Poll Results: Recycle from Home
For our first poll, we asked you: Do you have the ability to recycle from your home? Of our small sample, 71% can and do recycle, while 29% can’t and want to. These results were surprising and encouraging to me, a person without the ability to recycle from home. Any thoughts or comments from our readers? If you answered yes or no, tell us if you live in a condo or house. Take our new poll:...
Read MoreFrom Blue to Green: The Military & the Environment
Post contributed by Don Bosch of the Evangelical Ecologist. Some folks that drop by the Evangelical Ecologist are surprised to find out I’m a Navy environmental scientist. "Didn’t know the military even had environmentalists!" is an email I get a lot. I mention this as a disclaimer ahead of the Q&A session that follows below.* But secondly, I understand where...
Read MoreDonation & Disposal Guide Update
Go to greenerMIAMI’s complete A-Z Donation & Disposal Guide. Our A to Z guide is growing, and we owe it all to our readers. Since starting this guide, we’ve received lots of helpful suggestions for donations. Reader Anne told us about Miami Waste Paper, an industrial style place that doesn’t mind if individuals drop off their cardboard or newspaper. In fact, they pay up to...
Read MoreVideo: Recycle or Die
Very strange, but it has a few interesting facts in it. Recycle or Die, a comedy. ...
Read MoreA-Z Disposal & Donation Guide
A – Z Disposal & Donation Guide for Miami, Miami-Dade County, and South Florida This guide is meant to help residents learn how to dispose of items properly, as well as provide ideas on where to donate items that may still have further use for another individual. Updates to this list will be continuous. For additions, deletions, and corrections, please contact:...
Read MoreWeek of Trash – Final Results
Seven days of trash. Two adults. One guest, three days. Another guest, 2 days. Trash in the freezer, trash on the balcony, trash everywhere! I saved it all up for one week, and that’s what it looks like. (First photo: how it originally "came out of the baskets". Second photo: bags combined) So, what have I learned? 1. No more fresh produce from Costco. As much as I think that...
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