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- What Will Happen If We Don't Recycle? I wrote this report on recycling and air and water pollution many years ago. I made it into a lens (web page) to compare what people thought about recycling trash and what would happen in the future with and air and water pollution back then...
- Biodegradable Trash Bags Traditional trash bags are a huge waste. Not only do they take hundreds of year to decompose, but they never truly decompose. Trash bags and other plastics merely break down further into tiny toxic bits, polluting waterways, the soil, wildlife, and d...
- Go Green, Reusable Shopping Bags Save Energy, Set your thermostat a few degrees lower in the winter and a few degrees higher in the summer. Install compact fluorescent light bulbs when your older incandescent bulbs burn out. Wash clothes in cold water, 85% of energy used while washi...
- Plasma Gasification: The End of Landfills? Plasma gasification takes garbage of nearly any type and turns it into an environmental boon for any town with a landfill. The complicated machines that perform this green service are called plasma converters. Explore this lens to learn more about t...
- Opt-Out! Freedom From Junk Mail and Phone Calls Fact: More than 100 million trees are destroyed each year to produce junk mail. 42% of timber harvested nationwide becomes pulpwood for paper. Fact: The energy used to produce and dispose of junk mail exceeds 2.8 million cars. Fact: About 28 billion...
- Recycle Your Cell Phone -How to Make Money Recycling Cell Phones How to Make Money For Your Old Cell Phone! Did you know that cell phones contain toxic materials such as arsenic, lead and zinc? According to a new study by environmental research group Inform, people in the US will soon be getting rid of about...
- How to Recycle With Freecycle "The Freecycle Network is made up of 4,342 groups with 4,921,000 members across the globe. It's a grassroots effort and an entirely nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns. It's all a...
- Green Family Values More eco-friendly enthusiasts are coming out of the woodwork every year. The effects of global warming on our environment are increasing in its awareness and more people want to help make the earth a livable place for future generations to come. Gree...
- Recycle with Freecycle Freecycle is an online community where eco-friendly citizens recycle their unwanted items by giving them away to others - FREE. Yes, you read that right, for free. We all have junk in our homes, regardless of whether we want to accept it or not. Laun...
- Food Waste Mountains, Biofuels and the energy crunch It appears that at the present time, we are facing a shortage in energy and a rise in costs, we are facing a big question on how and where the energy is sourced to reduce its environmental impact. We are facing a similar question on food shortages, i...
- The Madaket Mall A glimpse at a unique shopping opportunity on the island of Nantucket. Hidden in plain sight at the Nantucket Landfill is a place where goods of all values change hands, free of charge.
- Help your Garden without hurting your Kids - compost your way to greatness Anyone with a garden wants it to grow, whether for decorative flowers or food for the household. Many people want their lawns to be lush and invite praise. Some of these people buy fertilizers that contain chemicals that can be harmful to kids - of t...
- Go Green and Recycle We've all heard the phrase "reduce, reuse, recycle," but not enough of us are actually following it. Recycling is not only good for the environment and planet Earth's well-being, it is also good for your wallet. The economic benefits of recycling on...
- The Greening Trend: Good EarthKeeping Skills "The Leave No Trace movement started in the 1970's and was a success in less than ten years. This is good earth-keeping. Leave No Trace is summarized: "Take only photos, leave only foot prints." We must make this happen at public, outdoor events. Lik...
