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Trash Is a Terrible Thing to Waste

Bill Chameides | Posted 10.21.2009 | Green


Bill Chameides

Looking to lower your impact on the planet? Look no further than your trash bin. We Americans produce a lot of trash -- by some estimates about 250 million tons of the stuff per year.

It Is What It Isn't

Ned Goldreyer | Posted 07.24.2009 | Comedy


Ned Goldreyer

I've patriotically lost my job and even gone so far as to buy a book on how to find another one, but all these carefully executed half-measures have not been enough. The time for three-quarter measures has arrived.

Twitter Feeding Your World

Graham Hill | Posted 06.26.2009 | Media


Graham Hill

Many Americans throw away masses of food but health regulations make it harder for leftover food to get officially donated. Social networking can help, here's how.

Yes, We Need More Extreme Environmentalists

Marguerite Manteau-Rao | Posted 11.08.2008 | Green


Marguerite Manteau-Rao

More extreme environmentalists are needed on the right, to bring about the balance that you, I, our whole planet need

4 Easy Ways to Be a Freegan

Maura Judkis | Posted 08.06.2008 | Green


Maura Judkis

Conventional wisdom states that dumpster-diving is for the homeless. Freegans, however, are a small anticonsumerist group who won't allow anything use...

Freeganism: Do You Buy It?

Huffington Post | Verena von Pfetten | Posted 04.04.2008 | Living


Madeline Nelson finds a bag of slightly bruised apples and day-old bread left in a supermarket's Dumpster too tempting to pass up. "A lot of perfectl...