http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Sat, 18 May 2013 04:43:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/03/a-sustainable-strategy-to-deal-with-urban-poverty/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/03/a-sustainable-strategy-to-deal-with-urban-poverty/#comments Fri, 03 May 2013 21:10:28 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=36157 When architect Fernando Arias first arrived in Kumasi, Ghana last year, he saw unpaved roads, trash burning, garbage everywhere, and shoeless children running all around. He knew he needed to act on their behalf.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/05/03/a-sustainable-strategy-to-deal-with-urban-poverty/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/18/green-films-for-earth-day-2013/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/18/green-films-for-earth-day-2013/#comments Thu, 18 Apr 2013 17:24:28 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=35747 Mothers, carbon, trash, vanishing ice and "secret lives": Watch a movie for Earth Day and learn. ]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/18/green-films-for-earth-day-2013/feed/ 1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/31/what-happens-to-all-that-plastic/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/31/what-happens-to-all-that-plastic/#comments Tue, 31 Jan 2012 16:14:21 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=22369 Today Americans discard about 33.6 million tons of plastic each year, but only 6.5 percent of it is recycled and 7.7 percent is combusted in waste-to-energy facilities. What happens to all the rest of it?]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/31/what-happens-to-all-that-plastic/feed/ 14 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/07/08/plasma-gasification-a-solution-to-the-waste-disposal-dilemma/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/07/08/plasma-gasification-a-solution-to-the-waste-disposal-dilemma/#comments Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:46:25 +0000 Adrian Soghoian http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/climate/?p=954 Waste not, Want not? The source of this proverb is unknown, but I’m going to hazard a guess and say it wasn’t your average (modern) American. I say this because your average American runs through 56 tons of trash a year – including 500 plastic cups and 650 pounds of paper. If we were to [...]]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2009/07/08/plasma-gasification-a-solution-to-the-waste-disposal-dilemma/feed/ 11