Homeowners apply 90 million pounds of pesticide to their lawns, much more than farmers use. A farmer friend pointed out to me recently that homeowners in our community use more chemicals on their lawns than most farmers use on their crops. Sure enough, a little research turned up some really startling statistics behind the American [...]
Our toilets and sewer systems are the perfect “pathogen dispersal systems” according to Sunita Narain of the Center for Science and Environment in India. “We take a small amount of contaminated material and use it to create vast quantities of water unfit for human consumption,” says Narain. And we do it several times a day, [...]
Many of us have watched our utility bills triple in the past few years, if you are a senior, or living on a fixed income, this can be a real problem. Here are three ways you can level off your utility bills and green your home at the same time. “About 30-35 percent of your [...]
With stocks plummeting, home heating prices soaring and money tight, many people looks toward winter with fear and trepidation. One of the best ways to alleviate this fear is to take a positive action like having a home energy audit. Almost half of our energy use goes into heating and cooling our homes. We are [...]
Right now many of us are planning our Thanksgiving Dinner. We have a big decision; to sit in front of a meal of imported ingredients, grown around the world in places the Pilgrims never set foot, or, skip the supermarket and source all the ingredients for Thanksgiving dinner from local farms, mills and growers. Eating [...]
Picture in your mind the food ladder. Starting at the bottom rung, we have the most abundant and free source of energy on the planet; solar, which is consumed by plants (next rung) to make food energy, which is consumed by animals (next rung) to make protein, which is consumed by man. Except in a [...]
It’s hard not to feel Grinch-green during the holidays because of the rampant consumerism, waste, and emissions generated by all that shopping and gift giving. Here’s a few ways to green your holidays without being a Scrooge or Grinch. Those lovely twinkling lights can generate as much global warming pollution as about 250,000 cars, according [...]
Some 200 million acres of the world’s farms grew biotech crops last year, with over 90 percent of the genetically-engineered (GE) seeds coming from US-based Monsanto. Scientists have taken genetic materials from one organism (like a soil bacterium), along with an antibiotic resistant marker gene, and spliced both into a food crop (like corn) to [...]
Organic Valley, the nation’s oldest organic farmer-owned cooperative founded in 1988, has announced the launch of New York Fresh milk, a locally-produced milk for its consumers in the New York metropolitan region. The milk is produced on the cooperative’s family farms in the Empire State and bottled, distributed and sold in the region, ensuring fewer [...]
You can save money and the environment with Build It Green NYC. Build It Green! NYC, is New York City’s only non-profit retail outlet for salvaged and surplus building materials. Their warehouse has everything from panel doors to high end refrigerators and shutters to movie props. Their mission is to keep these materials out of [...]
