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Recycled houses

December 6th, 2011

Susan

Janet on the steps to her thrice-moved home outside Port Townsend

Recycling’s Full Potential

Clear glass goes in one container, colored another.

Papers in this one and plastics in yet one more.

You take your old clothes to the thrift or consignment store. Your used car oil and dead batteries go to the hazardous waste place for recycling. You consider yourself conscientious when taking care of the environment.

But what do you do when you have a whole house that needs to be recycled? It won’t fit in the bin and it is hard to put in the consignment store. And besides, how on earth would you get it there?

The first thought in the minds of most people is “demolish it.”

But on second thought, you know that’s wasteful and probably going to cost you a lot.

Weird and Wonderful Ways of Recycling

November 27th, 2011

Susan

Scrap House was located on Civic Center Plaza, at the corner of Grove and Polk Streets, immediately in front of San Francisco City Hall. Image courtesy Cesar Rubio Photography.

This ran on ecology.com Nov 14, 2011

Some recycled goods or projects are just plain weird! While others are simply wonderful. As They say, one man’s trash is another man’s treasure.

All recycling is good, don’t get me wrong! Whatever we can do to promote keeping junk and garbage out of our overloaded landfills is worth it.

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Giving Thanks in 2011

November 26th, 2011

Susan

Despite the doom and gloom promoted by traditional media, there is a lot to give thanks for in the Ecology world. The Ecology Global Network takes a look at some of the good stuff that has happened in 2011.

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World Toilet Day

November 26th, 2011

Susan

world-toilet-day Toilets and the services they provide have long been a taboo subject. But since the inception of World Toilet Day by the World Toilet Organization (WTO) on November 19, 2001, the dark secrecy surrounding these taken-for-granted fixtures has been flushed away by a growing movement around the world. The aim of the organization is to focus attention on the lack of toilets and sanitary facilities in underdeveloped nations.

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Mama Trees

September 26th, 2011

Susan

Wangari Mathaai

An article about Mama Trees, Dr. Wangari Muta Maathai, the first African woman, and the first environmentalist, to win the Nobel Peace Prize. She recently passed away.