The average American generate 1600 pounds of garbage a year. Try to imagine no electricity, no TV, an experiment in extreme no impact consumerism. No plastic razors and and no soda pop. Can people do it? Can people living in New York City do it? For a year? Eating nutritionally...

Fast food is not as fast as you think. The “Slow food” movement will gain legs when people understand what the slowness means. The processing and packaging of fast food ingredients takes time and instills an expiration date on the “fresh” ingredients. Did...

Recycling as an activity can raise money and contribute to a lessened carbon footprint. Incidences that need correcting do crop up, and when they do it is appropriate to step up the communication about green living. The freedom to discard trash is crossed with anti-litter and refuse...

Dumpster Deadlock East Coast trash problems are causing plants to run into overdrive just as the need to reduce energy is paramount. The war on pollution means shutting down pollution problem incinerators. Burning versus burial for trash has been a debate that many environmental watchdogs...

Rubbish, The Archeology of Garbage covers everything from soft drink can pull-tab typology  to incinerator gas flyash. The depth and saturation of knowledge makes the material worth mastering. Are we really ruining our water tables for landfills teeming with disposable diapers and...

  Take a look at what kind of opportunities there are for you to recycle around the house. Look for things you throw out and analyze how much of this you could be reducing. But also the responsibility for green living occurs when dining out. Commercial and retail standards are notoriously...