Rethink Your Water Heater

The longer this recession drones on, the more we all should seriously investigate the options available to us in every facet of our lives. This is particularly true in terms of the nature and expense of how we heat, cool and otherwise maintain our homes.
Today, for example, let’s consider water heaters, which you usually don’t [...]

RI DEM Decides to Enforce Commercial Recycling

I need to do my two finger clap for the fact that the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management is finally making more than 2,000 RI businesses account for their recycling efforts. Though the state has mandatory commercial recycling regulations, they’ve just now decided to enforce it.
It’s good to know they are doing their job by enforcing a [...]

Urban Renewal, Through an Environmental Lens

Why do certain neighborhoods of New York have disproportionate levels of asthma? What are the connections between ecological, economic and social degradation? Sustainable South Bronx (SSBx), an innovative non-profit group, is passionate about answering these questions and providing sustainable alternatives to years of flawed urban planning.
For Miquela Craytor, executive director of SSBx, a healthy community [...]

You put the polypropylene in the coconut and mix it all up…

I have never tried to get into a coconut. They are not delicious to me and I lack the patience and muscle required to knock one open. However we all may be driving in one someday. Some groovy guys from Baylor University wondered where something such as coconut husks could be used other than falling from trees [...]

The Problem With Convenience

Before bottled water, there was…..well, what was there?  Before we began harvesting huge amounts of toxic producing plastics to store our beverages, how did we survive?   The truth is, bottled beverages are a matter of convenience more than anything else.  And in some instances, they are simply unavoidable.  Take the airport.  As a frequent traveler, [...]