Road Trip: Greener Maryland
I recently traveled to Maryland, and was hit by "green" every time I turned around. Recycling bins all over the airport. Image that. (Too high tech for Miami?) A "green" message in the hotel bathroom. One of these, help us reduce water, energy, and detergent usage by reusing your towels. The sad news? They didn’t deliver. New towels placed in the room in the evening. How...
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 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...
Read MoreWeek of Trash, Day 3 Results
Not much, right? 2 aluminum Coke cans, a little bit of product packaging, the outside piece of "throwaway paper" from the Netflix envelopes, a banana peel, squash skin, and a napkin or two. We even had a guest arrive, who is staying with us. Not bad, except for the fact that we ate out last night, and I flew solo at lunch and just snacked. (We’re often 2 people for lunch, 2 for...
Read MoreWeek of Trash, Day 2 Results
Day 2 in the Week of Trash was a rather disappointing one, because I knew it would bring me embarrassment today. (Please note that waste in trash can includes Day 1 waste, all other waste is Day 2 only,) Mr. Greener took a few minutes yesterday to clean out some old magazines and papers. The ones that truly wound up getting the axed are pictured above. Others I sorted out: papers with a blank...
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