Our dogs and cats are our companions and we naturally want to take care of them. If you are a pet owner you probably give a lot of thought to what you feed your pet. What you probably don’t think about is what happens to the waste they generate once you dispose of it. Most...
Recycling
Refuse Or At Least Reuse Plastic Utensils
How many times have you been given plastic utensils when you have take out food? How often does that plastic ware end up going into the garbage without even being used? A plastic coffee lid is use for about an hour and then thrown away. Plastic bags are used for the trip home from...
Environmental Examiner
- Chicago's Budget Woes May Cost Its Green Reputation
- The Environment and Economy Are Only Separated by Language
- Permaculture Comes to Chicagoland
- Chicago Asked To Take A Bullet In The Battle Against The Asian Carp
- The Business of the Environment is not an Oxymoron
- Water Treatment Leasing: short term gains with long term consequenses
- Urban Wildlife is closer than you think
- Peak Oil Should Still Worry You: The Hot Air in New Natural Gas Estimates
- Backyard Chicken Movement is growing fast and coming home to roost
- Community Gardens may be a sign of the times but they are in Chicago to stay
Re-thinking what you consider to be junk: re-use and re-purpose
The world is filling up with stuff. Modern industrial society has lost touch with the real value of what it produces. Our wasteful consumption and our disposable attitude toward so much of what we produce and use is going to hurt our children. In spite of the fact that most parents would never eat...
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