To help me keep track and to hold me accountable, this year I am going to track all my utility expenses for the year. I am hoping that by doing so, I can encourage everyone to look at their bills and see just how much energy and water you use on a daily basis – [...]
Dear EarthTalk: What are the primary environmental concerns in the aftermath of the big earthquake in Haiti? As would be the case after any natural disaster, water-borne illness could run rampant and chemicals and oil could leak out of damaged storage facilities as a result of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake that ripped apart Haiti on [...]
Dear EarthTalk: What’s better for the local ecology, sewers or septic tanks? You probably won’t have much choice as to whether that home you’re thinking of buying is on sewer or septic. Most likely it’s a done deal, unless the neighborhood is presently all on septic but is considering a petition to the town to [...]
Sometimes, you come across a website you had never seen before but wish you had made yourself. Two days ago I found the website for The ULS Report – The Use Less Stuff Report, which aims to help people use less stuff in order to reduce waste and conserve resources. They have developed an easy [...]
No, it’s not a new Special Forces group in the U.S. military…but it does sometimes occur under the cover of darkness. Coined in 1973 by Liz Christy, “seed grenades” were made as a way of introducing vegetation to empty lots in NYC in order to make the city look better. First made from condoms filled [...]
There is a big movement afoot to “legalize” the line drying of your laundry. Shamefully, it is actually illegal in many places around the U.S. to hang your clothes out to dry. Some people complain that it lowers their property value or it makes them feel as though they live in a ghetto because they [...]
Earlier this month, I received this email from reader Gene Steele: “I would like to submit an article regarding the need for the older generations to step up and teach the youth about the damaged earth that we created for them with disposable plastics and plastic bags and the efforts of many senior citizens to [...]
