountain View Neighborhood Association, knows many residents with respiratory problems. Three people in one area family have asthma, she says. She wonders about a number of neighbors [...]
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Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: From the ashes

Saving the world is a pretty good business. Just ask PNM Resources. After adopting an environmental sustainability policy in 2004, the company has moved more urgently ahead with in-house recycling programs that are keeping the world a little more green and making PNM Resources a buck to boot. “Recycling is a good thing for the environment,” said Jeff [...]
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Article in The Albuquerque Tribune: Off the grid, out of sight

If you ask Walter Webb, Evergreen Hills is the Beverly Hills of Albuquerque. The 77-year-old retired welder and businessman was one of the first to move to the neighborhood roughly 25 years ago. He says the views, the tranquility and the wildlife are what’s so special about the area – a collection of majestic, mountainside homes [...]
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