This coming Saturday, September 6, New York City’s Lower East Side Ecology Center (LESEC) is having its annual fund-raising bash, and I have the honor of giving a talk (I’ll be brief, promise). This excellent party with a local-food dinner, music and activities for kids and adults will be at the East River Park amphitheater […]
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Reusable containers and the two-way customer relationship
The way I see it, reusable containers have the tremendous potential for helping companies develop a two-way relationship with customers. Like Ronnybrook Farm, where I get milk. I buy from them because they’re local and because they use returnable bottles. A quart of milk from them is $3.25 including a $1 deposit. You go back […]
LV GRN: Our life in the trash
Trash tends to be a bit of the underdog of environmental concern these days. Perhaps that is because we think of the issues of trash to be limited to water and air quality problems arising from toxins leaking from landfills and dioxins and other poisons pumped into the air by incinerators (both of which are […]
The world’s simplest, best, most effective environmental living tip
I was talking to a friend who said that the problem for the general public with environmental living is that it is so complicated. How do you know what stores to go to? How do you know what products are okay for the environment? How do cut through the green spin machine that is roaring […]
The human costs of consumption–a cool, new cartoon
Well, it’s not really a cartoon, but waste activist Annie Leonard‘s funny, hard-hitting and informative new animated short The Story of Stuff, about the effects of rampant consumption both on human health and the planet, does make you wonder if we’ve all gone Loony Tunes. Today’s No Impact Man homework is to watch the film […]
An organization that wastes not, global warms not (and saves money, too)
If every car in the United States idled 5 minutes less a day we’d save 13 million tons of CO2. If “smart” power outlets stopped delivering current to electronics sucking up juice in standby mode, we’d save 10% of household electricity use. Okay, maybe reducing waste won’t solve the climate crisis, but it makes a […]