• What to do with all this Recyclable Stuff?

    Does your community offer a home recycling program? Well if the answer is yes, then take advantage of a great opportunity with Recyclebank.com. This innovative site promotes living green in every fashion. Its mission is to take action that will have a positive impact on our planet by trading the actions you make with the […]

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  • Economy vs. Ecology

    Consumers must continually increase their consumption of products to feed the economy so that it can grow and expand, which in return, supports their accustomed lifestyles.  A robust economy where everyone can buy whatever they want to make their lives easier is the American Dream– freedom from want, without sacrifice. The flaw in this thinking […]

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  • Parking Around the World

    Parking Around the World

    For most people, parking probably isn’t the first thing to come to mind when reading about sustainability and transportation. When was the last time you read about parking policies, compared to articles about biking or high-speed rail?  But cars are still a major part of our transportation network and progressive parking policies have surprisingly good benefits when […]

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  • The World’s Largest Garbage Dump

    The world’s largest garbage dump is the Pacific Ocean.  Right now, there is a huge mass of floating plastic garbage that could be twice the size of the United States or twice the size of Texas.  No one knows for sure how big it really is.  But it has been named the Great Pacific Garbage Patch and it is poisoning […]

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  • Urban Composting

    Cities have an abundance of food. Thousands of restaurants, caterers, grocery stores, bodegas and households comprise the network of establishments that thrive on food’s production and consumption in NYC. It is easy to think of each of these places that receives and redistributes food as stops along a path to one final human consumer. However, […]

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