By Austin Bogues, abogues@dailypress.com | 247-45368:41 p.m. EDT, June 23, 2010
During the thick of the winter storms that battered Virginia many companies let employees work from home.
Virginia Department of Rail and Public Transportation executive director Thelma Drake said that helped keep the state’s economy afloat.
Now local transportation leaders are hoping that telecommuting can help relieve [...]
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By Louis Llovio | TIMES-DISPATCH STAFF WRITER
Published: June 23, 2010
Short Pump, Va. –
Whole Foods Market has taken over an acre in the West Broad Village development for a community garden that will help supply its local store.
This is the Austin, Texas-based grocer’s first on-site field-to-store garden.
The garden is part of an increasing effort by [...]
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Windsor Elementary School celebrated on Tuesday, June 8, and Wednesday, June 9, with pizza and cookies! This celebration was the prize for collecting the most plastic bags of all elementary schools in Isle of Wight County from September 8, 2009, until April 22, 2010 (Earth Day). Their efforts also won them a Trex bench (seen [...]
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Monday, 21 June 2010
New Jersey Newsroom
Miranda Brooke Pawline possesses a smile that can light up a whole town, has a charitable and giving heart … and her beauty can’t be diminished even when she dresses in a gown she created entirely from recycled plastic shopping bags.
She’s New Jersey’s Eco-Friendly Cinderella.
Miranda was honored recently for starting [...]
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I know this isn’t about recycling, but it is about agriculture and Virginia. So, please help out!
The Congressional Quarterly and Roll Call magazines in Washington are conducting a contest in conjunction with the Congressional Baseball Game played between the Democrats and Republicans. Leading up to the game on June 29, at Nationals Stadium, people will [...]
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The goal of the Bag Monster® Blog is to keep you up to date on the reusable bag movement and related environmental news while providing comical updates on Bag Monster® whereabouts. It is our hope that this blog can be a place for positive and open discussions. We encourage all [...]
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by Trey Granger
Published on June 15th, 2010
As California contemplates a statewide ban on retailers offering free single-use bags, at least three stores in the Golden State already enforce such a policy. Walmart stores in Sacramento and Ukiah stopped offering single-use bags to shoppers in October, as reported by Triple Pundit.
The company as a whole has [...]
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By Allison T. Williams, atwilliams@dailypress.com | 247-45352:10 p.m. EDT, June 8, 2010
ISLE OF WIGHT – Isle of Wight County has bagged a national award from the National Association of Counties for its plastic bag recycling program
Isle of Wight’s program, which was unveiled last year, tries to reduce plastic bag litter by placing plastic bag recycling [...]
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When San Francisco banned plastic grocery bags in 2007, supporters thought the state’s addiction to the flimsy carriers was ending. But since then just one other city, Malibu, has followed suit.
By Catherine Saillant, Los Angeles TimesMay 31, 2010
It took a while to get into the habit, but when Liz Wetton goes to the market, she [...]
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