A Sustainable Lunch is a Happy Lunch: Seven Tips For Success
No commentsA simple and unfortunate fact is: lunch is one of the most wasteful times of the day. Between fast food cartons, microwave meals in loads of pre-packaging, and a proliferation of disposable brown paper sacks, mountains of garbage collect across the country between noon and 1PM. We’ve touched on this topic before, but every new [...]
Recycle Your Cell Phone For Earth Day!
No commentsDo you know what you’re doing to contribute your part for Earth Day? The Environmental Protection Agency has an idea! Even though Earth Day is a couple of weeks away, EPA is teaming up with several telecom conglomerates to promote Earth Week from today through the 12th, an event designed to raise awareness of e-waste [...]
Tags: activism, cell phones, conservation, e-cycling, e-waste, environmental policy, EPA, recycling
Earth Hour Aftermath
No commentsLast Friday we posted about Earth Hour — a global event, taking place this past Saturday night, in which everyone was encouraged to turn off their lights for one hour in a bid to make an impact on the environment. It was the subject of much controversy as some rallied behind it while others ranted [...]
Tags: activism, conservation, Earth Hour, environmental policy, opinion, opinions, photography
Oregon Coast Clean-Up Goes Swimmingly
No commentsIt seems like the blogosphere is abuzz this morning with news about the 24th annual SOLV Great Oregon Spring Beach Cleanup conducted this past weekend along the entirety of Oregon’s coast. Over 4,300 volunteers showed up along the 362-mile stretch of shoreline, despite being plagued by stormy weather, ready to rid their beloved beaches of [...]
Tags: activism, beach clean-up, conservation, environmental policy, Happenings, ocean, Oregon, plastic, plastics, reusable bags, SOLV, Surfrider Foundation, trash
Bottled Water Backlash in London
No commentsDisposable plastic bags are capable of drawing massive ire from the eco-conscious wherever they show up, but bottled water isn’t very far behind at all. In the United Kingdom especially, bottles of water are looked to as the next target for banishment, and headway is already being made: the Thames Valley District school board is [...]
Tags: bottled water, England, environmental policy, London, plastic, plastics, school, UK
Going Green to Get Green with the CW
No commentsThe CW: a dangerous television station indeed, as it is home to a wide variety of hopelessly addicting shows. Luckily for the environment, the station has decided to use its hypnotic powers for something productive. With their Green Your World contest, you can tell the CW how you would make your neighborhood greener and earn [...]
More Ski Towns Join the Telluride Challenge
No commentsIsn’t it exciting when towns actually get positive and proactive about eco-awareness? We’ve reported a couple of times before on the friendly ski town reusable bag competition going on between Telluride and Aspen, but things over there just keep getting better. According to Vail Daily, three more towns have joined the challenge to save the [...]
Plastic Bag Bans Come to Temecula: One Teen Takes On City Council
No commentsThe power that teenagers can have over change in the world is often vastly underrated. Caught between childlike idealism and adult activism, they are practically the embodiment of change itself. A few miles north of us in Temecula, CA, one teenager is using her voice and ambition for a noble cause: the end of free [...]
Greening Up Dry Cleaning With Garmento!
No commentsHow often do we think about dry cleaning bags? Probably not all that much in comparison to everything else in the world — but maybe we should. After all, we may not receive them with the quantity or frequency of a plastic grocery shopping bag, but they are superfluous plastic bags nonetheless and eventually they [...]
Plastic Bag Usage Curbed in UK!
No commentsIn an effort to stave off mandatory plastic bag tax or banning in the UK two years ago, 21 major supermarkets and chain stores made a pact to cut bag waste by 25 percent. Now the results are in from 2008′s usage, and sure enough: not only did the shops meet the quota, they exceeded [...]
