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Life Cycle: Styrofoam: Mark of the Plastic Beast

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Devil, Non-Biodegradable, Green, Earth, Landfill, Chinese Takeout, Pollution, Green Living, 6, Plastics, Recycling, Containers, Recycle, Styrofoam, Waste, Environment, Trash, Food, Eating, Sarah Smarsh, 666, Cups, Biodegradable, Brangelina, Simran Sethi, Green News

Life Cycle is a series of posts that looks at the life and death of everyday things. Your Styrofoam lunch container of Mooshu pork is labeled with...

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Bottled Sugar Water Is Worse Than Bottled Water

EcoGeek | Hank Green | Posted 10.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Water, Bottled Sugar Water, Tap Water, Soda, Waste, Plastic, Green Living, Reducing Waste, Bottled Water, Green News

I'm not sure why we need two dozen campaigns to fight against buying what already comes out of our faucets for free, but I have this nagging feeling t...

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Life Cycle: Greening the Other White Meat

Simran Sethi | Posted 10.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Green Living Advice, Livestock, Hog, Swine, Green, Earth, Manure, Chinese Takeout, Pollution, Meat Packing Plants, Pig Farm, Green Living Tips, Pig, Green Living, Environment, Waste, Food, Sarah Smarsh, Eating, Pork, Bacteria, Simran Sethi, Mooshu, Green News

Large, corporate pig farms are home to deep vats of untold tons of pig crap, called "lagoons," which regularly overflow or seep past inadequate lining into the earth.

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It's Time For Deposits. On Everything.

Lloyd Alter | Posted 09.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Waste, Recycling, Environment, Garbage, Green News

Recycling on the taxpayers nickel as we do it now not the answer. It is time for producer responsibility and zero waste.

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Wasted Fish: British Trawler Dumps 80% Of Catch To Take Advantage Of Quotas (VIDEO)

Guardian | Damian Carrington | Posted 09.13.2008 | Green

Read More: British Fishermen, EU Fishing Quotas, EU Fisheries, Food Politics, Waste, Food, Fishing, Norwegian Coastguard, Politics of Food, Green News

If a picture is worth a thousand words, what's a video worth? A lot more in the case of the film we published today, showing a British trawler dumping...

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9 Ways to Cut Down on Food Waste

Maura Judkis | Posted 09.08.2008 | Green

Read More: How to Save Money, Recipes, Compost, Refrigerators, Grocery Stores, Waste, Food, Green Living, Grocery Lists, Green News

Nearly half of all food in America goes to waste. Setting aside for a minute the "finish your supper, there are starving children in China" implications of this, think of your grocery bill.

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Life Cycle: Life After Desk

Simran Sethi | Posted 08.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Chairs, Landfills, Volatile Organic Compounds, Desk, Reduce, Glues, Environmental, Office Furniture, Green Office, Recycle, Wooden, Varnishes, Environment, Waste, Reuse, Sarah Smarsh, Deforestation, Simran Sethi, Vocs, Green News

Often, the greenest consumer route is not buying new products made with Earth-friendly methods but rather scoring used products made with traditional, possibly heinous methods. Reduce, reuse, then recycle.

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Over $4 Billion Wasted In Iraq Reconstruction, Government Inspector Estimates

AP | BRIAN MURPHY and PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 08.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: Parsons of Pasadena, Corruption, Iraq Corruption, Waste, Iraq Contractors, Iraq, Stuart Bowen, Politics News

BAGHDAD — In the flatlands north of Baghdad sits a prison with no prisoners. It holds something else: a chronicle of U.S. government waste, misg...

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A New Ethics of Consumption

Andy Posner | Posted 08.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Waste, Consumerism, Consumer Waste, Consumption, Green News

Imagine a world in which landfills no longer exist, corporations make money while replenishing, cleansing and protecting natural resources, and consumers express their ethics with every purchase.

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Does Recycling Really Do Any Good?

Collin Dunn | Posted 07.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Waste, Recycling, Trash, Recycle, Green News

The words "recycled" and "recyclable" often conjure up similar notions of relative greenness; the general idea is that, as long as you aren't pitching...

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Styrofoam Statue Of Liberty Draws Outrage From Environmentalists

Earthfirst | Posted 07.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Statue of Liberty, Waste, Styrofoam, Pollution, Sierra Club, Green News

Perhaps it's a fitting tribute to a country that wore the 'Biggest Polluter' crown for so long: a 130-foot, 50,000-lb replica of the Statue of Liberty...

