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National Defense June 2012 Stew Magnuson	Pragmatism Driving New Energy Programs On U.S. Military Bases The Defense Department has set lofty goals for its facilities when it comes to renewable energies. It wants to produce 3 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2025, with each service branch kicking in one more gigawatt.
Food Processing September 2008 Diane Toops	Food and Beverage Companies Go Green Consumers are making choices based on sustainability efforts; here's what the top food and beverage companies are doing.
Popular Mechanics December 2007 Alex Hutchinson	Top 2 Ways to Compost Smart and Cut Your Organic Waste As a first step, pare down on paper products -- the largest single category of garbage. Then plan meals more carefully
Chemistry World October 2011	Waste not, want not Will filling your car with biofuel ever be sustainable? Matthew Aylott says that new technology is set to make this dream a reality
IndustryWeek April 1, 2005 John Teresko	Powerful Opportunities As global manufacturing faces conflicting energy challenges new answers are being found. The winning opportunities are in power management, renewable resources and distributed power generation.
Popular Mechanics December 17, 2009 Adam Hadhazy	How the Manufacturing Sector Can Curtail Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions Increasing efficiency, which reduces emissions, also improves the bottom line, and so the manufacturing industry has already begun to think creatively about its sizable carbon footprint.
The Motley Fool October 29, 2004 Nathan Slaughter	Consider Some Trash for Your Portfolio Trash collector Waste Management shines, posting a 44% rise in Q3 earnings.
Geotimes February 2006	Turning Trash Into Energy Global investment is growing in a variety of projects that take trash and convert it into usable energy: Turkey to oil... Poop power... From bread basket to fuel pump... Flying high on plant waste... Trash to light up New York...
Food Processing April 2012 Dave Fusaro	PepsiCo Casa Grande Plant Reaches 'Near Net Zero' for Sustainability Frito-Lay's Casa Grande, Ariz., plant is nearly self-sustaining in water, heat and electricity.
Chemistry World January 22, 2015 Rebecca Trager	US methane emissions reduction effort generates sparks The White House has set a new goal of cutting methane emissions from the oil and gas sector by 40-45% by 2025.
BusinessWeek March 26, 2007 Ben Elgin	Another Inconvenient Truth Behind the feel-good hype of carbon offsets, some of the deals don't deliver.
Chemistry World January 23, 2008 Michael Gross	Turning Gas Into Fuel Cheaply Researchers in Japan have developed a fuel cell that can convert methane, the main component of natural gas, into methanol, a useful fuel, at moderate temperatures.
Reason June 2009 Ronald Bailey	Energy Futures A quick guide to alternative energy sources we may see in the not-too-distant future.
Reason December 2005 Jeff Taylor	The Crisis That Wasn't In their 1992 book Rubbish!: The Archaeology of Garbage, William Rathje and Cullen Murphy noted the historical forces that drive cultures to be more efficient in dealing with garbage, predicting today's waste disposal efficiency.
The Motley Fool November 20, 2010	Chevrolet to Invest $40 Million in Clean-Energy Projects The GM automaker aims to reduce CO2 emissions.
IDB America September 2005 Daniel Drosdoff	Landfill with a Conscience New investments in sanitation preserve the Bahamas' natural beauty and environmental health.
Popular Mechanics July 22, 2008 Elizabeth Svoboda	Swapping Smokestacks for Stores, Startups Market CO2 as Green A novel way of eliminating CO2 from the atmosphere is to turn it into salable consumer goods.
The Motley Fool June 18, 2007 Toby Shute	It's a Dung Deal American Electric Power, the nation's largest CO2 emitter, is taking baby steps toward changing its dirty ways -- starting with cow manure.
BusinessWeek December 30, 2009	The Greenhouse Gas Gap Companies and countries report their emissions but the disclosed amounts often don't add up to what's actually in the air.
IDB America August 2004 Paul Constance	Humanity in the Garbage Heap A collection of photographs offer unsettling portraits of people who make a living by scavenging refuse in Central America.
Popular Mechanics November 10, 2008	Recycling Myths: PM Debunks 5 Half Truths about Recycling The dominant factor in virtually every case is the enormous amount of energy required to turn raw materials into metals and plastics compared to the energy needed to reprocess products that already exist.
Chemistry World November 1, 2011 Rebecca Trager	Pilot Seeks to Thaw Methane Hydrate Promise The question of whether natural gas locked in ice, known as methane hydrates, can help the world keep pace with its growing demand for energy will soon become clearer.
Geotimes November 2004 Dickens & Pinsker	Methane Hydrate and Abrupt Climate Change Conceivably, we live in a world with an enormous amount of gas hydrate and free gas that affects climate and global systems over time
IndustryWeek June 1, 2005 John Teresko	Rolling Out the Red Carpet Shaw Industries' waste-to-energy project promises to stabilize power costs at its Dalton, Ga., carpet-making plant. Estimated annual savings: $2.5 million.
Geotimes January 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Plant Methane Surprises Climate Scientists Atmospheric scientists have long blamed cattle and microbes for the production of significant amounts of methane on Earth. But the discovery of a new large source of methane, a greenhouse gas that contributes to global warming, is putting trees on the hot seat.
Food Processing August 2013 Kevin T. Higgins	Cheese Processor Selects Electrical Generation As Biogas Go-To Option Ohio-based Pearl Valley Cheese converted its methane into pricier electricity.
