Green-News: Wednesday 9.24.08
- Congratulations Portland! Sustainlane.com, a web site for green living, has named Portland, Oregon the MOST sustainable city in the United States—via TheGreenMeeting.
- Here’s a startling report from the Associated Press. U.S. hospitals and long-term care facilities flush MILLIONS of pounds of unused pharmaceuticals down the toilet!
- Maybe that’s why a U.S. congressional panel is being pressed to MORE closely monitor pharmaceuticals and fire retardants in the water; the Associated Press explains.
- But on the other hand, the Environmental Protection Agency has announced it WON’T limit rocket fuel in public water supplies across the country; the Associated Press is on it.
- Would you BUY air? One entrepreneur from New York City has just started selling “99 percent breathing oxygen” in a can! Nope, I’m not kidding; more from The Washington Post.
- David Chameides, an Emmy-winning camera man, saves and composts ALL his garbage and stores it in his basement; Time magazine is on it.
