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Save Money on Food

January 28, 2014
by Beth

Potato Pie with Sausage and Cheese? Yes, please! The picture looks yummy, but the best thing about Love Food Hate Waste is that it provides practical advice about turning those leftovers into...

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Green Breakfast at Glass House Inn

October 14, 2012
by Beth

No, it’s not green eggs and ham. It’s an eco-friendly continental breakfast at Glass House Inn in Erie, Pennsylvania. Never in all my years of travel have a seen a motel do it up this way...

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Go Plastic-Free This February

February 2, 2011
by Beth

I heard of Rodale’s Plastic-Free Challenge on the blog My Plastic Free Life. Like Zero Waste, Plastic-Free is an aspiration, not a reality. For example, I posted something on Facebook about the...

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Passive Houses

January 31, 2011
by Beth

This is a bit off-topic for this blog, but I thought readers might want to hear about houses that reduce energy consumption by 90 percent. According to Studio 804, which built a passive house in...

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Are Small Wind Turbines the Answer?

August 19, 2010
by Beth

While reading back issues of Sustainable Industries, I came across an article titled “Land of the Free? Permitting Woes Create Longer Timelines and Bigger Headaches for Renewable Energy...

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REI Versus the Grump

August 6, 2010
by Beth

I just got a cool new catalog from Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI), which has several stores in the Denver Metro area. I found things I liked in it, such as the Vibram Five-Fingers Multisport...

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Water Is the New Energy

July 22, 2010
by Beth

Gentle reader, you may have been scratching your head over that headline. I mean that water is becoming as hot a topic as green energy and oil spills and energy use and all that stuff. And I say...

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Nobody Is Making Us

July 9, 2010
by Beth

I often ask myself why Americans don’t recycle more. I’ve lived in my current home for 14 years and the same percentage of my neighbors recycle: about 30%, or 2 of the 6 families on the...

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Restoration Company? Interface Carpets

April 1, 2010
by Beth

I realized that to get to an economy that restores, the United States requires companies that restore. And I went  looking for such companies. An interview in Sustainable Industries magazine led me...

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Efficiency Is the New Sexy

March 31, 2010
by Beth

Just found what seems to be an enduring link to an August 2009 article from Science magazine: “Leaping the Efficiency Gap.” It is hopeful about energy efficiency, yet it captures the...

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Oceana Is Worth Checking Out

March 16, 2010
by Beth

From Organic Lifestyle magazine, I learned about Oceana, a nonprofit that since the early 2000s has been focusing on protecting the world’s oceans. Here’s some information from the...

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Zero Waste Academy in Kamikatsu, Japan

February 25, 2010
by Beth

From United magazine (February 2010): The village of Kamikatsu (2,000 residents), on the island of Shikoku in southwestern Japan, sorts waste into 34 categories, more than the 3 categories of...

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Second Homes and Habitat Loss

February 5, 2010
by Beth

Looking through an old issue of Nature Conservancy (Summer 2008), I read a brief article at the front of the book about vacation homes threatening habitat in Appalachia. As if Appalachia...

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Wetland Mitigation Banks: An Addendum

February 4, 2010
by Beth

When I was searching (with little success) for information on habitat loss caused by vacation/second homes, I came across a September 2003 article from Underwater Naturalist, “Protecting...

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Reducing Emissions Through Forest Preservation

February 4, 2010
by Beth

The last couple of years, there’s been talk about sequestering carbon in forests, but all that talk did not make its way to Copenhagen. Nevertheless, things are moving slowly on this front. The...

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The House of Representatives Conserves

January 22, 2010
by Beth

In June 2007 House Speaker Nancy Pelosi started Green the Capitol. The goal was to make the Capitol carbon-neutral by the beginning of 2009. That didn’t happen, but the House has started...

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Water Conservation and Rivers

January 18, 2010
by Beth

Here’s an interesting quote from “Watered Down,” an article by Ted Williams in the March-April 2009 issue of Audubon. Please note the series of which this article is a part is...

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Kansas City Recycles

January 1, 2010
by Beth

Kansas City—you know, the city where everything is up-to-date—has devised a creative solution to the problem that KC recyclers were not taking glass. The solution: Ripple Glass, which provides a...

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