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"Pay-As-You-Throw" Trash Metering Cuts Landfill Waste by 50% in a Month

Image credit: WasteZero Some places have looked at paying people to recycle , but others think it makes more sense to charge people for their waste instead. When the UK talked about implementing a “pay-as-you-throw” scheme for trash , our readers were broadly supportive of the idea. However, the UK Conservative Party (which is … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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"Pay-As-You-Throw" Trash Metering Cuts Landfill Waste by 50% in a Month

Maine Plans Climate Quantum Leap: Weatherization To Hit International Markets

Georges’ Restaurant, Waterville ME. Image credit: WatervilleMainStreet.org Creative leaps like this one from the State of Maine are what we need more of. The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative which Maine participates in has already generated more than $20 million. Where are the opportunities for more returns? As reported in the Bangor Daily News , MaineHousing, the state’s affordable housing agency, has developed a plan to make more mon… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Earth First! Activists Arrested Protesting Maine Wind Farm – ‘It’s Too Big’

New turbines on Maine’s Kibby Mountain. Image credit: Wikipedia. Kennebec Maine Journal covered a recent anti-wind power protest, which involved several arrests and someone chaining herself by the neck “to a truck carrying a turbine blade.”. A sort of a Green Tea Party, it sounds like. Go EF! Between this and Joe Barton apologizing to BP for the Obama Administration making BP pu… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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John Travolta dogs killed

In this Jan. 28, 2010 file photo, actor John Travolta attends the premiere of #39;From Paris With Love#39; at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York. A service vehicle at Maine#39;s Bangor International Airport struck and killed two dogs belonging to Travolta on May 13. John Travolta#39;s pet dogs have been killed in an airport accident. The actor – who has a 10-year-old daughter Ella with wife Kelly Preston – was having his plane serviced at Bangor International Airport, in Maine, US, and asked an

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John Travolta and Kelly Preston’s Dogs Tragically Killed at Maine Airport

BANGOR, Maine — Two dogs belonging to John Travolta and Kelly Preston were tragically killed early last Thursday at Maine’s Bangor International Airport, the Bangor

Hugh Grant Has His Cake and Wears It, Too

First there was the baked beans incident, now this. Funny how all that English reserve seems to go out the window when catering’s involved. As it happens, Hugh Grant has run afoul of…

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Can Perez Hilton Go to Jail for Chuy Porn Video?

Big fan of Chuy, big fan of Perez Hilton, but I read Hilton could go to jail for that Chuy porn video he posted. Any truth to that? —LisaK, Maine via the Answer B!tch…

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Twilight Stars Snatched from Burger King

Filed under: Celebrity Justice , Twilight There’s a “Twilight” crime wave sweeping the nation — particularly at Burger King restaurants …

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Veggie season just keeps on growing

Published on Monday, November 23, 2009 by Portland Press Herald (Maine) Veggie Season Keeps Growing Demand for locally grown food has farmers building greenhouses and trying cool-weather varieties. by Beth Quimby PORTLAND, Maine – The vegetable-growing season used to end with the first hard frost in Maine

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Whoops, Barack Obama Forgot to Care About the Gays Again

Congratulations to the National Organization For Marriage, a group dedicated to making sure a large segment of the population cannot get married, on their successful campaign to scare people in Maine. NOM raised a zillion dollars or so from hateful bigots across the nation whose names they refuse to disclose, which is, of course, a violation of state campaign finance law. But if it works, who gives a shit?

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