Monthly Archives: April 2009

The World’s Largest Garbage Dump

When will we learn that throwing “away” garbage is just a figure of speech? The trash, though out of sight temporarily, is really just put into or piled onto earth or ocean somewhere on our planet, where the vast majority of it will take decades, if not centuries to biodegrade. In the meantime our trash lingers, [...]

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Earth day beach finds…

I went for a long beach walk today and took a few photos of the journey. Above is a representative sample of some of the stuff that I found along the way…the amount of cigarette butts is still astounding. My dog Karma takes a sniff of some seaweed. 

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Happy Earth Day

What a beautiful day to celebrate. And what better way to celebrate than with food!   NPR had a great article up today all about food, entitled:  Back To Basics: Good For You, Good For The Earth With the economy in such shambles, the political climate somehow always in a state of despair, and the environment [...]

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Paving Streets with Surfboards!

Until just now, I’d never heard a sustainable solution for old, beaten up boards. Apparently, organizations like ReSurf (check out Resurf.org) and Green Foam have been testing the viability of transforming recycled surfboards into asphalt or concrete to pave our roadways.     ”According to Environmental News Network, of the 750,000 surfboards produced annually, many are made [...]

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