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Do Big Homes Mean Bigger Happiness?

Graham Hill | Posted 07.25.2008 | Green

Read More: Census Bureau, Housing Market, Statistics, Mansions, Waste, Architecture, Environment, Living, Green Living, Mcmansions, Green Homes, Housing Crisis, Housing Slump, Carbon Footprint, Green News

The funny thing is, while homes get bigger, and this McMansion trend swallows up neighborhoods and landmarks, families are actually getting smaller.

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Why I Don't Flush

Graham Hill | Posted 07.23.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Waste, Bathroom, Water Conservation, Pollution, Toilet, Water, Green News

There are now great composting and low-flow toilets out there, but just by flushing a little less often (number 1 only please!), the amount of water you can save is huge.

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Life Cycle: All That's Fit to Print

Simran Sethi | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Epa, Recycling, Environmental, Eucalyptus, Online, Green, Environment, Waste, Newspaper, E-News, Recycled, Reading, Paper, Trees, Ink, Simran Sethi, Sarah Smarsh, Green News

OK, it's just newsprint. But we journalists tend to get excited about it. More than 50 million newspapers hit stands and porches every morning in this country (double that in China). A tree falls. Many trees, really--200 million per year, just for newspapers.

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Three Green Decisions With Little or No Downside

Graham Hill | Posted 07.18.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Environmental Protection Agency, Waste, Green, Usgbc, Environmentalism, Homeowners, Green Living, Global Warming, Green Furniture, Green News

Who was the guy that said living eco means sacrifice? It's not about living in a cave and shaking your head at the 'modern day luxuries,' folks. Getti...

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Lo-Tech Hi-Tech: The Simple Solutions All Around Us

Graham Hill | Posted 07.16.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Waste, Design, Bicycling, Bike, Green News

There are a lot of great low tech things around us that could help us reduce our impact. Take the bike, the sweater, and the awning, for example. Here are three pieces of "old" technology that are invisible to most of us despite their power.

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Global Warming: How We Got Here and Why We Shouldn't Beat Ourselves Up About It

Graham Hill | Posted 07.11.2008 | Green

Read More: Environment, Waste, Environmentalism, Climate Change, Global Warming, Green News

Before we can change, we need to understand where we went wrong. We need to see through our grandparents' lens first in order to toss it for the better, greener version.

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Being Green is Not Easy... When I Forget

Graham Hill | Posted 07.09.2008 | Green

Read More: Reusable Bag, Forgetfulness, Reusable Grocery Bags, Umbrella, Bags, Environment, Waste, Plastic Bags, Green News

We live in a disposable culture, one that is built on convenience. You don't have to bring your own bag, because the bag is there. But it's these disposable items that are filling our landfills

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Friday Talking Points [37] -- Welcome, New Readers

Chris Weigant | Posted 07.05.2008 | Politics

Read More: GI Bill, Speech, Friday Talking Points, Fisa, Chris Dodd, Immunity, Campaign, Sewage Plant, Presidential Memorial Commission, Republican, Telecom, Bush, Talking Points, 2008, John Kerry, Midotw, Waste, Most Disappointing Democrat of the Week, Spin, 2008 Campaign, Most Impressive Democrat of the Week, Grover Norquist, San Francisco, Tan, Sewage, John McCain, Beating His Wife, Amnesty, Democrat, 2008 Elections, 08, 2008 Election, Barack Obama, Election, 08 Election, Elections, 08 Campaign, Mddotw, 2008 Presidential Race, Harry Reid, Democratic Underground, Flip Flop, Milquetoast, Du, Politics News

McCain flip-flops on torture, tax cuts, the religious right, Roe v. Wade, lobbyists, gay marriage, creationism, Iraq, talking to enemies, and just about any other subject you care to name.

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Europeans Happier than Americans yet Half the Footprint

Graham Hill | Posted 07.02.2008 | Green

Read More: Waste, Environmental Footprint, Carbon Emissions, Carbon Footprint, Happiness, Green News

It seems that Europeans can live with smaller homes, less space, fewer and smaller cars, and less waste, yet still face the world grinning.

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Corn Utensils Useless Without Major Composting Efforts

Los Angeles Times | Jenn Garbee | Posted 06.26.2008 | Green

Read More: Organic Food, Corn, Bioplastics, Waste, Biotech, Corn Utensils, Bio Plastic Products, Green News

Now that you feel environmentally conscientious for having used a corn fork -- those forks made with corn starch that lately are the darlings of the t...

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