Green News Weekly – NBC Green Week, Recycling Can Create Jobs and American Idol Plastic PSA Controversy
Welcome back for another edition of green news weekly featuring a few interesting stories from around the globe impacting the environment. The highlights include: NBC Green Week is on the air; higher American recycling rates will equal more local jobs; and American Idol season 10 …
Composting Tips I’ve Learned
All of us greenies have made a promise to only eating local organic produce when possible and perhaps even growing your own products to reduce our carbon footprint. To take that promise to the next level we must compost all the scraps from that delicious …
Compost never tasted this good – a surprising Valentines Day cookie
No, you are not actually eating compost, but rather this is an eco-friendly clean the pantry out delicious cookie. I’m referring to Momofuku Milk Bar’s famous Compost Cookies that were featured on Live with Regis and Kelly during their ‘Inside the Chef’s Kitchen Chocolate Challenge’ …
10 Disturbing Facts On How Much We Waste
I’m reminded of just how wasteful we are as I’m at a local mall noticing what’s in the full garbage bin. Lots of plastic bottles, aluminum cans, cardboard – all recyclable, but carelessly tossed and headed to the landfill. People discard things in the garbage …
The Green Gazette (issue 3) Wind farms, plastic bags and reinventing the wheel
Getting close to the end of another week and it’s time for the latest Green Gazette where Planet Forward brings together a selection of interesting, inspiring or simply odd eco-friendly ideas. As I mentioned before I think all efforts are worthy in our search for …
An Ecofriendly Solution To An End-Of-Season Problem
We have reached that point in the summer when the hanging flower baskets have died or are no longer blooming. So what is an ecofriendly solution to throwing out the plastic hanger/basket? Replant!! The genius of this is that at this late date the nurseries …
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