There is a secret undercover teacher eating school lunches. Mrs. Q has decided to slum it with our best and brightest for a whole year. I say slum it because the food she is eating looks absolutely horrid.
Or, it looks just like what every American eats on a daily basis: pizza, hot dogs, pasta, chicken nuggets.
Every day she takes a photo of the food and writes about it. It looks so nasty you just have to see it to believe it (are you eating this too?)…
Day 86 – Hot Dogs

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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 …

I love the idea of zero waste. It’s something that catches everyone and gets them to think.

Is it possible?
How would we do something like that?
What would our world look like?

I guess it depends on if your a visionary or a realist. Either way here are five things I can tell you about zero waste.

I am living a zero waste lifestyle. I’m not a radical extremist either. I do not stick out or need special help. My life is simpler and easier since I made the change and I’m also happier …

It’s Sunday night I’m a grump too. Walt and I share the blues:
Something startles me where I thought I was safest,
I withdraw from the still woods I loved,
Though, for me the grumps come from exhaustion and a happy but tired end to the week. So, I was pleased to come across this poem by Walt Whitman called “This Compost”.

Behold this compost! behold it well!
Alas, soon I will fall asleep and my grumps will dream themselves away. Still I thought it pertinent to share this moment with you, in all its …

One of the big initiatives of the nonprofit, A Clean Life, is education. To truly develop a sustainable lifestyle for our community we need to help each other learn and grow.
The good part is that everyone already knows an incredible amount about the trash system in their community. They know when the trash comes, how to sort their own trash, what to recycle at work, and sometimes even the local recycling stations.
The next step is to add a new layer to that, compost. The process of composting is actually very …

Tonight I visited the Whole Foods stores of Washington D.C. and spoke with a nice lady named Erin. She is a part of the green mission for the market super chain. Thank you very much Erin for showing me around the compost operations.
Whole Foods is truly a unique operation in that it actually has a green mission. The mission is a part of its core values to care “About Our Communities & Our Environment”. Now, I bet most of you are thinking that this is another corporate ploy. I had …