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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...