Topic – Waste

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  Houston One Bin for All idea wins Bloomberg Challenge

  $1 million prize

  Matt Dietrichson, Mar 14, 13.

  The City of Houston's innovative recycling plan has been selected as one of the five winners in the Bloomberg Philanthropies’ Mayors Challenge.

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  Dallas’ impressive recycling plan

  Zero waste by 2040

  Matt Dietrichson, Sep 25, 12.

  The City of Dallas has set the ambitious goal to be recycling nearly all of its garbage by the year 2040.

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  Adam Frank

  The city as engine

  Blogger, NPR; Astrophysicist, University of Rochester, Aug 22, 12.

  The city as engine: energy, entropy and the triumph of disorder

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  Historic Houston’s Salvage Warehouse to re-open

  Recycling building materials

  Matt Dietrichson, Jun 29, 12.

  The re-used building material warehouse run by Historic Houston had to close down last summer, but is now poised to re-open with a revamped business model.

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  Compiling the nation’s most wasteful highways

  Freeways without futures

  Matt Dietrichson, Feb 08, 12.

  Several new additions have made it to the list of America's most wasteful freeways.

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  Emily Badger

  Sprawl and climate don't mix

  Contributing writer - The Atlantic Cities, Miller-McCune, GOOD, The Christian Science Monitor, & New York Times, Dec 13, 11.

  The missing link of climate change: single-family suburban homes

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  City of San Francisco collects millionth ton of compost

  Diverted from landfills

  Jay Blazek Crossley, Nov 29, 11.

  The San Francisco public composting program collected its millionth ton of food scraps producing 600,000 cubic yards of finished compost for 200 local farms.

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  Public meeting to consider more money for SH99

  H-GAC amendment at issue

  David Crossley, Jun 07, 11.

  A public meeting will be held to review and provide comments on an amendment that would add more money to the project to build SH 99 across Katy Prairie

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  Sierra Club: SH 99 costs for 4 years nearly $5 billion

  Projects would built it all

  David Crossley, May 24, 11.

  TxDOT plans to spend nearly $5 billion on State Highway 99 over the next 4 years; public invited to comment

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  Infrastructure report: US not globally competitive

  From ULI, Ernst & Young

  David Crossley, May 17, 11.

  In contrast with global competition, the US is lurching along a problematic course—potentially losing ground in terms of essential infrastructure development.

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