Ruben Anderson, The Tyee. July 17, 2008. Composting is key to reducing waste costs, cutting global warming emissions, and increasing urban food security.
Nick Penniman, American News Project. June 14, 2008. Video: The Pentagon spends hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons systems, but troops still aren't getting what they need.
Kathy Marks, Daniel Howden, The Independent UK. February 6, 2008. A "plastic soup" of floating waste in the Pacific Ocean now covers an area twice the size of the continental U.S.
Simon Usborne, Independent UK. September 3, 2007. Some unsuspecting reality TV contestants who signed up for an "eco-challenge" were dumped on a landfill for three weeks and learned to survive on other people's garbage.
Becca Tucker, AlterNet. March 21, 2007. A subculture of people make a statement by living off the waste of millions. For three days, a reporter gave it a dumpster-diving go in the "freegan" paradise of Manhattan.
Andi McDaniel, Conscious Choice. January 9, 2007. A new movement is working to make manufacturers more accountable by pushing them to stop producing anything that can't be resold, recycled or reused.
