So I posted this comment on twitter as robotchampion:
@gavinNewsom in San Francsico, signs first ever compost mandate, requires food scraps be gathered for composting. – http://tr.im/qeQJ
And got this response in Facebook:
“Nothing like building global harmony through state coercion!”
Now this gets me going. In my journeys through A Clean Life one thing keeps hitting me smack in the head. Our environmental problems come from us, the people.
You can’t blame the big companies anymore. You can’t blame the government anymore. There is nothing left to blame and that means we are the …
Good food is local and correctly priced. You can spend less, eat better, and improve your health.
A natural beautiful process that’s incredibly easy and doesn’t smell. Also learn about recycling and becoming zero waste.
You might find this strange but the most friction I encounter in my work with A Clean Life is through food. Folks are okay with trash and recycling. Many even entertain composting. But when it comes to food we are in scary territory.
Imagine that…more people are okay with sorting their trash than with learning about food.
I am lost on this one, but I do have a little clue. That is to question one of our basic assumptions, more is better.
I mean if you go to the market and their is …
I don’t know about you but the big question on my mind is…
Just what are you doing now?
Most of you probably know that I recently relocated to Southern California from Washington DC. It was an amazing trip home with Amy Senger (aka the Bear). She got me home safe and in love (with her, but that’s another story).
Getting home was the easy part. Now it’s ‘game time’ for me to start building momentum for the causes of A Clean Life. In that regard I am systematically building up my new …
On Sunday, May 10, I put out a call for my friends on twitter. I asked them to share their trash habits and what they do for the environment. Here are the results:
The Query
robotchampion: Friends, I’m interested in ur trash habits, share one thing u do for environment..reduce-reuse-recycle. Send responses w/ #acleanlife tag
The Answers
robotchampion: ive made a bigger effort to recycle all paper in my life, including carrying stuff around and from work to recycle bin at home
kmallwein: still more to do but traditional trash recycling + turn stuff & …
* Thx much to Amy Senger for snagging this shaggy bit
Good news. Washington DC you are recycling newspaper, cardboard, and bottles at higher than the national rate.
Bad news. Washington DC you only recycle 18% of your trash when 36% of your trash is recyclable. This is costing the district an extra $250k and unduly burdening the environment.
2008 Residential Waste Report
Those were the findings of the latest Recycling report from the Department of Public Works for DC. The report (linked below) closely examined the trash stream to get some hard numbers. …
A Clean Life recommends this for your indoor composting. Click to buy on Amazon and part of the proceeds will come back to us (the white one is cheaper!).
