Archive for the 'Recycling' Category
The Mike Nowak Show: Confidant to the Nascent Gardener, Organic Ambassador to the World
1 Comment Published by Seamus Ford April 15th, 2009 in Diet/Nutrition/Eating, Recycling, Social Responsibility, Water Ecology, landscaping.I was thrilled by how knowledgeable Mike Novak and I even got to even share about Low Carbon Home on the radio.
Turning Your Dog Into a Good Environmental Citizen
6 Comments Published by Seamus Ford December 21st, 2008 in Education, Recycling, landscaping.Our dogs and cats are our companions and we naturally want to take care of them. If you are a pet owner you probably give a lot of thought to what you feed your pet. What you probably don’t think about is what happens to the waste they generate once you dispose of it. Most people [...]
Re-thinking what you consider to be junk: re-use and re-purpose
2 Comments Published by Seamus Ford June 20th, 2008 in Commentary, Family/Children, Recycling, Social Responsibility.The world is filling up with stuff.
Modern industrial society has lost touch with the real value of what it produces. Our wasteful consumption and our disposable attitude toward so much of what we produce and use is going to hurt our children. In spite of the fact that most parents would never [...]
Refuse Or At Least Reuse Plastic Utensils
2 Comments Published by Seamus Ford May 31st, 2008 in Diet/Nutrition/Eating, Recycling, Water Ecology, Work.How many times have you been given plastic utensils when you have take out food?
How often does that plastic ware end up going into the garbage without even being used?
A plastic coffee lid is use for about an hour and then thrown away. Plastic bags are used for the trip home from the [...]
