No doubt fruit foraging is happening somewhere, somehow in Denver, but I don’t know about it. In the meantime, you can get an edible forest planted in Kansas City, and you can go forage for...
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...
Don’t grow transplants in those cheap plastic pots (the ones that crackle between your fingers with the slightest bit of pressure) and then throw away the pots when you’ve moved the...
Birds eating plastic—that was not news to me. But I hadn’t heard about whales unwittingly consuming plastic while feeding, as indicated by this article on Real News 24. It makes sense. If the...
Kansas City has been testing my resolve to use less plastic. One night my sister and I went to the deli at Jasper’s, a famous Italian restaurant now located in south Kansas City, and ordered...
MillerCoors in Golden used to produce 135 tons of trash per month. Now they send none to the landfill. None. That’s almost enough to make me drink Coors. MillerCoors Brewery Now Recycles All...
In mid-September, the northern Front Range of Colorado (the eastern side of the Rocky Mountains) received more rain than it does in a year. The week of September 9, rain fell continuously for about...
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...
The Problem: How Plastic Becomes Pollution Plastic collects in lakes, rivers, and the ocean. It breaks down in sunlight (photo-degrades) into small pieces. Birds such as albatrosses, turtles, and...
The Local Food Summit in Denver, organized by the Mile High Business Alliance, was informative and great fun. But the strongest memory I took from it is of the woman who asked this question at the...
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...
Went for my first trash walk today, 3 blocks west on Ellsworth, across the street, and then back again. I spent most of my time picking up trash on the edge of the street near the sidewalk, including...
I’ve updated the About page on this blog and checked the links. Soon I will begin providing examples of DIY restoration projects. All the old posts are still up, so you can still browse them...
I’m working on changing this blog into more of a how-to site that tells people how to do little restoration projects on their own or get involved with groups that do bigger projects. Since...
As an obsessive recycler, I look for recycling facilities wherever I go. I tried to find them in Baton Rouge when Todd had surgery on his ear, and I think I succeeded, though I apparently left no...
Here are a couple of interesting posts from the Chemicals and Nanomaterials blog written by Environmental Defense Fund. The first one I’m linking to here describes the process the European...
Todd and I sold our house on Wednesday and left Broomfield, Colorado, on Thursday. We put some things in a 10 by 15 storage unit, but most of what we owned ended up being given away, sold, or...
Mexican poet Homero Aridjis has been working to save Monarch Butterflies for decades. He was one of the people who persuaded the Mexican government to create the Monarch Butterfly Biosphere Reserve...
Bees, bats, birds, and amphibians have been experiencing declines worldwide since the mid-1990s, but the problem has become truly terrible since the early 2000s. Researchers have noticed these...
On Saturday I hiked up Spruce Gulch, off Left Hand Canyon Road in Boulder, to see the weed research and eradication projects being conducted there. Tim Seastedt, a professor of ecology and...
The National Forest Foundation will spend the next five years planting trees in an area of Angeles National Forest that was scorched to the dirt. The Station Fire, alleged to be arson, started in...
Inspiration. It’s what we all need, right? So head on over to Midway Journey on Facebook. A small group of people traveled to Midway Atoll to take still pictures and video of the birds of...
California nonprofit 5 Gyres Institute will conduct a study of the plastic pollution in the South Pacific Gyre, sailing a boat from Valdivia, Chile, to Easter Island. The group has already sailed...
The main thing that concerns me about the United States right now is its political and military culture, how we seem to be pressing full steam ahead with what I think are dangerous projects (DP). The...
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...