I wish the weather would make up it’s mind about what time of year it is. 65 degrees one day, snow and sleet the next. It’s hard to make plans when such crazy changes happen in less than 24 hours! Are any of you guys having a weird winter like this too? [...]
When it’s time to pull that old carpet up and either replace it or go for the wood/concrete look, what can you do with it? Should you just throw it in the landfill like everyone used to do? Nope – you should recycle it! According to the Carpet America Recovery Effort, nearly [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is about those little maps and pamphlets you pick up when you visit a new place. The first thing you do when you arrive is to grab the map and the informational brochure and head out to explore the area – you know the drill. But if you [...]
Each and every week I get PR emails about supposedly “green” products, and while most of them are OK, some of them are just plain absurd. Last week I got an email from a PR agency about a new kind of bottle that is purportedly reusable, recyclable, and biodegradable…but yet is still made out [...]
As of this morning, we are no longer having our trash picked up at our home. For those of you who have never had trash pickup at their house, this is no big deal; you have been dragging your own trash to the landfill for years. For those of us who have had [...]
The following is a guest post by David Piller at Hemp For Humanity.
Hey now, what are we gonna do, now we’ve seen an Inconvenient Truth?
It’s time to shake off all the sand, rise on up and take a stand.
We all know that we’re facing problems. Open minds will be what helps us solve [...]
Dear EarthTalk: What is the “green cities” movement?
Best described as a loose association of cities focused on sustainability, the emerging “green cities movement” encompasses thousands of urban areas around the world all striving to lessen their environmental impacts by reducing waste, expanding recycling, lowering emissions, increasing housing density while expanding open space, and encouraging [...]
