Articles tagged with: environment
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A helpful guide to farmers markets by day all around the WMA (washington metropolitan region). The list includes markets from DC, MD, and VA from the small stands to the big FreshFarm/Smark Markets.
I have visited many of these markets but not all. If you go to one please pass along your experience. It would be helpful to know that all are open and worth visiting.
And, if you’re starved for quality local food on off-days the Silver Spring Coop is open everyday from 9-9pm and located at – 8309 Grubb Road, …
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Starting January 1 of this year (2010) everybody in the district will be coughing up 5 cents to get a plastic or paper bag from every place that sells food or alcohol. That’s right we’ve reached the point where American laziness is preventing progress and we are switching to forceful laws (aka progressive taxation).
It’s really a test of environmental will which I’m calling the ‘great DC bag experiment‘. The revenue from the bag tax will go towards cleaning up the Anacostia River. A laudable cause. Even a progressive one. In …
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As summer comes to a close and school begins anew I wanted to take some time to highlight something special in DC. The Mayor’s Conservation Corps.
This is a city sponsored effort to provide district youth with social employment. They get paid $7.25/hour and participate in programs like graffiti removal, cleaning parks, community projects, outreach, and more.
It is really a fantastic program for our fair city, which is in need of some beautification. Especially the non-NorthWest affluent areas. Then our kids, oh gosh, have you seen some of these youngsters. If …
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I love being a part of a community with A Clean Life. There are so many people living the way we all can/should. Here is one, Dave Cacner, an avid composter. Read on as Dave shares some of his clean lifestyle with us:
What is the favorite environmental thing you do?
It’s a toss-up between making compost and recycling/reusing what I can. I’ll take whatever vegetable matter we don’t use in the house and compost it. I’ve even been known to empty the vacuum cleaner bag or take out the dryer lint …
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Every couple of Sundays I put out a question for my friends on twitter. I ask them to update me on their trash habits and what they do for the environment. Below is my query from June 7 and here is one from May 10
The Query
robotchampion:
Do u remember #acleanlife sundays? – http://www.greensalmanac.com/?p=138 – last time 6 people and myself responded…lets go for seven!!
#acleanlife sundays – I’m interested in ur trash habits, share one thing u do for environment..reduce-reuse-recycle. Send w/ #acleanlife tag
The Answers
bindr we always use our made-from-recycled-material bags …
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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 & …
