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Pengrowth Energy Trust Announces Second Quarter 2008 Results

Marketwire Canada
August 06, 2008 - During the second quarter, Pengrowth continued with the pilot facility equipment evaluation and facility engineering work. A significant portion of the company's accounts receivable are with customers in the oil and gas industry and are subject to normal industry credit risks. Pengrowth maintains a $1.2 billion unsecured syndicated extendible revolving term credit facility and a $50 million demand operating line of credit. ...
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1.) Scrape plates. 2.) Enhance the earth Coffee-house manager works to recruit businesses and establish citywide composting service

Winston-Salem Journal
August 06, 2008 - ...can be composted. Large-scale commercial operations generate enough heat to compost meat, seafood and bone, materials not recommended for backyard composting, but restaurants would still have to filter out plastic, glass and metal scraps. Each participating restaurant would also need a secure container to store compostable scraps until pickup. Finding people willing to haul the waste is the biggest obstacle to starting a composting program, said Brian Rosa, an organic-recycling......
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It's a small, small world Socks that don't stink. Clothes that repel stains. Golf clubs that hit balls longer and straighter. As we exploit the riches of nanotechnology, do we know the consequences?

Star Tribune
August 05, 2008 - And some materials go where they're not supposed to. One study shows manufactured nanoparticles in nature could be trouble. ...
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Coffee manager brainstorms with others to start city-wide composting program

Winston-Salem Journal
August 05, 2008 - ...can be composted. Large-scale commercial operations generate enough heat to compost meat, seafood and bone, materials not recommended for backyard composting, but restaurants would still have to filter out plastic, glass and metal scraps. Each participating restaurant would also need a secure container to store compostable scraps until pick up. Finding people willing to haul the waste is the biggest obstacle to starting a composting program, said Brian Rosa, an organic recycling......
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Recycling industry hit hard as Chinese firms pay top dollar for used plastic

The Yomiuri Shimbun
August 05, 2008 - However, due to recent oil-price-led rises in the cost of raw materials, demand for plastics made of recycled materials instead of those made of crude oil has increased. ...
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Green homes a growing trend

CNN
August 05, 2008 - Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry displays a rooftop garden, drainage system and solar-paneled roof. This year, green building is expected to represent 6 percent of the residential construction industry, according to a survey conducted by McGraw-Hill Construction Research & Analytics for the U.S. Green Building Council. Watch how a former bank turned "green" » "It is happening. ...
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Push is on to green up the gardening industry

Chicago Tribune
August 04, 2008 - Though a substantial proportion of the plastic resin that goes into the larger, sturdier pots is recycled from other sources, not much of that gets reused or recycled again. At cowpots.com.Some gardeners aren't waiting for the horticultural industry to move. Louis that recycled more than 100,000 pounds of garden plastic into landscape timber in 2007. ...
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Going green a growing trend among homeowners in the U.S.

The Canadian Press
August 04, 2008 - It can be a regular Craftsman house or a Cape Cod house in New England or an adobe house in Santa Fe. ...
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It's a small, small world Socks that don't stink. Clothes that repel stains. Golf clubs that hit balls longer and straighter. As we exploit the riches of nanotechnology, do we know the consequences?

Star Tribune
August 04, 2008 - And some materials go where they're not supposed to. One study shows manufactured nanoparticles in nature could be trouble. ...
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Outlook optimistic for manufacturing sector in Erie, Pa., area

Erie Times-News
August 04, 2008 - In the past five years, the county has lost just 200 manufacturing jobs overall, according to an analysis by the Economic Research Institute of Erie. Five years later, 8,000 Crawford County residents work in manufacturing. Brian Dean, president of Nu-Tec Tooling Systems Inc. in Meadville, saw it happen. Employment at his company fell to a low of 28 a few years ago. ...
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