From the “meant to write that up a long time ago and never got to it” files comes a post about recycling in Charleston, S.C. Only in the last couple years have parts of South Carolina – such as where my sister used to live on James Island – started recycling programs in their neighborhoods [...]
Archive for the ‘Recylcing’ Category
Recycling Takes All Forms: Oyster Shells in Charleston
August 12th, 2011 
Justin Manger 
Posted in Agriculture, Behavior, Education, Justin Manger, Oceans, Policy, Recylcing, Sustainability 
Tags: Environment, Food, Water 
No Comments »Magic Hat Brewery Tips Its Brim to Energy Conservation with Biogas
July 26th, 2011 Justin Manger In a bid to use the tons of grain waste produced during the brewing process that would normally go to waste, Magic Hat is going green. 21 tons of grain waste are produced per day at its South Burlington, VT factory. Instead of simply disposing of this “waste,” Purpose Energy is helping Magic Hat install a 492,000 [...]
Book Review: Elizabeth Royte’s Garbage Land
July 18th, 2011 Eric Wilson While writing a post on biochar, I came across a book I read a few years back. After having written a review of Animal, Vegetable, Miracle two years post-reading, I figured I’d write a review of Elizabeth Royte’s Garbage Land: On the Secret Trail of Trash as well. Despite the fact that I read it [...]
Posted in Behavior, Eric Wilson, Recylcing Tags: Barbara Kingsolver, Book Review, Composting, Cradle to Cradle, Elizabeth Royte, EPA, New York City, Waste, Zero Waste No Comments »Modern Green Living: City Living at its Best
July 13th, 2011 Guest Author In the classic sitcom, Green Acres, actors Eva Gabor and Eddie Albert bicker over the complications with their move from Manhattan to a rural farm. “Farm livin’ is the life for me/ Land spreadin’ out so far and wide/ Keep Manhattan, just give me that countryside,” sings Albert, while Gabor pleads to return to Park [...]
Making Road Construction More Environmentally Friendly
July 9th, 2011 Eric Wilson Let’s face it, there’s nothing really sustainable about the current transportation sector in this country. While bike sharing programs and walkable, carless cities have emerged both domestically and abroad, the reliance on infrastructure – namely roads and rails, not to mention air travel – alone comes at a great cost to both the pocket book [...]
Posted in Economics, Eric Wilson, Recylcing, Sustainability, Transportation Tags: Bike Sharing, Carless Cities, Coal, Environment, Lifecycle, Natural Gas, Solar Roadways, USGBC No Comments »2nd Green Revolution Sponsoring Urban Wildland Race
June 27th, 2011 2nd Green Revolution 2nd Green Revolution will be this year’s bib sponsor for the Urban Wildland race in the Minneapolis, Minnesota suburb of Richfield. The race, comprised of a 5K and a half marathon, takes place on Saturday, August 6th. The half marathon will begin at 7:00am and the 5K starts 15 minutes later. We decided to sponsor [...]
The Postal Service’s Green Efforts
June 11th, 2011 Eric Wilson The United States Postal Service (USPS) has engaged in a sustainability push over the past several years. Many of their efforts have been documented on their website. In addition, the USPS launched their Go Green stamp collection, which was released in April of this year. Consisting of 16 stamps (available for purchase online), the pane [...]
Songdo International Business District in South Korea: World’s Largest Planned Community
May 18th, 2011 Justin Manger On a flight to Charleston, SC, I picked up United’s Hemispheres Magazine. Often a companion on 14 hour sleep deprived jaunts to Japan, the publication often has surprisingly interesting articles and facts. (In a separate piece on the Blue Ridge Parkway, I learned that 6,684ft. Mount Mitchell is the tallest point east of the Mississippi). Over [...]
Four Friday Facts: Drinking Water
May 13th, 2011 Eric Wilson In yesterday’s post about the EZH2O water dispenser from Elkay comes the following facts about drinking water. According to Food & Water Watch, more than 17 million barrels of oil — enough to fuel one million cars for a year– are needed to produce the plastic water bottles sold in the United States annually. – [...]
Spectrum Ecycle: Responsible Electronic Waste Disposal in St. Louis
May 9th, 2011 Eric Wilson One of the biggest issues with electronics waste is the proper disposal of potentially toxic materials. Countless exposés can be found online that reveal the horrors of e-waste dumping abroad. See below for a clip from a recent 60 Minutes story on the illegal practices from some e-waste recyclers that claim to properly recycle old [...]
Posted in Business, Conservation, Eric Wilson, Recylcing Tags: Chemicals, Corporate Social Responsibility, E-waste, EPA, LEED, Saint Louis Missouri No Comments »
