News
Recycling
The Tulsa Authority for Recovery of Energy (TARE) recently funded a study on trash collection. Currently the city provides once a week pick up for 22,000 homes in Northwest Tulsa, with Tulsa Refuse, Inc. (a private company) serving 95,500 homes in the rest of the city twice a week. Recyc...read more »
Transportation Alternatives
Federal stimulus funding may provide grants for the Metropolitan Tulsa Transit Authority to buy or convert to compressed natural gas busses. This is good news because natural gas is produced both worldwide and domestically at relatively low cost and is cleaner burning than gasoline or diesel f...read more »
Recovery Funds
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 will fund more than 200 civil works projects totaling more than $125 million in the Tulsa District of the U.S. Corps of Engineers. In addition, the Oklahoma Department of Commerce has recommended 24 energy-efficient projects in Tulsa to be approved...read more »
Alternative Energy Resources
The brainchild of native Oklahoman and OSU graduate T. Boone Pickens, the Pickens Plan proposes a blueprint to reduce foreign oil dependence by harnessing domestic energy alternatives such as wind power, conserving energy and better utilizing natural gas resources. Proponents say the plan woul...read more »
2009 Economic Recovery Funds
The Oklahoma Department of Commerce has established a website to provide information about the $2.6 billion in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) that will come to Oklahoma through the Oklahoma Department of Commerce. www.okcommerce.gov/recovery. The site also inclu...read more »
Bottle Bill proposed
Bottle Bill Heard about the Bottle Bill discussion in the news lately? Here are some helpful Web sites with great information: http://www.bottlebill.org/http://www.container-recycling.org/issues/bottlebills.htmhttp://earth911.com/blog/2007/09/21/explaining-the-bottle-bill/http://en.wikipedia.org...read more »