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Point-Counterpart: To Incinerate or Not to Incinerate

27 May, 2009 | Richard Gilbert and Mark Winfield

Richard Gilbert opens

Waste is what we have used and have no further use for. Incinerating waste, I believe, is a better environmental solution than landfilling.

Only a limited amount of waste occurs in nature. Animals produce waste in the form of faeces, which, in turn, provide nutrients for other parts of the ecosystem. In contrast, we humans appropriate and discard major material flows beyond what is required for our metabolism and beyond what our local ecosystems can handle.

Reusing Cities

27 May, 2009 | Marc Denhez

Most discussions of urban sustainability don’t mention buildings. This is like trying to discuss forests without talking about trees. If we have policies to reuse or recycle items as small as pop bottles and tin cans, shouldn’t we have strategies to reuse items as large as buildings, neighbourhoods and cities, instead of carting them away in dumpsters? ...

Editorial: From Bottles to Buildings

27 May, 2009 | Robert Shipley and Jason Kovacs

During the 2006 World Planners Congress in Vancouver, delegates raised an important question during a round-table talk on sustainable urbanization. They asked, if we have policies to recycle items as small as pop bottles and tin cans, why don’t we have strategies to reuse or recycle items as large as buildings and even whole parts of cities?

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