Issue #5: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Blog Carnival
November 30, 2007
Posted by CindyW in : Gems from Others , 1 comment so far
Happy holidays! Once again it is time for us to present to you a number of fantastic reduce reuse recycle ideas from other green bloggers. Thanks everyone for contributing to this community-based conversation and sharing great personal experience and tips.
Christine, an American mom writes from Strasbourg - a city in northeastern France, – about what recycling means to her. “I recycle. If I don’t, it affects both people and the planet. As this is my planet, I feel an obligation to recycle as well as finding a joy in the act itself.”
To hang Christmas lights or not? With all the lights lit in your neighborhood, few of us have thought about the energy they are consuming (think millions of houses). Phil suggests that we decorate outside of our homes us without using light bulbs. Alternatively if you have your heart set on holiday twinkle, try out the LED lights – Rockefeller Christmas tree has 30,000 of them that use 10% of the energy normal light bulbs use.
In addition to the LED Christmas light recommendation Stephanie from Stop the Ride imparts other green Christmas tips, such as using comic section of newspaper or brown paper bags as wrapping paper and using newspaper, shredded paper, or plastic shopping bags for packing when sending gifts.
Dare to skip the holiday altogether? Treat it just like another exciting day in your life. Wenchypoo is doing just that. Amongst many reasons, she believes that “Holidays have become excuses to consume, wildly distorting the original meaning for celebrating these particular events.” Well, I must say, I more or less agree with her, about the holidays being hijacked by consumption part.
If you did not manage to avoid the damage to your bank account on black Friday, you may want to hear these tips from the baglady – being frugal and being green often cross each other’s paths. For example make your own sparkling water – avoid containers and spending $. Or you can be adventurous and make your own soap from leftover bacon.
If you did avoid the black Friday and want to get a gift that is good for the planet, Nature Mom Tiffany has just the thing for you. Reusable grocery bags from Mimi’s. Almost too pretty to put my carrots and squashes in. But it may just entice a non-reusable bag user to kick the plastic or paper habit. Good call.
Even though Al’s post is not exactly focused Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, we are excited to hear a green voice all the way across the Pacific Ocean from Asia. “The 13th ASEAN* summit held in Singapore shows promise of our region integration economically and brings various groups of people closer.” Their declaration includes increasing the forest cover of ASEAN region by 10 million hectares by 2020, reducing the loss of biodiversity in the ASEAN region by 2010, halving the number of people without access to clean drinking water by 2010, and more.
*ASEAN includes Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
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Bright & Green Christmas Lights
November 29, 2007
Posted by CindyC in : Opinions & Thoughts , 1 comment so far
The famed Rockefeller Christmas Tree was lit once again last night. But this year, the 84-foot tall symbol is illuminated with energy saving LED bulbs, instead of conventional bulbs. The tree is covered with 30,000 LED lights, strung on wires stretching 5 miles long. This simple switch will reduce energy consumption from 3,510 to 1,297 kilowatt per day; savings equivalent to energy usage for an average 2000 square-foot home in a month!
Although most of us won’t be using 30,000 lights to illuminate our tree or home, families can consume thousands of extra kilowatts in December on holiday lights. If you have your heart set on holiday twinkle, take a cue from the owners of Rockefeller Center and use energy efficient holiday lighting.
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LED lights use up to 90% less energy, are safe (cool) to touch and come in a variety of different styles. Just check out the dizzying selection at Environmental Lights.
In addition, here are a few other tips to conserve energy.
- Use fewer strings of lights. Your house doesn’t need to be seen from outer space to be festival.
- Use smaller bulbs. Tiny twinkles tend to be more chic anyway.
- Turn on the lights only for a few hours and turn off the lights when you go to bed. A simple timer can save you the trouble.
Even without environmental consideration, lavish use of Christmas lights can really hit the pocket book. Here’s a quick Christmas Light Energy Calculator to help you figure out the extra cost of holiday excess. If given the choice between spending an extra $100 on electric bills or a nice holiday dinner, I know which one I would choose.
