Bottles or Cans

Slate.com ran an article today intended to help with St. Patrick's Day celebrations. Which has less of an environmental impact: bottles or cans? There are several factors beyond the simple question of which item is recyclable....Click here for the full article: Wear Green, Drink Greenly The eco-guide to responsible drinking.

Fbg Teen Wins Scholarship for Recycled Purses

Take a look at the Teen Vogue Site below. One of our local residents demonstrates the "REUSE" from the three "R's" of "Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle". Her purse design helped win a scholarship and a national audience! Great Job!

Teen Vouge Stylistas

Recycling Incentive Programs

USA Today ran an article in July, outlining a recycling rewards program in Cherry Hill, NJ. Some of the statistics cited show an increase in recycling nationwide from 62 million tons in 2000, to 82 millions tons of trash in 2006. The rewards program focused on the individual statistic, revealing average households create 80 pounds of recyclable garbage a month. Read the article to see how the program works, and how a municipality can earn money through the commodities market.

Reaping Rewards for Recycling, Charisse Jones (USA Today).

DIY Recycling!

Here's a fun summer project...make your own paper with your own paper! Every week we all receive plenty of junk mail and generate plenty of unwanted paper. Collect it for a week or so, and follow the instructions in the video below. You'll end up with your own style of paper when your done! Good Luck!

Home Depot Has a Bright Idea!

Home Depot became the first national chain to accept expired, unbroken CFL bulbs. Simply bring the bulbs in to your local Home Depot and pass them over the counter to a store associate. For citizens of Fredericksburg, your closest Home Depot is in Kerrville, but on trips to San Antonio, you can stop in at the stores in Boerne and Dripping Springs. Read more from the press release from Home Depot at: http://www6.homedepot.com/ecooptions/stage/pdf/cfl_recycle.pdf

2008-07-20 - NPR on Bottled Water

Bottled water is becoming a bigger concern for a lot of people. NPR ran a story about the recent US Conference of Mayors' resolution to ban the purchase of bottled water in city buildings. If you missed it, take a moment and give it a listen at: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92705092.

L.A. Times OP/ED about Geo-Engineering

Beyond reduction of emmisions, what else can be done to offset the effects of Global Warming? Are there engineering solutions that could be used to block solar radiation? Take a look a the L.A. Times OP/ED piece: Reseting the Earth's Thermastat. Remember to leave a comment with your thoughts!