Park University hosted the 2018 MiddleMoot in Kansas City, the first in the metro area and the second after a moot in Waterloo, Iowa, in 2017. I was fortunate enough to be allowed, and even...
Reusable kitchen products have always interested me, ever since the days when my father saved paper napkins to reuse at his next meal. I prefer cloth napkins to paper, and dishtowels to paper towels...
I read Joel Makower’s interview with William McDonough on Green Biz and felt that I had met a kindred spirit—about packaging, that is. McDonough is a designer, an architect, an entrepreneur...
Last October, Todd and I visited a salad joint in the DC metro area called Sweet Green. It’s not all that unusual to see compostable cups these days, but not every restaurant actually composts...
A good sign, eh? When car sharing makes it into popular street fairs? I’m proud that Denver is such a green city. This year, the People’s Fair (organized by Capitol Hill United...
For my first post on this subject, I present two products: Breezesta patio furniture, made from recycled milk jugs and water bottles. It’s an example of “closing the loop” with...
As part of Rodale’s Plastic-Free February, I have been looking for items that don’t contain plastic. Although I have not succeeded in avoiding plastic during the first two weeks of February, I have...