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 [...]
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Not Your Average Bus Trip: How “Green” is that Green Bus? Part 3
December 31st, 2011 
Heather Perry I should take a moment to describe the Lovecraft Biofuel conversion done on our bus. To safeguard against any particles that might bypass the filtration system, an additional inline fuel filter causes the engine to stall when clogged, preventing potentially irreparable engine damage. This inline filter came in handy when we broke down in Utah [...]
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Tags: Battery, Bicycles, Colorado, Green Bus Series, Heather Perry, Minnesota, Solar Energy, Zero Waste 
No Comments »Rethinking Food Waste
December 22nd, 2011 Megan Stilley I recently read an article in the Urban Farm magazine that discussed how to reduce your food waste. I found it very informative. Since we are currently in a season of consumption, we can all learn some new tips on reducing our food waste. We also need to reduce our food waste since according to [...]
Five Friday Facts: CU-Buffaloes
September 16th, 2011 Eric Wilson As a follow up to the EPA’s Game Day Challenge post from earlier this week, this set of Five Friday Facts deals with the waste diversion efforts at the University of Colorado Boulder’s football stadium. Virtually all public food and beverage services in Folsom Field have converted have switched to recyclable or compostable materials and [...]
Posted in Conservation, Eric Wilson, Five Friday Facts, Recylcing Tags: Boulder-Colorado, Carbon Dioxide, Composting, Energy, EPA, Waste, Zero Waste No Comments »EPA’s Game Day Challenge Aims to Reduce College Football Waste
September 14th, 2011 Eric Wilson Go to most any sporting event and the amount of waste produced is astonishing. From little trays and plastic spoons to giant foam fingers that end up discarded along with countless tchotchkes, the amount of trash generated overflows from bins and remains scattered around seats. In 2008, the University of Colorado at Boulder began an [...]
Posted in Eric Wilson, News, Recylcing Tags: AASHE, Boulder-Colorado, Composting, Emory, EPA, Zero Waste No Comments »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 »Two Albertsons Stores Achieve “Zero Waste”
December 9th, 2010 Chris DeArmond Albertsons recently announced in a press release that two of its Santa Barbara stores reached “zero waste” status. Each has diverted over 95 percent (2,074,328 pounds) of all waste products from landfill or incineration – meeting the 90 percent standard to be classified as “zero waste.” To accomplish this, the stores relied on three components. [...]
Posted in Business, Recylcing Tags: California, Chris DeArmond, Composting, EPA, Food, Santa Barbara, Waste, Zero Waste No Comments »Surviving Half a Year Without Food
September 29th, 2010 Eric Wilson Several months ago I wrote about the worm bin that I keep in the garage beneath my apartment building. I was going to give them up; donate them to the school where I was working. A friend and former classmate in the Master Composter Class I took had a nice outdoor bin as well as [...]
