Dear Germany, When You Get To The Green Future, Please Throw The Rest Of Us A Rope!

Hailing from Freiburg, Germany, Rolf Disch is a renowned architect that has put his little city front and center on the eco-map. Literally transforming Freiburg into Germany’s eco-capital where about 35% of residents don’t own a car and new homes routinely incorporate photovoltaic panels. And now, a popular destination for tourist world-wide seeking the reality of sustainable architecture and the inspiration for better eco-friendly housing options for their future. (more…)

Since Hurricane Ike, the City of Houston has been trying to figure out how
to recycle the wood debris.  From Galveston to North of Houston, there is
plenty of wood debris to be collected but not sent to the local landfills.

So the City has come up with a nationwide contest in hopes of someone coming
up with a recycling idea that will get rid of 5.6 million cubic yards of
tree waste cleaned up from households and front yards. (more…)

According to the EPA (Enviromental Protection Agency), Americans produced 251
million tons of municipal solid waste in 2006. That’s 4.5 pounds a day for every man,
woman, and child in the country. The good news is 82 million tons of that waste was
recycled or composted. Good show people!

The materials recycled in 2006 the EPA estimates as follows:

Aluminum Cans ———- 45.1% (more…)

WASTED is a 30 minute show on the Planet Green Channel. The host (Annabelle Guriwitch
and Holter Graham), go into peoples homes and teach them how to cut down on their
waste thereby lowering their ecological footprint.

They developed an internationally recognized, ecological footprint calculator that
measures factors like waste, energy and fuel consumption and translates that data into
land size.

For example, in the episode I watched, a couple in an 1300 sq. ft. apartment in New
York City, calculated like this. Their living space is 0.03 acres, which should be
their footprint. However, their eco-footprint = 49.8 acres, 1600 times the size of
their property. (more…)

June 15 is Father’s Day in the U.S. For everybody else, go ahead and get Dad
something, he will wonder what you are up to. Anyway, save your gas, the last
minute panic attack and get something he will really like and use.

Trash Composter – No fuss, no muss compost. Food waste is processed automatically
$299.00 and continually. (more…)

What to do with your old cell phone. Folks are getting new ones everyday and have not
done anything with the old ones except throw them away.

There are a couple of ways to dispose the old cell phones. You can donate them but
be sure to remove your personal information. When you donate, for instance, the
cell phones will be re-furbished and given to charities like Domestic Abuse (more…)

Hydroponics, simply put, is the process of growing plants in water and not soil. The
nutrient rich water circulates around and saturates the seed or plant root. The root
does not have to “hunt” around in the soil for the nutrients, ergo, stronger, faster
growing plants. No need for the environmentally toxic pesticides of commercial
growers.

I have always had a keen interest in hydroponics. But I never had the time or the
know how to pursue it. That changed last December when I saw an ad for Aerogarden.
A revolutionary, self-contained, hydroponic device, that does (more…)