Why do people need dish...

Why do people need dishwashers? This is a question I ask myself every time I read about dishwasher uses and dishwasher safe detergents and dishwashers that work on more or less energy, and why people are using dishwashers for whatever purpose is now confusing. If you are in the...
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Recycle Reminder List

Recycle Reminder List...

Post this list at work, on the fridge, in the purse, wherever you need a reminder to live more greenly. Compare notes with friends. Review your progress at the end of the week. 1 Use a fast food beverage cup until it breaks. If you order to go, don’t quash the cup in the trash...
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Green Songs

Green Songs...

An ecoTunes Playlist That Won’t Make You Cringe Gathering from all corners of the musical map–bluegrass ballads, black-metal dirges, pop sarcasm, and classic folk anthems–Bookmark this set of songs in favor of not trashing the planet, in the order we’d play...
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Bad Economy, Good Greening

Bad Economy, Good Green...

Although it’s a message no-one wants to hear, the economic downturn of the consumer spending and local and national reduction of consumer spending and property accretion is working toward environmental goals, not against them.   What would be ideal would be if the positive...
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Waterless Lawning

Waterless Lawning...

This Old Garden The greening of lawncare has got to be one of the sharpest and most impactful pain points in the cuture today. Maintaining the strip of green lawn in frot of the hosue, in the back yard, or throughout the estate has long been a yardstick of success and happiness. Status...
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The Dishwasher is for DISHWASHING

The Dishwasher is for D...

I take exception to the growing trend of urging folks to use their dishwasher to perform services or render effects the machine was not built for.  Dishwashers, electric or not, conservational or not, are the lazy man’s luxury as it is. But why would you go to the trouble...
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Recycling Craft Vogue

Recycling Craft Vogue...

The craft fair I attended today was rife with recycling gift ideas, some of them on the supply side. Used pairs of jeans transformed into handbags, and jewelry from deconstructed clothing. Lots of things that could have been made from re-used other materials. The vogue for re-used...
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Recycled Halloween Costumes

Recycled Halloween Cost...

Reduce & Re-Use. The best Halloween costume is a recycled one. Making a Halloween costume out of any recycled material is better than generating consumption of one more acetate creation meant to be thrown away. The statistics on the waste Halloween alone creates are frightening. 1....
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Placedness and Suburban Reduction

Placedness and Suburban...

A piece in a new issue of Business Week hit on the reduction dynamic taking place in American residential habits. What the author calls “localism sounds very green. Kotkin’s piece thoughtfully traces scholarly leftovers of the Chicago School’s emerging ecologies...
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Solar Decathlon Winners

Solar Decathlon Winners...

Team California won the Solar Decathlon in Washington D. C., for Architecture and Communications, and the University of Lousiana at Lafayette for won for Market Viability. More categorical wins will be announced. The Solar Decathlon houses will be open in the National Mall for public...
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