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Zero Waste Grocery Store

06.26.11 // The Environment // (0)

So you bring bags to the store, reuse your plastic, compost so you don’t use garbage bags, and recycle the trash that the city bin will take. Guess what? It ain’t working. Even if Every single family in the country spent the time sorting their garbage, we’d still be throwing millions of tons of waste [...]

Average Water Usage? What’s Yours?

03.19.10 // The Environment // (7)

Paying bills is always a chore. If I manage to get a check off before a bill is late, that’s a big success. I hate paying bills to faceless corporations that espouse values I don’t support. However, my water bill actually makes me happy to pay because I believe everyone should pay for their impact [...]

Saving our Oceans

07.27.09 // The Environment // (0)

I could spend hours drafting a post explaining why eating plants is better for the environment than eating animals. I could follow John Robbin’s example and quote numbers that prove the inefficiency in producing cattle and fish (22 times less efficient). I could go on and on about how industrial meat production is creating dead [...]