I keep a plastic bucket in my shower. No, it”™s not used to give sponge baths, but rather to collect a few gallons of the cold water that comes out when I turn on the hot water to take a shower. In the house that I just moved in to, I am very lucky to [...]
Dear EarthTalk: Are there efforts to increase bike lanes and paths around the nation? I’d like to be able to bike more instead of drive, but I’m concerned about safety. Around the U.S. new bike lanes and paths are all the rage, helping cash-strapped cities simultaneously green operations and trim budgets – adding bike lanes [...]
Dear EarthTalk: What’s being done to clean up hog farming operations in places like Iowa and North Carolina and others where the industry is quite large? I’ve heard horrific stories about man-made lagoons of animal waste spilling into and fouling rivers and groundwater and the like. Hog farming has always been a messy business, but [...]
In preparation of my upcoming move, I am cleaning out my closet – literally. I am donating all sorts of “cold weather” clothes that I have collected over the past 2 years of living in snow country, and only keeping the few things I need to be comfortable when I go back east to visit [...]
I have always thought that the buying of carbon offset credits was a waste of money, but now I have confirmation. Heifer International’s (one of my favorite charities) WorldArk magazine, which you can read online right here, has an article about carbon offsets that says what I have been saying all along – “It sounds [...]
Having a bad day? Stuck in traffic? Bank account running a little low? A little warm inside your 2,000 square foot home today? Life can be rough some days for those of us in the First World (I hate that expression, but it’s the only one that works), and more often than not we turn [...]
Dear EarthTalk: Should I fear radiation exposure associated with medical scans such as CT scans, mammograms and the like? The short answer is – maybe. Critics of the health care industry postulate that our society’s quickness to test for disease may in fact be causing more of it, especially in the case of medical scans. [...]
