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Only a few hours' drive from Mongolia's capital Ulaaanbaatar, where the smokestacks of power plants darken the skyline and cars snarled in traffic honk day and night, there lies a tranquil paradise where such human hustle never intrudes. Hustai National Park sprawls across hills that fold up from the earth and recede to a distant blue haze in a ...

Legions of apartment dwellers will soon be asked - and may eventually be ordered - to start collecting food scraps for composting, under Mayor Michael Bloomberg's latest bid to make the Big Apple greener. After launching a test program recently in 3,500 Staten Island homes and some Manhattan apartment buildings, city officials said Monday they ...

The National Resource Defense Council estimates that about 40 percent of all food in the United States goes uneaten; that's about 20 pounds of food wasted per person each month. The next two editions of The Food Journal will examine the reasons why this occurs and will review the various programs trying to remedy it."According to studies, the ...

Clarke Energy is assisting Agrivert to produce renewable energy from Oxfordshire Council’s waste. Agrivert’s new Wallingford Anaerobic digestion facility is helping to deliver a sustainable solution to both waste treatment and renewable energy production in Oxfordshire. The anaerobic digester processes food waste collected from ...

As World Environment Day (WED) celebrations took place throughout this week in the imposing Sukhbaatar Square in the capital of host country Mongolia, famous landmarks on the other side of the world have also embraced the 2013 theme, 'Think.Eat.Save Reduce Your Foodprint'. A new video being screened to hundreds of thousands of tourists and ...

Bureau Veritas Consumer Products Services (BVCPS)( http://www.bureauveritas.com/cps ) has announced it will again celebrate and support World Environment Day (WED)( ...

Today, Sealed Air Corporation (NYSE: SEE) joins the efforts of World Environment Day (WED) to increase awareness and encourage action to eliminate food waste. This annual, one-day awareness initiative is aimed at being the biggest and most widely celebrated global day for positive environmental action. With more than 1.3 billion tons of food ...

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) on Wednesday announced that Mongolia would be one of the first countries in the Partnership for Action on the Green Economy (PAGE)?a major new initiative to assist the global transition to a green economy. Speaking during celebrations of World Environment Day in Ulaanbaatar?the capital of this year's host ...

We live in a world of plenty, where food production outstrips demand, yet 870 million people are undernourished and childhood stunting is a silent pandemic. To create the future we want, we must correct this inequity. We must ensure access to adequate nutrition for all, double the productivity of smallholder farmers who grow the bulk of food in ...