Wealth from waste: local and regional economic development and the environment.
Introduction Sustainable economic development is a difficult-to-define and somewhat elusive concept. It has been variously described as a means of promoting community-based economic development, as 'making existing business activity more environmentally sustainable' (Gibbs 2002, 95), as a 'balance between attracting and developing business and recognising the environmental...

Wells Fargo, USHCC Honor Distinguished Latino Business Owners.
ENTERTAINMENT CLOSE-UP-14 October 2008-Wells Fargo, USHCC Honor Distinguished Latino Business Owners(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com For the second consecutive year, Wells Fargo & Company and the United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce (USHCC) honored two Latino business owners with the Wells Fargo/USHCC Hispanic Businesswoman and Hispanic Businessman...

Amex Environmental Services Index Up 31.18% Through November.
NEW YORK, Dec. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Amex Environmental Services Index (AXENV) rose 4.80 percent in November and gained 31.18 percent for the 11 months ending November 30, 2006.* AXENV is a modified equal-dollar-weighted index that is comprised of publicly traded companies involved in waste management and related activities....

Amex Environmental Services Index Up 37.20% in 2006.
NEW YORK, Jan. 4 /PRNewswire/ -- The Amex Environmental Services Index (AXENV) rose 4.59 percent in December and gained 37.20 percent for the year ending December 31, 2006.* AXENV is a modified equal-dollar-weighted index that is comprised of publicly traded companies involved in waste management and related activities. These...

Amex Environmental Services Index Up 25.17% Through October.
NEW YORK, Nov. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Amex Environmental Services Index (AXENV) rose 3.45 percent in October and gained 25.17 percent for the 10 months ending October 31, 2006.* AXENV is a modified equal-dollar-weighted index that is comprised of publicly traded companies involved in waste management and related activities....

Environmental cleanup and compliance at federal facilities: an EPA perspective.
I. Introduction: Federal Facilities Are Part of the Regulated Community The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), along with all other federal departments and agencies, is struggling to ensure that the federal government leads the way in efforts to protect the environment. In this effort, federal...

Spotlight on environmentalists.
Spotlight on Environmentalists The president of The Conservation Fund, Patrick F. Noonan, was elected to the board of Ashland Oil Inc. Noonan founded The Conservation Fund in 1985 as a national, nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing land and water conservation. In a 25-year career marked by distinguished service...

Beyond Siting: Implementing Voluntary Hazardous Waste Siting Agreements in Canada.
Among those concerned with Canadian and American environmental policies, "more democracy" has become a rallying cry. Many analyses of environmental programs and institutions have attributed policy failures to inadequate public engagement and involvement. Following such assessment, recommendations for policy reform frequently have embraced extended provisions for public participation and...

Cleaning up after your computer: toxics from electronic scrap are emerging in streams and are bobbing on companies' risk horizons. One step ahead of Congress, brokers and underwriters say they are addressing this growing but fractured market.
Not much usually happens in Washington, D.C., in midsummer. But this year, despite a heat wave, the Senate held hearings about an equally hot issue: the potential for environmental contamination from toxins in electronic scrap. Further hearings were held in September with the object of forming a national e-waste...

Aerobic landfill test cells and their implications for sustainable waste disposal.
MARK HUDGINS (*) PAUL PHILLIPS (**) Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) landfills world-wide are experiencing the consequences of conventional landfilling techniques, whereby anaerobic conditions are created within the landfill waste. Under anaerobic conditions, slow stabilization of the waste mass occurs, producing methane, (an explosive, 'greenhouse' gas)...