The Fall has definitely arrived. This means apple cider, pumpkin pie, acorn squash, cooler weather and, of course, thousands of falling leaves.
Leaves may be beautiful when they’re turning bright orange, yellow and red, but the beauty wears off when they’re covering your lawn. Is there a way to reuse these leaves rather than bundle them up and send them to the dump? Yes.
According to Sustainityourself.blogspot.com, leaves can have a second life …
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Most of our everyday activities create trash. From morning coffee in a paper cup, to TV dinner box for those of us too tired to cook, hardly even noticing, we fill up trash can after trashcan with waste that accumulates in our landfills, or even worse ends up in our streets, fields and oceans.
A trash audit could be an eye-opener for most of us, and is …
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Washington is inundated with conventions and meetings throughout the year. Sometimes it seems like every business, organization and issue stops in our city to release throngs of wandering visitors equipped with name tags and lanyards.
With all these conventions comes the inevitable convention eco-impact. Mountains of signs, displays, and pamphlets are needed to update convention-goers on the latest gizmo that will revolutionize their industry.
This is an environmental nightmare. Is there any way …
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The day has FINALLY arrived! Analog broadcast signals have officially been switched to digital signals. We can all finally be relieved of the endless commercials warning us of impending television doom.
If you decided to buy a new TV with an internal digital receiver rather than purchase a converter box, make sure you dispose of your old TV properly. One of the worst side-effects of this signal transition is the massive number …
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The National Mall is meant to be “America’s Front Yard.” But while most Americans have embraced recycling, our official front yard has been stuck in the pre-recycling era. Finally, that’s about to change.
This summer, the National Park Service and Coca-Cola are working together to study how much of the garbage on the National Mall can be collected and recycled. By October, NPS will begin distributing recycling bins in locations where they’ll …
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