Abby’s Blog: Kids Helping the Earth: Box Tops

My school collects Box Tops for Education. You’ve seen them, they toplots of cereal and granola bar boxes, you probably recycle them withe the rest of your cardboard but do you know they are worth ten cents for every one you send to your local school? That money get used for things like supplies for [...]

Check out the scene… the GreenScene

An interesting site that I stumbled upon this morning while looking for events and restaurants to check out this weekend – Boston GreenScene. The site has a team made up of about a half-dozen contributors ranging in passion and professions, all committed to the portal founded by editor-in-chief, Anneli Olila.
Boston GreenScene is a comprehensive resource [...]

Go a Deeper Shade of Green

I saw this post by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, written by Priya Chhaya and wanted to share it with our readers. It is an interesting perspective on the green movement.
Change your light bulbs. Recycle. Reuse. Unplug your appliances. Use a clothesline. The path to energy efficiency does start at home and its true—we [...]

Obama Hanging Tough on Fuel Economy

Good news for the Mrs. Earth and Mr. Bill-Fold. Last Tuesday, President Obama announced new rules for the auto industry, forcing them to step up their commitment to fuel efficiency in their “fleets” to an average of 25 miles per gallon by 2016. Before we get too excited, consider the average fuel efficiency between a [...]

The Box Office: Recycled Shipping Containers Become Office Space

If you want to see a shining, large-scale example of “reduce, reuse, recycle,” look no further than Providence, R.I.’s Olneyville neighborhood, which has long been home to many of the city’s artists, musicians and creative thinkers.
Olneyville is the kind of hardscrabble place that city planners and realtors are forever trying to gentrify with a healthy [...]