The Motley Fool June 7, 2010 Julie Clarenbach	Competitor Comparison: Which Waste Management Companies Are a Buy? The Motley Fool community of investors likes Waste Management, a company with a huge moat, nice dividend, and virtually no potential for competitors.
Popular Mechanics December 9, 2009 Adam Hadhazy	Cutting Water Use to Curb Carbon Dioxide By taking water conservation further, and by thinking differently about how we treat and move water, analysts believe the U.S. can achieve dramatic reductions in greenhouse-gas emissions fairly quickly.
AskMen.com	The Bovine Solution U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced a plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the dairy industry by convincing farmers to capture the methane from cow manure that otherwise would be released into the atmosphere.
Chemistry World April 27, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Scientists Clash Over Methane Mystery The startling claim that trees could be responsible for putting millions of tons of methane into the atmosphere every year was published last year in the prestigious journal Nature. But that has now been rubbished by rival researchers who report that plants emit virtually no methane whatsoever.
Geotimes March 2003	Demonstrating Carbon Sequestration Estimates are that human activity emits 7 billion tons of carbon dioxide a year. One proposed method for reducing how much of the greenhouse gas ends up in the atmosphere is to store the carbon dioxide underground. Natural reservoirs of the gas exist, suggesting that it is feasible.
Chemistry World December 14, 2015 Simon Hadlington	New camera makes methane visible Researchers in Sweden have developed a new camera that can visualize the flow of methane -- a key greenhouse gas -- as it emanates from its source.
Popular Mechanics December 2008	Is Recycling Worth It? PM Investigates its Economic and Environmental Impact Almost overnight, it seemed, recycling was embraced by the public as a kind of all-purpose absolution for our environmental sins.
Food Engineering November 1, 2008 Kevin T. Higgins	Cover Story: How Green Was My Factory Renewable energy is becoming a factor in all types of food facilities, though it's only one part of a wider drive toward green building design.
The Motley Fool June 28, 2011 Alyce Lomax	Rising Star Buy: Waste Management This seemingly dirty business hides amazing, innovative green potential.
Geotimes August 2004 Megan Sever	The Missing Methane Link Researchers working in Azerbaijan have quantified one of the missing methane emitters -- mud volcanoes.
Food Processing January 2008 Marty Weil	Consider Alternative and Renewable Energy Sources Solar and wind power, biogas and biodiesel may solve your manufacturing company's energy problems as well as its green initiatives.
Popular Mechanics March 2007 Jim Gorman	New Belgium Brewing's Green Beer: In Good Taste An environmentally friendly design of a Colorado brewery facility proves that you can have great taste and a clear conscience.
Popular Mechanics November 2009	Methane Maps Step One for Energy Prospectors A recent discovery indicates there may be more of the gas being released and from deeper areas of the Arctic seabed than expected.
Food Processing September 2011 Dave Fusaro	ConAgra Foods Offers Practical View of Sustainability ConAgra Foods' view on green or sustainable food manufacturing is an outgrowth of the company's philosophy on good corporate citizenship.
Industrial Physicist Oct/Nov 2004 Jesse H. Ausubel	Big Green Energy Machines Zero-emission power plants and Continental SuperGrids can multiply the power of the energy system 5-10 times while shrinking it in a revolutionary way.
Chemistry World November 9, 2012 Laura Howes	No methane on Mars, says Curiosity The idea that there was life on Mars has been dealt a blow after analysis of the planet's atmosphere found little to no methane.
Popular Mechanics July 2008 Jon Luoma	Greenhouse Graveyard: New Progress for Big Global Warming Fix Scientists admit it will be tough to capture a key greenhouse gas and bury carbon dioxide in the ground, in rock or underwater. What's even tougher for carbon sequestration: figuring out where to store it.
Chemistry World September 5, 2014 Rebecca Trager	EPA targets methane leaks The US Environmental Protection Agency will release a strategy to address methane leaks from the oil and gas sector this autumn.
The Motley Fool February 16, 2010 Christopher Barker	Waste Management Shares the Green This waste hauler is no garbage heap.
BusinessWeek October 27, 2003 Irene M. Kunii	Turning Trash Into Cash In Japan, high-tech furnaces are vaporizing toxins and generating clean electricity.
IndustryWeek July 1, 2008 Brad Kenney	The Zero Effect: How to Green Your Facility These days, defects aren't the only metric that manufacturing managers are trying to drive down to zero - landfill waste, carbon emissions and energy grid use are the new targets.
Chemistry World August 20, 2008	Grasslands Emit Greenhouse Gas Chinese researchers have found further evidence that plants emit significant quantities of methane - a potent greenhouse gas. But the latest findings also show that methane emissions depend not just on the species of plant, but the conditions in which they are growing.
Chemistry World November 24, 2014 Hepeng Jia	China looks to alternative hydrocarbons to fuel its future China is quickening its efforts to explore alternative energy sources ranging from 'flammable ice' to shale gas, although technological bottlenecks and environmental concerns are hampering efforts to commercialize them.
IEEE Spectrum April 2009 William Sweet	The Biggest Little PV Plant in the East The northeastern United States is not where most would think to put a photovoltaic power plant. But one just started up in Pennsylvania this winter. It's delivering the watts, but at what cost?