Articles tagged “Recycling”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Brazil: Model Recycling Nation By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Aug 4 2010 Brazil could reach a 100% recycling rate for aluminum cans, and everyone involved in the process sees the benefits. What is the U.S. doing wrong? + READ MORE

Got Some Old T-Shirts? Then You Have New T-Shirts, Too. By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 27 2010 Artist (and natural deodorant maker) Stephen Dickens talks about his design philosophy and shares his best tips for how to upcycle old t-shirts into awesome new ones. + READ MORE

Couple Pays For Wedding With 400,000 Recycled Cans By Sara Novak IN Home & Garden Jul 21 2010 They're known as the "wedding can couple" and with good reason, they are paying for their July 31 wedding solely with the $3,800 in proceeds they earned from recycling 400,000 cans. + READ MORE

3 Ideas for Eco-Friendly Pool Floats By Virginia Sole-Smith IN Travel & Outdoors Jul 15 2010 No need to spring for a PVC tube or plastic raft. You've probably got plenty of water-worthy materials knocking around your house. + READ MORE

Freecycle@Work Brings the Benefits of Freecycle to Your Office By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect Jul 15 2010 A Freecycle-Intuit partnership has created an online application to help people establish Freecycle programs at their companies. + READ MORE

Fast Forward Episode: Venus Williams By Team Planet Green IN Fast Forward Jul 7 2010 ‘Green your game!’ proclaims tennis superstar Venus Williams. In a groundbreaking environmental campaign by the United States Tennis Association (USTA), Williams is requesting the help of all her fans to build a sustainable future for our planet. In collaboration with... + READ MORE

Fast Forward Episode: Maya Lin By Team Planet Green IN Fast Forward Jul 7 2010 Maya Lin is one of the most celebrated artists of her generation. Her acclaimed series of memorials, which include the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington DC, have been praised as masterpieces of contemporary art. Growing up in the Sixties and... + READ MORE

How to Go Green: Barbeques By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Jul 2 2010 Sixty million Americans put fire to food during the summer, but typical grilling and barbeques leave no small footprint behind; our barbeque celebrations cause 225,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide to be released into the atmosphere. Follow our guide for How to Go Green: Barbeques for tips 'n tricks to greener grilling. + READ MORE

First This, Now That: 6 Awesome Recycle or Reuse Projects By Sara Novak IN Home & Garden Jun 30 2010 While we're all well aware of the importance of avoiding the landfill, you may be surprised and downright shocked to see how far we've come. In other words, whenever you're considering throwing something away, think twice about what it could be used for in its next life. + READ MORE

A True Generational Shift: Meet Kristen Brown Inventor of MY ECO Shopping Bag System By Sara Novak IN Home & Garden Jun 14 2010 Kristen Brown knew at a young age the problems associated with plastic grocery bags. In fact, she spent her defining years training supermarket baggers to use the plastic bag and it was her father Gordon Dancy who introduced the 40 lbs plastic bag to grocery stores in 1977. Even though according to Brown, he had the best of intentions at the time, today plastic bags have become a symbol of a consumerist society. + READ MORE

How to Go Green: Recycling By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jun 1 2010 Recycling got its start almost four decades ago, a U.S. paper company wanted a symbol to communicate its products' recycled content to customers. The design competition they held was won by Gary Anderson, a young graphic designer from the University of Southern California. His entry, based on the Mobius strip (a shape with only one side and no end) is now universally recognized as the symbol for recycling. + READ MORE

Vermont Football Team Goes Green to Raise Money By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect May 27 2010 The football team at Vermont's Mount Mansfield Union High School is doing some green good while raising some cash. + READ MORE

Deposit on Cigarette Butts? Recycling Program Proposed for New York By Rachel Cernansky IN Work & Connect May 26 2010 If a recently-proposed bill passes, New York will soon have a cigarette butt recycling program that would collect a one-cent deposit on every cigarette. + READ MORE

Annabelle Wants YOUR Ideas! By Team Planet Green IN Wasted May 3 2010 With the new season of WA$TED! underway, I'm excited to tell you that I could definitely feel a change in attitudes with the households and businesses I worked with. Almost everyone I met (with some notable exceptions which you'll have... + READ MORE

Accessibility, Affordability and Actionability By Team Planet Green IN Wasted May 3 2010 On Earth Day this year I was invited to be the Emcee of Los Angeles Earth Day Celebration and got to right in the middle of something really exciting. The City of Los Angeles was announcing a partnership with Recycle... + READ MORE

25 Wasteful Things You Can Live Without By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Apr 20 2010 Take stock of the disposable, packaged, and single-use products that you use, and then look for reusable alternatives. Not sure where to start? Here are more than two dozen items that many people use, but can easily live without. + READ MORE

Old Electronics? New Yorkers, E-Waste Recycling Dates Coming Up By Rachel Cernansky IN Tech & Transport Apr 12 2010 Green your spring cleaning with the help of these e-waste recycling events. + READ MORE

30 Days Episode: Off The Grid By Team Planet Green IN 30 Days Mar 24 2010 Two 30-year-old professionals who are friends and typical Americans?i.e., ravenous consumers of fossil fuels such as gas and electricity?go ?back to the future? and learn to live without the natural resources that will be depleted from our earth in the... + READ MORE

A Revolt In The Kitchen: Recycled Appliances To The Rescue By Ronnie Citron-Fink IN Home & Garden Mar 22 2010 The abrupt death of the kitchen stove led me on a path to find a sustainable new one. + READ MORE

Make a Coat Rack from Kitchen Cabinet Facing and Hardware By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Home & Garden Mar 18 2010 Reinvent a tired faux drawer facing and a few knobs as a one-of-a-kind coat rack, perfect for an informal entry or your kitchen. + READ MORE