Category Archives: Global Warming

Engineering Food

I was taking a minute this morning to read yet another article from my months old Green Issue of Vanity Fair. As I was reading a particular article about a giant chemical corporation engineering seeds and creating growth hormones, I couldn’t help but feel sick. There’s just something creepy about messing with life and nature….

Put the Cycle in Recycle

It’s a new explanation of the idea of recycling that I heard on TV recently. A huge part of Recycling is the Cycle. If you purchase a product and its packaging and they are manufactured from virgin material and then you toss what you can of the packaging into the recycling bin – IS THAT…

Answers: How Long Does It Take To Biodegrade?

From 4/11/08: Can you put this list in order? (Answers below) Tin Can Disposable Diaper Plastic 6-pack Holder Paper Wool Cap Aluminum Can Glass Bottles Rubber Boot Sole Banana Peel Cigarette Butt Hard Plastic Container Here are the answers to the list I posted yesterday: (I did my research at the Bureau of Land Management)…

How Long Does It Take To Biodegrade?

Can you put this list in order? (Answers posted tomorrow) Tin Can Disposable Diaper Plastic 6-pack Holder Paper Wool Cap Aluminum Can Glass Bottles Rubber Boot Sole Banana Peel Cigarette Butt Hard Plastic Container

Don’t Medicate the Earth!

Many of us are acting as unwilling doctors without a license to prescribe when we dispose of our old or unused prescription or over-the-counter drugs and medications. I had reason to clean out my pantry last week, call it an ant invasion, and I found many old drugs that I wanted to clean out. We…