Recommended: Four Steps to Less Wasteful Communities

Feb 06, 2013 No Comments by

If you live in a neighborhood that happens to provide a “single stream” or “single-sort” recycling program, you’ve no doubt questioned its effectiveness.  What paramount of modern technology could possibly sort and separate paper, plastic, metal, and glass?  Frank Korten, upon the transition of his town from source separation to single stream, had the same […]

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OPINION: How Do Your Choices Impact America’s Food Culture?

Dec 28, 2012 No Comments by

During a time of year that is culturally characterized by excessive food-centered festivities, (Nation of Change, “What’s for Dinner?”) Jim Hightower asks us to consider, not only what we are consuming and where it comes from, but ways in which we can cultivate sustainable alternatives to the dominant agri-business framework that determines how most of […]

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