Posts Tagged ‘Municipalities’

Green keeps us out of the red

Re: They only talk green, May 14 letters. It is understandable why municipalities act black while talking green. Building homes, stores and offices adds to property-tax bases and generates development and other fees, keeping tax loads on existing homes and businesses down.


Trash cans dumped for sun-powered compactors – USATODAY.com

A growing number of cities and municipalities are testing solar-powered trash compactors as a way to go green and save some green.


Ghost of Garbage

             Landfills everywhere are nearing and surpassing capacity and leaching harmful chemicals into the ground and water. Cities and municipalities are now looking into alternative ways to deal with garbage or send it to someone else to deal with. The worst part is that the majority of what ends up in landfills shouldn’t get there in the first place. Imagine if each person on the planet was responsible for keeping all of the waste they create in their lives and carrying it around with the

Closer look at smart charging

Another day passes at the Plug-in 2009 conference in Long Beach, with another glimpse of how we may be driving the vehicles of the future. GrindPoint Inc and Coulomb Technologies joined forces to demonstrate smart grid enabled smart charging stations for electric vehicles. Their solution uses Coulomb’s ChargePoint Networked Charging Stations and GridPoint’s smart charging software in a bid to extend how utilities and municipalities manage vehicle charging load. The impressive infrastructure


10 Lanzarote Beaches – General

Lanzarote offers a variety of beaches with white sand and black, quiet and disheveled, and the waters are, as you may expect, is distributed over the entire coast of the island. More of my articles to be discussed in more detail, the most beautiful beaches in each of the seven municipalities (article 11-17) and are part of a broader portfolio information, I am for the guests. Where is the best beach then? As my home-from-home “is in the south of the island, Playa Blanca, in the municipalit


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