Materials woven of fabric, plastic or paper available in various lengths and widths that are meant to cover soil surfaces for protection.

Mulch is used to benefit plants and soil, but sometimes “sour” or “acid” mulch can damage plant tissue and lower soil pH levels.

Durable, renewable and tasty, the soybean has many uses. Soy-based building products are rapidly become the choice of many.

Tennessee-based Good Sports Always Recycle has aimed to clean up large-scale sporting events for years. Now it’s aiming to get grade schoolers involved.

A form of work arrangement that does not require riding transportation to an office, but rather telecommunications links such as internet and phone technologies.

A pit in which trash or garbage is buried, usually only organic garbage.

Waste paper produced by mills during the paper making process that has traditionally been reused in manufacturing paper.

Laws requiring a product or type of packaging to contain a certain percentage of recycled material.

Sudden, massive growths of microscopic and macroscopic plant life, such as green or bluegreen algae, which develop in lakes and reservoirs–sometimes becoming an environmental problem.

A control device that oxidizes volatile organic compounds (VOCs) by using a catalyst to promote the combustion process.

A mining technique in which the land and vegetation covering the mineral intended for mining are stripped away by huge machines, usually damaging the land severely and limiting subsequent uses.

The area taken up by a large or expanding development or city, including the outskirts of the city and its suburbs that are linked by auto-depedent development.