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Issue #3: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Blog Carnival
October 31, 2007

Posted by CindyW in : Gems from Others , trackback

Through our Reduce, Reuse, Recycle carnival, we have learned so many ways of practicing the three Rs from others. Thanks everyone for contributing to this community-based conversation and sharing great personal experience and tips.

Almost all parents have run into the situation where the kids are starving and the only food around is in the vending machine. Writing from Mindful Momma, Michaela gives great advice on bringing your own waste-free snacks in removable trays or the incredibly cute snack sack. We love the idea!

Edited by Emily King and Jessie Johnston, Intelligent Travel writes in to recommend a nice little private nature reserve in Costa Rica’s last remaining lowland tropical rain forest. The interesting part is that “guests’ food scraps are fed to the lodge’s resident swine. As a result, the pigs produce methane that workers than trap and funnel to the kitchen” to make meals. Reduce, reuse and recycle indeed!

Charles Green writes a very thought provoking entry on the economy of business green practices. As business geeks ourselves, we have a soft theoretical spot for ROI and cash flow. It’s an interesting opinion piece on why many businesses are not willing to go green. Apparently a 10 year, 7 year, even 2 year payback time is too long. Charles provides analysis on this sort of short-term thinking.

Kevin from More4kids suggests raising eco-friendly kids. He believes that “one of the first steps in raising your children to be eco friendly is to be eco friendly yourself.”

Raymond does not think the earth doomsday scenario, because the planet is “a living, intelligent, vibrant organism”. There is all the more reason for all of us to treat it with respect. He suggests seven ways of doing so in our daily lives, and “recycle whenever possible” tops the list.

Wenchypoo dispenses some wisdom from her mental wastebasket. A friend did not know what to do with an odd piece of furniture. Craigslist? Freecycle? Classified ads? The author suggests different ways of reusing it, and reports that the “formerly unusable low bookcase has been turned into a shoe shelf in the mud room.

CindyW at Organicpicks

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