December 1, 2009
Eco-Friendly Living
There are consequences to our national habit of sending food to landfills. American food waste has significant environmental, economic, and cultural ramifications.
On average, Americans waste 40 percent of our food supply, which is more than 1400 calories of food per person per day, reports a new study by a team of National Institute of Health [...]
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October 5, 2009
Eco-Friendly Living
There is a reason that recycling comes last in the often-repeated maxim of “reduce, reuse, recycle.” That is where it should be: a last resort. Recycling is what we do with something when we have exhausted all opportunities to redesign the product to be more durable, to reuse or repair it, or to simply do [...]
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