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  • Re: What's the responsible way?

    The locals (I am an Albertan) are demanding that the issues be dealt with. The provincial government has set aside over a billion (Canadian) dollars to sequester CO2. The companies are required to find ways to reduce tailings ponds and water usage. The amount of water and energy consumption per barrel of oil has decreased a lot over the last 30 ...
    Posted to Green Room by aardvark77 on June 26, 2009

  • Bagasse/Bamboo Products

    I am the President of P&C Compostech Inc (www.compostech.com). My company is the largest importer and distributor in Canada of compostable cups made from recycled bamboo and bagasse. Bagasse is sugarcane pulp left over from the sugar making process. Our manufacturer, (currently in China, with plans to relocate the foctories to Canada once the ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by ClarkeBitter on September 18, 2008

  • one does not equal one

    I think you article was great, but there was one point you left out. It may take more energy to make a ceramic or stainless steel cup than a styrofoam cup, but once the ceramic cup is made you will use it for years. If you drink 2 cups of coffee a day using a styrofoam cup that is 730 styrofoam cups in just one year. I don't think styrofoam is ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by jenmcmn on September 18, 2008

  • Organic Pollution? Nonsense

    This is just public relations scare tactics, directly from the conventional growers' lobby. Note that every ''fact'' claimed somewhere in the article is denied elsewhere.
    Posted to Green Room by ari green on September 10, 2008

  • Hybrids, not as good a move as you think

    Before you go out and buy a hybrid you may want to look into turning your current vehicle into a hybrid. In recent years many advances have been made towards using hydrogen in conventional gas burning engines. While some ideas seem to have been made by crack pot hippies or your neighbor experimenting in his garage some ideas will actually work. ...
    Posted to The Green Lantern by allanmain on July 8, 2008

  • Re: way better than landfills and coal.

    Virtually all materials: nuclear, bio-waste, coal, petroleum, municiple waste, etc can be recycled by using ''plasma gasification''. Convert all of these to syngas, produce electricity with little to no emisions! Want to know more, read my book ''Plasma at Work'' available on amazon.com.
    Posted to The Green Lantern by Plasma-Man on January 9, 2008