Every year we pull out the big address book and start compiling a list of Christmas/Holiday card recipients. It’s a great tradition because it allows us to reach out to friends and relatives we rarely communicate with. Unfortunately, it’s also a tradition that places a great demand on important resources like trees and petroleum.
Last year I presented myself with a challenge: Create an alternative to traditional Christmas cards that mirrors the …
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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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