The "ice" surfaces are manufactured by Mitsubishi plastics and are being marketed as a way to keep costs down while increasing the number of rinks in Japan, as skating booms in popularity for its athletes. Ice rinks are closing due to economic strain, and the fabricated rinks can save operators roughly $190,000 U.S. annually in both air conditioning and water bills.

Here's a video from environmentalist Bob Lilienfeld on reduce, reuse and recycle. The volume of this video isn't very loud, but with your speakers turned up you should be able to hear this informative video.

ON Networks Green Mainstream channel presents us with another informative high-quality video on green living. In this episode, home builder Alex Pettitt teaches both the recycling process on both a build site and at the office.

In this webepisode you can watch Annabelle Gurwitch's recycling road trip. Annabelle decided to find out what kind of a journey recycling takes from dumpster to land field. You can watch her ride along in a garbage truck and dumpster dive in neighbor's recycling bins.

What items have you thrown away that haunt you to this day?