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Toxic waste still plagues American communities 27 years after the U.S. government set up a program to identify and clean up the country's worst sites. A one-year investigation by the Center for Public Integrity reveals the beleaguered state of the Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund effort, uncovers the companies and government agencies linked to the most sites and tracks progress of the clean up.

This book is part of a course which was offered at MIT and is part of there Open Course Work project. This is important for learning what is going on, and why, in the International community concerning Climate Change, and International cooperation.

The Age recently had an article on the emerging practice of "guerilla gardening", taking a look at the "Gardening guerillas in our midst". This concept seems to have steadily increased in popularity in recent years (admittedly from a very low base) as the permaculture movement's ideas have been propagated through the community. Unlike the usual approach taken when trying to grow food in the suburbs - converting spare land on your own property (as discussed by aeldric previously and, more recently, in Jeff Vail's series on A Resilient Suburbia) - guerilla gardening involves cultivating any spare patch of urban land that isn't being used for another purpose, which could provide a substantial addition to the food growing potential of suburbia.

One man in the classroom earned more than $100,000 framing tract homes during the building heyday. Another installed pools and piloted a backhoe. Behind him sat a young father who made a good living swinging a hammer in southern Utah. But that was before construction jobs vanished like a fast-moving dust storm in this blustery high desert. Hard times have brought them to a classroom in Kern County, about 120 miles northeast of Los Angeles, to learn a different trade. Tonight's lesson: how to avoid death and dismemberment. This is Wind Technology Boot Camp at Cerro Coso Community College, where eight weeks of study and $1,000 in tuition might lead to a job repairing mammoth wind turbines sprouting up across the nation.

WorldChanging has a post on a Rocky Mountain Institute backed initiative to pave the way fro smart grids and electric vehicles - Project Get Ready Aims to Create Electric Vehicle Revolution. Creating a well functioning smart grid - cyclically connected to smart vehicles and buildings and houses, as well as personal and public renewable energy systems - will be no small infrastructure feat. Utility providers, technology innovators, neighborhood councils and local governments will need to come together to provide needed support -- both monetarily and ideologically. Although U.S. President Obama and the recently passed stimulus plan are pushing the renewable, electric energy revolution forward, residents across the nation might need more motivation to make the leap from fossil fuel users to plug-in pioneers. A new project, headed by "think-and-do" tank the Rocky Mountain Institute, is offering to help city leaders provide community members with that extra inspiration. The initiative, Project Get Ready, supplies a menu of strategies that are meant to help cities prepare for the "plug-in" transition. According to RMI, problems related to individual hesitancy toward purchasing electric vehicles and investing in the infrastructure itself, can "be overcome if cities/regions become ecosystems that welcome electric vehicles."

CleanTechnica has a post from San Francisco mayor Gavin Newsom on the city's proposal to build a wave power plant offshore - Wave Energy to Bring Power and Jobs to San Francisco. Today, San Francisco took a meaningful step toward turning the promise of renewable ocean energy into reality. We submitted a preliminary permit application to the federal government to develop a wave power project off our coast that we believe can generate between 10 to 30 megawatts of energy, with potential of up to 100 megawatts. When this project is fully operational, upwards of 100 jobs could be created in San Francisco. Ocean power is a true "game changer" in the area of renewable energy. When wave and tidal power technologies reach commercial scale, they are expected to be able to provide thousands of megawatts of power to our coastal communities, dramatically green our energy portfolios and create thousands of new American jobs. In San Francisco, we've been doing our part to spur these technologies by aggressively advancing tidal and wave power pilot projects. We are 100% committed to this challenge. Wave power is not a new concept. In 1887, San Francisco Mayor Adolph Sutro recognized the power of San Francisco's waves and built a wave catch-basin to harness the ocean's power. Over the next century wave power development took a backseat to our dependence on oil, with oil platforms built along our coasts to feed our oil addiction.

Local organization to promote and develop the green building community.

Animal researches have long been puzzled by certain aspects of elephant behavior. In particular they have wondered how apparently random group of elephants, sometimes separated by miles, can manage to move in a cohesive, coordinated manner toward the same destination. Equally mysterious is how, without any discernible means of communication, male elephants are able to track down a female in heat even if she is many miles away.

This Valentine's Day instead of buying fresh cut flowers that only last a few days and are totally full of pesticide toxins - Make your sweetie flowers that are eco-friendly because they are made from some extra scrap fabric and will last for years. Here is a great how-to guide by Becky Striepe over at ...

Are you a graduate with a PR, Communications or Publishing Degree? Here is a golden career opportunity to work for a global IT Services company. This is a short-term contract with an opportunity to converting to a permanent position. Here is your chance to get your foot in the door and create a career with a high profile company.

Working for a high profile international company, you will be part of a team of professionals working across a wide range of federal government client sites. Data Centre professionals develop and deliver strategies and solutions for housing the computer systems and communications equipment -including servers, databases, storage devices, etc. -- that handle the data necessary for enterprise operations.

Vice President Joe Biden and Energy Secretary Steven Chu today announced plans to invest $3.2 billion in energy efficiency and conservation projects in U.S. cities, counties, states, territories, and Native American tribes. The Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant program, funded by President Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, will provide formula grants for projects that reduce total energy use and fossil fuel emissions, and improve energy efficiency nationwide. "These investments will save taxpayer dollars and create jobs in communities around the country," said Vice President Biden. "Local leaders will have the flexibility in how they put these resources to work - but we will hold them accountable for making the investments quickly and wisely to spur the local economy and cut energy use."

Are you working for a managed services or vendor or consulting firm with established contacts/networks and a proven track record in infrastructure sales. Do you want to transfer this business to a high profile consulting/managed services company. We need someone who can drive the new business and self generate the sales pipeline. You will have a strong and solid understanding of infrastructure solution selling and know 'whos who in the zoo' in the Canberra ICT community.

Staying in shape can be really tough in today's world. We, at fnfdoc.com, join hands with the community to learn more about health and wellness. We talk about the ways to achieve optimum strength and fitness. Let's learn more about the nature of disease. Because you can only fight what you understand.

With a reliable secure instant messaging application, communication and collaboration can be done without compromise. In order to stay away from the risks that come with the technology, read these short five nuggets and protect your information from invaders.

We compare Yammer vs Slack in an easy way of understanding the difference between Yammer and Slack is by looking at their taglines: Yammer is "the enterprise social network", and Slack is "a messaging app for teams".Yammer and Slack are two extremely effective tools for communicating between teammates. https://urlzs.com/1XowM

The new-age employee chat app Troop Messenger uses Server-Side Encryption (SSE) to keep your data secure and confidential. The benefit of SSE is that along with maintaining the isolation of your data, it also limits the complexity of the environment.

a team app bears these essentials in its soul and brings you a load of features that not only help in keeping the communication and collaboration effective but also address the security concerns of an organization.

The number of instant business messaging apps for linux are increasing with each passing day. This post will help you in identifying the proper apps for Linux that let your team communicate seamlessly and get things done quickly.

we have discussed the benefits of video conference and how it impacts your business thereby improving efficiency, revenues, and management communications.