Tag Archives: Salt Lake City

How Smart (or Dumb) is your City on the Sun?

Credit: Flickr via Ian Webb. You won’t find Lobster Boy in Hartford, Connecticut. Or Salt Lake City, Utah, or Denver, Colorado, for that matter. Those are the top three most “Suntelligent” big cities in the U.S., according to a survey by the American Academy of Dermatology. The most sun-dumb? Cleveland, Ohio; Chicago, Illinois and Pittsburgh, [...]

Utah Governor Turns Back Two Uranium Trains

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, February 26, 2010 (ENS) – Planned shipments of depleted uranium from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Savannah River nuclear materials processing center in South Carolina, will… Visit ecofactory.com to read the full eco news story.

EPA Program Grants 20 Cities Monies To Fight Global Warming

Some big items on the “to do” list for fighting global warming: improve energy efficiency in residential and commercial buildings, increase public transportation options, and create green jobs. Perhaps too much to ask on a national scale in the short-term, but what about in a few showcase communities that can serve as prototypes? That’s the [...]

Arteplas Recycled PET Ropes Divert Tons of Waste from Landfill

Images: Arteplas These days I don’t, alas, find myself at the outdoor trade shows I use to haunt. So I live vicariously through other reports. Here’s the first from the recent Outdoor Retailer Winter Market held in Salt Lake City Utah. The Outdoor Retailer website has lots of potential product leads, including one to a [...]

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