recycling

Steve Jobs promised to make Apple a greener company. With the MacBook due for a redesign, AppleInsider reports the new laptop enclosure will be crafted of aluminum and stainless steel, similar to the company's other current offerings. Thus will end almost two decades of

plastic Apple laptops spanning from the original Mac Portable released in 1989 (pictured above). New MacBooks and MacBook Pros should start shipping in the second half of 2008. Apple's industrial design cycle is typically 18-24 months, and the latest plastic MacBook was first released

The farm of the future is not a farm. It's a building. Thirty stories of hydroponics and chicken coops, running on wind power and recycled city wastewater. Nothing else would guarantee a steady food supply in these times of climate change, drought,

deforestation, topsoil depletion and pesticide-polluted runoff. Dr. Dickson Despommier at Columbia University believes his Vertical Farm Project is the solution to these problems, and will be profitable to boot.

You may be familiar with this situation: the treads of your sneakers are wearing down and the overall look has become rather dull. It's time to get a new pair of sneakers but you feel bad about throwing out the old ones because, after all, they still work just fine. You think you will put them away and use them

the next time you are involved with a messy job, but that's what you thought about your last pair, and the pair before that. Now you have a closet full of old, worn but still perfectly wearable sneakers. Recycled Runners offers an alternative to simply throwing them out or stockpiling them in your house.

Recycledrunners.com has put together a Shoe Donation Directory that provides a host of domestic and