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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...