By SUSAN CARPENTER May 30, 2009 Even before L.A.’s new water restrictions were scheduled to kick in, I’d been using a bucket to haul the murky bath waters from my dirt-encrusted 6-year-old’s nightly scrub-down into my garden. I was on a mission to save as much water as possible, and the 30 gallons he was [...]

Company donates bins for recycling all types of materials – Packaging Digest Alcoa announced today that more than 50 U.S. Army National Guard facilities in Illinois, through support from the Illinois Recycling Association, will enhance their recycling programs by using recycling bins donated by Alcoa. More than 1,000 green, 22-gallon bins have been shipped from [...]

By Pamela Buxton A structure made from old copies of the Guardian is the latest achievement of engineer James Thomson’s Paper Project As a child, James Thomson used to build play houses in his back garden, constructing geodesic domes out of rolled up Times Education Supplements with the help of his maths teacher father. A [...]

On today’s show, John and Mike host Mike Parisi, a local “eco”preneur who recently opened the fourth Pizza Fusion restaurant in California. Pizza Fusion, a franchise that originated in Florida, is dedicated to producing high quality, organic food and “the greenest pizza in America.” Listen in as they discuss how the Pizza Fusion chain is [...]

Published by Sam Leppanen on May 28, 2009 under Recycle at Green By Design More products are becoming recyclable, and we’re doing more with reused and recycled products. It’s coming to a point where I find myself asking, “You can recycle that?” Recycled Paints Shopping for paint recently, I came across recycled paint. This doesn’t [...]

Bill would have makers reduce it, pay for recycling By Beth Daley It can seem a green contradiction: Compact fluorescent lights – those spiral energy-efficient bulbs used to fight global warming – contain mercury, a toxic metal. If the bulb breaks, mercury vapor can harm infants, pregnant women, and children. If tossed in landfills or [...]

by Ross A. Courtney Yakima Herald-Republic TOPPENISH, Wash. — Out on the farmland, those plastic containers used to ship and hold pesticides can really pile up. Take Matt Sealock, who makes his living spraying pesticides and other chemicals for farmers. He empties out enough plastic containers to fill at least four semitrailers a year. Rather [...]

By GreenBiz Staff OAKLAND, Calif. — McDonald’s has gathered more than 80 green practices from locations and operations worldwide for its 2009 Global Best of Green report. The compilation features successful practices that cover energy, packaging, anti-littering, recycling, logistics, communications, restaurants, workplace, sustainable food and supplier leadership. The company chose to highlight practices it feels [...]

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By MAGGIE GALEHOUSE Mark Austin does not drink alcohol. But two mornings a week, his clothes drenched with the dregs of hundreds of beer and wine bottles, he smells like a bad hangover. “Handling glass is a pain,” Austin concedes, as he hoists tubs of empty bottles from the alley behind Shade restaurant into the [...]

Aimee Zimmerman Serious runners can go through running shoes as the seasons change. Even casual runners will need to replace their old tired running shoes with newer models someday. And although runners often feel a strange connection to the running shoes that helped them cross the finish line in that last big race, at some [...]

Reporting by Brita Belli While solar industry growth has slowed with the economy as a whole, it’s still gaining ground through corporate investment, writes Green Energy News. Communications company Cox Enterprises just finished its 100-kilowatt photovoltaic (PV) solar system at the company’s Manheim DRIVE facility in Stockbridge, Georgia. It’s now the biggest solar array hooked [...]