Many state and local governments are heading towards financial insolvencyasa result of their state employee pension and retiree medicalliabilities.Consider an article from the October 18, 2010 issue ofBusinessweekmagazine:- According to a study by the University of Rochester andNorthwesternUniversity, there could up to as much as TRILLION in unfunded stateworkers’retirement liabilities. [...]

Changing people’s recycling habits can take many years, since peoplehavedifferent “levels of greenness”. According to the article, “Are allconsumers ready to ‘gogreen’?”, people have different attitudes about boththeir desire and needto become more environmentally concerned and aware.Manystates and cities are launching recycling campaigns to help educateconsumersabout the importance of recycling [...]