Recycling in Practice

Recycling in Practice...

Ever wonder at the discrepancy between media reports and actual practice of recycling? Commodity prices per pound are down, and subsidies for some materials have been reduced.  But re-uses for these goods can still be directed with some elbow grease (and freight trucks). Since...
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Green Underbelly

Green Underbelly...

  The layers of industrialized manufacture, transportation of finished product and shipment, delivery of raw materials, and by-products of the manufacturing process lie behind every smoothly wrapped, brightly printed piece of merchandise. That is the model that made America famous.   If...
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Green Can-Do List

Green Can-Do List...

A list of things to do, items to buy, practices to observe and/or communications to make and projects to do  regarding sustainability. 1. Sign the Greenpeace petition Global warming is an environmental crisis the likes of which we’ve never faced before. And given the powerful...
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Hip And Sustainable Messaging

Hip And Sustainable Mes...

  The Los Angeles MTA (Metro Transit Authority) has just launched some extremely edgy, hip, completely effective advertising spots. Of all the ways the MTA has launched construction mania and smoke belching dusty rail construction, the buck (or token) stops here. These videos prove...
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Squish Patrol Micro-Maneuvers

Squish Patrol Micro-Man...

Bugs in the summer may amuse your kids, but these buzzing, biting and zooming nonpaying renters can take up residence in the garden and kill your summer herbfest faster than you can “chemically inorganic”. Don’t feed the critters, just the daisies. Organic gardeners...
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Green Property Management

Green Property Manageme...

Responsible property managers and home owners in sustainable cities need to rethink conventional approaches to grounds maintenance and classical landscaping practices and meet the changing standards of environmental conditions and water quality management.   Methods of green landscaping,...
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Green Eco Renovation

Green Eco Renovation...

The above image should illustrate that as a consumer culture the time has come to shed ignorance in matters of daily consumption and move toward permanent green living. An ice cream truck, whch costs energy above the basic fuel and pollution cost, operates while the driver leisurely...
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Sierra Clubbing

Sierra Clubbing...

I just got my Sierra Club newsletter and I thought I would share some special bits. Normally I never have time to read a lot of newsletters because I don’t have time, they are poorly designed, or they have a lot of information not as important as any task I need to get completed...
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Ecomodder.com

Ecomodder.com...

Ecomodder is all about eco cars. For car fans and wheel lovers and mobile enthusiasts who like a bit of sustainable science fiction  eco friendly car with their wheels,  www.ecomodder.com is for you. Browse the articles, favorite some bookmarks and sign up for the RSS feed. Not...
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Creative Energy Charges

Creative Energy Charges...

Certain cities are growing more progressive in their utility billing in an effort to sponsor solar organic and sustainable living practices by cost conscious homeowners. The City of Los Angeles is profiled as one such metropolitan community managing its consumer base in a manner...
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