How to Teach Children about Sustainability
Teaching children about sustainability is just as important at home as it is as school. Giving your children the proper knowledge and tools to live in the changing world is the best thing possible, and providing a good role model
Should Kids be Taught Sustainability in School?
The Waste to Energy team believes without a doubt that children should be taught sustainability not only at home but at school. Home and school are the two most important learning environments for children and it seems kids are demanding
Meet the Owner of Waste to Energy Systems, LLC
They say “When you change yourself, you change the future." This is true for Richard Woods, owner and founder of Waste to Energy Systems. His choice to change created a business that would not only improve his family's future but hopefully, the world's. Richard
What takes place in a gasification reactor?
The concept of converting waste to energy to help us heat and power our daily lives is pretty amazing. If we think back 50 years ago, the environmental movement was barely a blip on the radar. Now being environmentally friendly
How can my community become more eco-friendly?
More and more communities are moving toward an eco-friendly lifestyle. Sustainable living communities are popping up all over, where they are specially built to be as green and environmentally friendly as possible. So what do you do when your community
Green Roof Is An Age-Old Concept
GREEN building methods and materials are typically seen as "new-age" building solutions to age-old building problems. But one of the most visibly "green" building systems being used widely today - the "living roof" or "green roof" - has been in use
Why is Gasification better than Incineration?
To begin to answer this question, we first must take a look at what makes gasification and incineration different. Incineration is defined as high temperature destruction of waste (i.e. municipal solid waste) in a furnace to a non-burnable ash form that
How The Ocean Impacts Your Life
In honor of World Ocean Day, the Waste to Energy team wanted to dedicate our daily blog to why the oceans are so important and why we should protect them. Whether you are landlocked or live coastal, the oceans play
Top 10 Greenest Companies in the U.S.
Newsweek recently released it list of the top 10 greenest companies in the US. Let's take a look at the top 5 companies taking the biggest strides toward sustainable business and how they are doing it. 1. Biogen, one of the oldest and