If you’ve ever wondered what happens to your mattress after you’re done using it, Spring Back Recycling has one answer. The new company started recycling the old foam and spring amalgamations. Spring Back Recycling, which was founded last year, charges patrons $10 per mattress to recycle the old sleep-aids. More than just an environmentally friendly [...]
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Efficiency is not the Key to Sustainability
January 22nd, 2012 
Eric Wilson Justin has written a few posts about the importance of getting outside; one titled “Encroachment” and the other “The Set Aside“. This post follows up, but takes the idea in a slightly different direction.I realize the title of this post may be heresy, but hear me out. The other day I was in a building [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Op-Ed, Sustainability 
Tags: Nature 
No Comments »Carpooling Grows Up
January 19th, 2012 Eric Wilson When I was a kid, my mom and a bunch of other parents in and around the neighborhood arranged a carpool system whereby each parent would drive a group of kids to school one morning and pick all of us up one afternoon each week. I never really thought much of it other than it [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: Collaborative Consumption, iPod/iPhone App, Pollution, United Nations No Comments »Game Day Challenge: College Football’s Other Season Long Competition
January 17th, 2012 Eric Wilson Last week the extended collegiate football season wrapped up with a one-sided victory by the University of Alabama over Louisiana State University. In the championship game matching two football powerhouses, there was little room for smaller schools to compete for the national championship against the proverbial “big boys”. Unlike the NCAA baskteball tourney – in [...]
Book Review: Elizabeth Royte’s Bottlemania
January 16th, 2012 Eric Wilson Bottlemania marks the second book that I’ve read (and now reviewed) written by Elizabeth Royte. Much like Garbage Land, Royte’s first book I read, Bottlemania has a fluid narrative. Royte does a wonderful job of weaving the story of one town’s relationship with bottled water into a larger discussion of the resource turned commodity. In [...]
FFF: Americans Ate a Ton in 2011 (Literally, 2,000 pounds)
January 13th, 2012 Eric Wilson From a recent NPR article, this week’s Five Friday Facts are about food consumption in the US last year. 1,996 pounds, or nearly one ton. This is an estimate of how much — by weight — the average American eats over the course of one year. The figure comes from economists who crunched food consumption [...]
EPA’s New Website of Top Greenhouse Gas Emitters
January 12th, 2012 Eric Wilson As a follow up to a post the other day titled “Top Polluting Power Plants in North America,” the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) unveiled a new website yesterday that is dedicated to identifying the largest emitters of greenhouse gases in the U.S., including carbon dioxide and methane. As stated on the EPA’s site, “This tool [...]
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 »Honda’s Recent Ups (and Down) in Green Cars
January 10th, 2012 Eric Wilson Honda Motor Company’s natural gas powered Civic won the 2012 Green Car of the Year at the most recent L.A. Auto Show. While this is nothing new for the car, it does help balance some of the recent negative publicity surrounding a court case brought against the automaker. Their hybrid Civic has come under fire [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Transportation Tags: Electric Vehicles, Fracking, Honda Clarity, Lifecycle, Natural Gas No Comments »Out with the New in with the Old
January 8th, 2012 Eric Wilson A few months back I had the opportunity to tour three LEED certified projects on three consecutive days. All three projects achieved LEED gold and were located in the greater Denver area. The following op-ed is a bit of a reflection on these visits and what it means to build green. They are listed in [...]
Posted in Energy Efficiency, Eric Wilson, Featured Posts, Green Building, Op-Ed, Recylcing, Site Visits Tags: Denver, EPA, LEED, Waste No Comments »
