Yearly Archives: 2016
Posted on Monday, December 19, 2016
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You hear it all the time, “The holidays are the most
wonderful time of the year!” And they
are! The holiday spirit brings out the
best in almost everyone. Kids are doing
their finest Saint Theresa impression to stay off the naughty list and adults
tend to mimic this behavior by showcasing their most generous and kind
selves. The moment Thanksgiving...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Sustainability, Giving, Community, Landfill-Free, Landfills, Environment, Solid Waste, Trash, Garbage, Compost, Composting, Food scraps, Evironmental Responsibility, Earth, Planet, Carbon Footprint, Kids, Children, Christmas, Holidays, Gifts, Trees, Lights, Santa, Decorations, Ribbon, Ewaste, E-Waste, Green Christmas, Save Money
Posted on Thursday, October 20, 2016
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The sun is beating down on the mound of a newly constructed
baseball field as the pitcher winds up to throw his fastball to the batter who
has spent hours swinging the bat preparing for this pitch. In the distance, children are running around
a track, pumping their legs on the swings of a playset and climbing rock walls
to reach the top of an 8ft slide. Adults
and children alike...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Sustainability, Giving, Community, Giving Back, Donation, Landfills, Environment, Solid Waste, Trash, Garbage, Compost, Organic, Biosolids, Organic waste, Evironmental Responsibility, Earth, Planet, Carbon Footprint, Energy Consumption, Kids, Children, dumps, recreation, parks, picnic, wildlife, baseball
Posted on Tuesday, August 9, 2016
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These outfits are a stylish “Glamour Do” for your wardrobe
but a big “Glamour Don’t” when it comes to your recycling bin! The average Materials Recovery Facility (MRF)
receives enough articles of clothing to make your local Good Will green with
envy! It’s understandable, when your
closet starts to fill, you want to get rid of the old to make...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Sustainability, Giving, Environment, Fashion, Glamour, Clothing, Plastic Bags, Propane Tanks, Chains, Reuse, Trends, MRF
Posted on Monday, May 2, 2016
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"If you wait until you can do everything for everybody, instead of something for somebody, you’ll end up doing nothing for nobody"In order to become and remain successful for any period of
time, a local business needs the support of the surrounding communities. Business
entrepreneurs who learn and practice the methods necessary to gain and maintain
this support will position their...
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Tagged:Education, School, Grant, Award, Entrepreneurship, Giving, Community, Giving Back, Donation, Environment, Evironmental Responsibility, Children
Posted on Wednesday, April 20, 2016
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Clearing up the confusion as to what you should place in your residential recycle bin in the 21st Century and how well Americans are doing with recycling todayBelieve it or not, Americans have been researching the
rewards of residential recycling since the early 1970’s. Yep. It’s a fact. Nixon was (still) president, the first Earth Day was observed, the Environmental Protection...
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Posted on Monday, March 28, 2016
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A profound quote from Canadian poet and novelist, Margaret
Atwood expresses, "In the spring, at the end of the day, you
should smell like dirt." Celebrated American author and poet,
Henry David Thoreau – when penning his wonders of spring – eloquently affirmed,
“So
mild the air a pleasure 'twas to breathe, for what seems heaven above was earth
beneath.” For those who...
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Tagged:Green, Environment, Compost, Composting, Organic, Weather, Earth, Planet, Kids, Children, Spring, Yard, Garden, Pruning, Plants
Posted on Monday, March 14, 2016
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According to the last EPA report, Americans generated 33 million tons of plastics in 2013, but recycled only nine percent of that. The rest ends up in landfills where it may take up to 1,000 years to decompose, and potentially leak pollutants into the soil and water. Beyond that, it’s estimated that as much as 100 million tons of plastic debris is floating in the world’s oceans,...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Education, Sustainability, Landfills, Environment, Evironmental Responsibility, Plastic Bottles
Posted on Tuesday, February 23, 2016
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Saving energy does not require a lot
of money or time. It simply requires knowledge, commitment, a plan and action.By acknowledging and capturing the energy inefficiencies
that you create or ignore on a daily basis, you can radically reduce your
energy bills, thereby reducing greenhouse gas emissions caused by power plants,
ultimately reducing your carbon
footprint. While new technologies...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Education, Sustainability, Environment, Evironmental Responsibility, Earth, Planet, Carbon Footprint, Energy Consumption
Posted on Wednesday, February 3, 2016
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Some fascinating, mystifying, and
amusing facts about the El Niño weather cycle phenomenon and why we should pay
attention“Seems it never rains
in southern California”, pined Albert
Hammond in his 1972 Billboard chart topper. Perhaps coincidentally, 1972
was a La Niña weather-pattern year, the
coin-flip antithesis of the intense El
Niño pattern that we are...
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Tagged:Green, Recycle, Recycling, Sustainability, Environment, Compost, Composting, Evironmental Responsibility, Weather, Global Warming, Earth, Planet
Posted on Tuesday, January 26, 2016
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The process of commercial composting
produces a variety of undesirable byproducts unless facilitated responsibly in
a state-of-the-art indoor facility.By now, most of us have a good grasp on the features,
benefits and methods of composting our own food scraps and yard waste at home. It
is an environmentally-responsible behavior that provides a useful product for
our gardens, and is a great...
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Tagged:Green, Sustainability, Compost, Composting, Organic, Wastewater, Biosolids, Compostable, Food scraps, Organic waste, Grass clippings