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 ...

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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 - ...

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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) Paper: 2-4 Weeks Banana Peel: 3-5 Weeks Wool Cap: 1 Year Cigarette Butt: 2-5 Years Disposable ...

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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

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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 ...

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