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11 more GM facilities worldwide go landfill-free; total up to 122

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The running total is 122 manufacturing and non-manufacturing operations spanning Asia, Europe, and South and North America that recycle, reuse or convert to energy all waste from daily operations. Colmotores Assembly (Colombia). Luton Warehouse attributes its success to a robust training initiative that drove a zero-waste culture.

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Global Bioenergy Partnership publishes report on 24 sustainability indicators for bioenergy: electricity, heat and transport

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The Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) has published its report on sustainability indicators for bioenergy. In the meantime, the Partnership is proceeding with piloting projects in Indonesia, Colombia and Ghana. Percentages of bioenergy from yield increases, residues, wastes and degraded or contaminated land. Earlier post.)

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Forecast: Global Biofuels Use to Double by 2015, Second-Gen Biofuels to Lag Expectations

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Despite a number of key issues such as land use and competition for feedstocks supplies for traditional food and feed uses, global use of biofuels is excepted to more than double from 2009 to 2015, according to a new global analysis released by Hart Energy Publishing’s Global Biofuels Center (GBC). billion gallons).

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This IEEE Service-Learning Program Is More Popular Than Ever

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EPICS in IEEE has played a key role in expanding the global reach of projects in which engineering students bring their learning and skills to bear in addressing challenges faced by their local communities,” says Leah Jamieson , 2007 IEEE president and a cofounder of EPICS at Purdue, which is in West Lafayette, Ind. “It

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