At nearly 14 percent, food waste in the U.S. now represents the single largest component in the municipal solid waste stream. In 2010, this amounted to 34 million tons of food, less than 3 percent of which was recovered or recycled. This staggering amount of food waste is driven not only by individual households, but [...]
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HMSHost Diverts Food Waste at Tampa International Airport
February 8th, 2012 
Chris DeArmond 
Posted in Behavior, Business, Conservation, Green Economy, Local Energy/Food, News, Recylcing, Sustainability 
Tags: Biomass, Chris DeArmond, Composting, Environment, Food 
No Comments »Today’s Moment of Zen
January 31st, 2012 Justin Manger No, not that moment of zen. This one is closer to the real meaning inherent in that phrase, which has to do with the notion that wisdom (along with compassion) is expressed in the everyday through yourself, people, and nature, if you can reach a certain state of perception. I’m not a practioner let alone [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Conservation, Japan, Justin Manger, Op-Ed, Sustainability Tags: Conservation, Environment, Nature 1 Comment »“eBay for Rentals” Rentstuff Goes Nationwide
January 30th, 2012 Justin Manger Take a quick look in your closet. Or your attic. Or your garage. If you’re like most Americans, you’ve got tons of “stuff,” a lot of which you use rarely, if at all. It seems like someone, somewhere may be looking for something that you have. It sounds like there may be a trade waiting to [...]
Posted in Business, Conservation, Green Economy, Justin Manger, News, Recylcing Tags: Collaborative Consumption No Comments »Where the Trees Are: New Biomass Map Shows Forest Cover Across the U.S.
January 18th, 2012 Justin Manger Calling their work “possibly the highest resolution and most detailed view of forest structure and carbon storage ever assembled for any country,” the NASA Earth Observatory has released a map that includes measurements of about five million trees. With a scale of 30 meters, 4 computer pixels represents an acre of land. As the Earth Observatory states, The [...]
Posted in Conservation, Graphics, Justin Manger, News, Sustainability Tags: Biomass, Carbon Dioxide, Conservation, Environment 1 Comment »My Issue with Keurig Coffee Cups
January 15th, 2012 Megan Stilley The new rage is K-cups, also known as Keurig individual cups of coffee. Not only do these individual coffee cups have individual packaging that is not recyclable, it also has its own coffee maker that you have to purchase in order to use the K-cups. The idea of these coffee cups bothers me, deep down to [...]
Posted in Behavior, Business, Conservation, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Recylcing, Sustainability Tags: Environment, Megan Stilley, Waste 6 Comments »Not Your Average Bus Trip: How “Green” is that Green Bus? Part 5 (Final)
January 14th, 2012 Heather Perry This is the final installment of the green bus series. Read all five parts here. Standing as one of the most memorable and defining experiences of my life, the adventures of our green bus brought us back to Tahoe, right where we had started. From Hannibal, Missouri we continued to make a giant loop around [...]
Wild and Scenic Film Festival – January 13-15
January 11th, 2012 Eric Wilson As mentioned in this month’s calendar post, the Wild and Scenic Film Festival takes place this week. Starting this Friday (the 13th) and running through the end of the weekend, the festival is put on by the South Yuba River Citizens League (SYRCL) in Nevada City, California. This year represents the 10th Annual Wild & [...]
Posted in Conservation, Eric Wilson Tags: Calendar, California, Climate Change, Environment, Film Series, Nature, Water No Comments »Seattle Joins Washington DC in Banning Plastic Bags
January 4th, 2012 Eric Wilson Effective in July 2012, plastic bags will be banned in Seattle. This marks the latest in a series of plastic bag bans. Last year California attempted to pass a statewide ban, but to no avail. However, Washington DC has had a ban in place for a few years now. For a list of the pros [...]
Posted in Conservation, Eric Wilson, News Tags: California, Landfill, Plastic, Washington DC No Comments »
