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21 Dec

Minden residents want relocated, ask governor for help

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21 Dec

Shame On All Of Us: Our Plastic Is Polluting Marine Life Found 36,000 Ft Below Ocean Surface

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The impact we as humans have on our planet is tremendous. PCBs, PBDEs, and microplastics have been found contaminating marine ...

21 Dec

Michigan to work with EPA to monitor toxic groundwater

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A toxic plume is seeping dioxins into groundwater around Ann Arbor, MI. ...

21 Dec

Scott Pruitt on a mission to change the climate of the EPA

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Scott Pruitt's actions as EPA Director include a revamping of the agency's internal culture as well as a prioritization of Superfund site cleanups. ...

21 Dec

Wisconsin Finds 240 More Impaired Waterways

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Over 200 new waterways impaired by toxic chemicals have been added to a list of areas designated by Wisconsin's Department of Natural Resources. ...

21 Dec

State study faults Hudson PCB cleanup

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Basil Seggos, commissioner of New York's Department of Environmental Conservation, has declared the state's research and samples of PCBs taken from the Hudson River prove that cleanup at the nation's...

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Why Do Partnerships Fail, and How Can I Build Successful Ones?

Here’s a mind-blowing fact about the human brain for you: despite being made up of roughly 73% water, there are over 86 billion neurons in your brain that are traveling around 150 miles per hour in order to allow you to understand the sentence......

October 16, 2019
WTFAQ is “Purpose-Driven-Profit”?

Let’s not beat around the bush: corporations get a lot of flak. The word “corporate” draws up visions of a tightly-knit uniform culture involving a lot of strange verbiages, dry-cleaned suits, and a spectrum of forms with all variety of three-letter acronyms. The bohemian......

September 27, 2019
ecoSPEARS CEO Wins Orlando Business Journal “40 Under 40” 2019 Award

As Central Florida’s community and economy continue to grow, so too does its population of brilliant young entrepreneurial, business, and communal leaders. Each year, Orlando Business Journal (OBJ) holds a ceremony to identify and honor forty of the region’s most outstanding community and business......

September 26, 2019
10 Reasons You Need to Fail Before Funding Your Startup

You’ve been in this scenario before: someone – be it a stranger, friend, or family member – approaches you and tells you about this amazing idea they have for a new product or service. You may nod your head and agree that it sounds......

September 18, 2019
A Toxic Storm Brewing in the Tropics

As of 12:00 pm on Friday, August 30th, Hurricane Dorian is projected to swell to a Category 4 storm before it makes landfall on Florida’s Atlantic coastline early Labor Day morning on Monday, September 2nd. These projections come roughly 48 hours after Florida Governor......

August 30, 2019
Old Problem, New Solution

Hey there, ecoREADERS! I know it’s been a little while since we’ve had one of these blog posts, and your patience and continued following of us, our posts, and our journey is appreciated beyond words. That being said, this post is going to be......

August 15, 2019
ecoSPEARS Announces Michael J. Dickey as Director of Applied Technologies

Seasoned Professional Engineer Joins Cleantech Company Ushering in the Carbonless Future of Environmental Cleanup ecoSPEARS, a cleantech solutions company with transformative NASA-developed environmental cleanup technologies, announced today that Michael J. Dickey is joining the company as Director of Applied Technologies. Dickey brings over 20......

August 7, 2019
PORT OF SAN DIEGO ACCEPTS ECOSPEARS INTO BLUE INCUBATOR PROGRAM FOR GREEN REMEDIATION TECHNOLOGY

Orlando-based cleantech venture ecoSPEARS has recently announced it is in discussion with the award-winning Port of San Diego to join the Port’s Blue Economy Incubator Program. According to the Port’s website, the program exists, “to assist in the creation, early development, and initial scaling of......

July 2, 2019
NASA Selects ecoSPEARS to Showcase Green Technology at Capital Hill

On June 6th, ecoSPEARS left Orlando, Florida and headed to Washington, D.C. to represent NASA on Capitol Hill. The exposition, “NASA Technology Day on the Hill”, highlighted a handful of NASA-developed technologies that have been commercialized for impacts in global markets to shape our......

June 20, 2019
ecoSPEARS joins United Nations PCB Elimination Network (PEN)

Hey there, ecoSPEARS readers! We hope each of you have a healthy, clean, and green 2019 so far! It’s been an exciting year for us so far and we wanted to share some of the good news on some of the big moves we’ve made......

May 30, 2019