Architect Michael Reynolds produces this independent film called Garbage Warrior in which he uses garbage to build houses. I have been following Michael for a while and salivating over his Earthship homes. The bathroom are beautiful with walls of colored glass bottle bottoms emitting a rainbow of sunlight into the bath. Check out this humorous …
Here’s another reason to carry a few canvas or reusable bags with you on your next shopping trip. Recently, on vacation in San Francisco, I unfortunately shot this picture of a crow eating a plastic bag. Many sea life and other animals mistake plastic bags for other animals that they feed on like jellyfish for …
The Swiss have a blue bag program, but it is not a recycling, but a garbage program. The blue bags come in small, medium and large and on average cost $1.50 each (medium bag). Households pay for the very bags that they have to package up their garbage in. So the more garbage you have, …
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The Story of Stuff is an online documentary about all of the stuff we get. It clearly advocates from some strong points-of-view, but it is well made and fun…you may also learn something from it. For instance, did you know that only 1% of the goods consumed through our current economic production system are still …
Like most libraries, our library brings in thousands of newspapers and magazines each year. If we kept each paper copy of each periodical that we’ve received over the forty years of our library’s existence, we would not be able to walk around because we’d have magazines all over the place. Plus, we’d probably be violating …
