Recycling

Double Duty: Tips for Lowering Impact in the Kitchen

Kay Goldstein | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green


Kay Goldstein

What is intriguing about Double Duty for me is how to use the method to inspire some yummy innovations in food like caramelizing a butternut squash or smoking a pepper.

Billy Boyd, Aspen Resident, Finally Finds Cell Phone After Epic Search

AP | Posted 11.02.2009 | Denver


ASPEN, Colo. — A determined Colorado man found his missing cell phone at a trash dump after dialing the number and listening for the ring. Bill...

Inspirational Stories From No Impact Week: The DC Green Muslims, Volunteering In Costa Rica And Confronting "Poverty Consciousness"

Huffington Post | Matthew Palevksy | Posted 11.05.2009 | Green


Starting Sunday October 18, HuffPost hosted the inaugural No Impact Week, where people around the globe examined and reduced their ecological footprin...

"Refuse" Should Be Added To Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Refuse | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green


The problem is simply too massive to be promoting a gradual reduction in single-use disposable plastics. Every 5 minutes, 2 million plastic bottles ar...

Amazing Dissolving Plastic Packaging

Creative Review | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green


Newsstand copies of the November issue of CR come in a revolutionary new bag that simply dissolves in hot water. No waste. No landfill....

HuffPosters Getting Trashed (SLIDESHOW)

Matthew Palevsky/Zach Dorfman | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green


As part of Trash Day for No Impact Week, (learn more here and sign up) we're taking a deeper look into trash, recycling and where things go after we t...

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.

All-In-One Innovative Pizza Box: Four Plates And Leftover Box

Posted 10.21.2009 | Green


William Walsh, 42, believes that his innovative pizza box invention, known as the GreenBox will radically change the way we consume pizza. The top p...

Anti-Garbage: From Less Waste To Zero-Waste

nytimes.com | LESLIE KAUFMAN | Posted 10.20.2009 | Green


Across the nation, an antigarbage strategy known as "zero waste" is moving from the fringes to the mainstream, taking hold in school cafeterias, natio...

No Impact Week: Trash

Huffington Post | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green


As part of Trash Day for No Impact Week, (learn more here and sign up) we're taking a deeper look into trash, recycling and where it all goes after we...

Artist Tim Burke Recycles Detroit History, And Rescues Himself (PHOTOS)

Diane Tucker | Posted 10.19.2009 | Green


Diane Tucker

Detroiter Tim Burke calls himself an artist, a scavenger, and a non-practicing alcoholic. Devoted to the reuse of refuse, the 40-something sculptor us...

Air Travel Made Greener: 4 Tips

Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green


Avital Binshtock

Though air travel is unavoidable at times, there are a few things responsible travelers can do to make flights greener.

Taking on No Impact Week from Abroad: Will Living in Peru Make It Harder?

Levi Novey | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green


Levi Novey

After looking at the No Impact Week guide, I felt ashamed that living abroad had become a sort of false crutch upon which I could hang my environmental credibility.

No Impact Week: Solar Panels, Bio-Diesel, and Worms

Renée Loux | Posted 10.16.2009 | Green


Renée Loux

Several years ago, I undertook a year-long experiment to minimize my personal waste. At the time, "no impact" wasn't a common term. I just wanted to see how waste-wise efficient I could be.

Why "Recyclable" is the Greenwashing-est Word Around

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green


Recycling is great, and the people who make it happens from recycling companies to the end users of recycled materials should get points for being gre...

Eco Etiquette: Is Recycling Bad For The Environment?

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 10.14.2009 | Green


Jennifer Grayson

I have been hearing reports that recycling is bad. That the costs of shipping, mostly the carbon emissions from them, counteract any benefit from recy...

How David de Rothschild Made His Plastic-Bottle Boat (VIDEO)

news.nationalgeographic.com | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green


October 7 -- Plastiki, a 60-foot-long (18.3-meter-long) catamaran made of more than 12,000 plastic bottles, will soon ply the Pacific Ocean to increas...

No More Plastic Water Bottles

Adele Israel | Posted 10.06.2009 | Denver


Adele Israel

I attempted to estimate the number of plastic bottles of water sold in Grand Junction in one week. But discount giants and other corporations hold on to sales figures tighter than oil companies hang on to fracking formulas.

It Isn't Easy Being Green: Getting Ready for No Impact Week

Donna Joseph | Posted 10.08.2009 | Green


Donna Joseph

Is it too late for me to take a second look at this planet that has nourished me and determine some ways in which I can give back?

New Yorkers Recycling Less Than Half The Time; Some Neighborhoods Worse

nydailynews.com | By William Sherman | Posted 10.04.2009 | New York


Reduce, reuse, recycle - well, not so much. New Yorkers are still tossing out more than half the stuff they should be recycling, managing to go gre...

So. Cal. Chronicles - Redemption For $28.69

Jane Minogue | Posted 10.02.2009 | Living


Jane Minogue

It was the last day of my husband's staycation (nope, we didn't go anywhere), and we realized that one of the errands we overlooked (party animals that we are) was taking the recycling to a center.

7 Fun, Recycled Halloween Costumes

thedailygreen.com | Posted 10.01.2009 | Green


Instead of filling up landfills with once-used plastics and fabrics, get creative, and come up with your own unique look with reused and recycled mate...

Towards a Spectrum of Green

Courtney Reum | Posted 09.30.2009 | Green


Courtney Reum

The question isn't black/white or cut/dry, so I think it should actually be rephrased more along the lines of, "Where do you fall in the spectrum of trying to be more 'green'?"

Recycling Bike Parts: 8 Unique Metal Furniture Designs

Dornob | Posted 09.30.2009 | Green


Contemporary yes, modern sure, sustainable indeed, but above all these furniture designs are just plain cool....

The Battle Over Plush Toilet Paper

washingtonpost.com | David A. Fahrenthold | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green


Plush U.S. toilet paper is usually made by chopping down and grinding up trees that were decades or even a century old. They want Americans, like Euro...