Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
The state of Vermont has long been hailed as the greenest place in the United States due to the ‘consistent thinking about low-impact living.’ The state, after all, is profuse with trees, farms, and backyard compost heaps. It also has environmentally aware citizens, and no crowded expressways. In other words, Vermont is green basically because it has more spaces with less people. ‘The population of Vermont’s largest city, Burlington, is just under 40,000.’ But Vermont ‘sets a poor environmenta
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Saturday, September 12th, 2009
Could you eat locally grown and produced food for two weeks?It’s time to share some reduce, reuse, recycle and composting stories from around the internet.Every one of these stories will help us work towards a zero waste future.Reducing food wasteWe all know how bad food waste is for the environment. Once it gets to landfill it produces methane which is a potent greenhouse gas.Many people use bokashi bins or compost heaps for some food waste, but reducing food waste in the first place is even mo
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