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Turning Grease Into Fuel
November 28, 2007
Posted by CindyC in : Communities , 2 comments
Instead of emitting diesel fumes and greenhouse gases, city buses may soon smell like the restaurant dinner you had last night. Last Tuesday, San Francisco launched SFGreasecycle, a program which picks up used cooking oil from restaurants, hotels and other commercial sites and turns it into biodiesel called B20.
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Until now, the biodiesel used in city vehicles are made from soybeans grown and shipped from the Mid-West rather than locally recycled grease.
According to the San Francisco Chronicle, the city has been piloting SF Greasecycle since summer and now performs pickups for over 50 restaurants and 4 hotels. Participation in the program is completely free but service preference is given to businesses that currently don’t have service from any of the private recycling companies in the area. SFGreasecycle sends the recycled oil to a local biodiesel producer, Blue Sky Bio-fuels. The city is also in the process of determining feasibility of building its own biodiesel production plant.
Illegal dumping of cooking grease has long been a problem for the city. The grease congeals and form clogs in the sewer pipes, creating extra $3.5 million in maintenance costs. This program aims to eliminate this problem and satisfy San Francisco’s year end mandate of using diesel mixture that contains 20% biodiesel for the city’s fleet of 1500 diesel vehicle. With the B20 diesel mixture, city officials estimate reduction of carbon dioxide emissions by 15% and soot by 20%. I don’t know about you but I prefer the smell of food over diesel fumes any day. CindyC at Organicpicks If you enjoyed this entry, please subscribe to the Organic Picks Blog Copyright 2007 Organicpicks These days my attitude towards toys is decidedly quality over quantity. In fact, unless it is for a special occasion, I don’t actively seek them out. Luckily my kids seem to be perfectly content visiting our local library, playing in the playground, going on nature walks, or even just jumping in and out of the abundant and cushy leaf piles. It was by accident I ran into the Imagiplay toy booth at the Green Festival. What drew me immediately to it were the toy designs – intricate and clever puzzles with brilliant colors. These three-dimensional puzzles were mostly themed around nature and animals. Their look and feel plainly spoke quality to me. In spite of being quite busy, the lady at the booth patiently addressed my concern about the non-stop toy recalls. She reassured me that these puzzles were made from environmentally friendly material (rubber wood) and painted with tested non-toxic paints. After I visited their website, I corresponded with Barbera Aimes, the founder of Imagiplay. Her genuine voice convinced me that these were the right toys to buy and to recommend, besides the fact that both of my kids (5 and 3) absolutely loved the puzzles I got for them. What raw materials do you use for your toys? Why is rubber wood considered environmentally sound? How do you ensure the paints are non-toxic? Do you exercise any other precautionary measures? In response to my recent writing about Americans consuming too much stuff (me included, but trying to change), Barbera wrote a very sincere deliberation: “I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about that question myself. I’m kind of at cross purposes owing a company that produces consumer goods, yet believing that we all need to learn to consume less. I’ve come to wonder if the assumption that consuming creates a better lifestyle is a correct one? Are we any happier with lots and lots of stuff than we would be with little stuff? We just assume that more stuff = better lifestyle. I’ve begun to wonder if that’s true. Interesting question, huh? Especially from one who makes her living producing consumables. That’s why I feel the very heavy weight of responsibility to carefully produce only things that are beautiful, so they won’t end up in a landfill, are made from earth -responsible materials and made in a people-responsible way.” Barbera’s puzzles clearly fit my criteria – quality over quantity. By the way these beautiful puzzles can also be used as decorations in the kids’ rooms. Last but not the least, Barbera is kind enough to share a 10% discount code with Organicpicks readers: ORG0115 (case sensitive and good through 1/20/2008) CindyW at Organicpicks If you enjoyed this entry, please subscribe to the Organic Picks Blog Copyright 2007 Organicpicks A while ago, I read up on some disturbing impacts of car idling on the environment and decided to join a neighborhood effort to curb unnecessary idling. Our first target was the local school, where parents often idle during pick-up or drop-off time. Sometime, the parents idle up to 10 minutes, emitting car exhaust while other waiting children directly inhale the pollutant. The group had approached the principal last month and finally she responded last week. The principal was very supportive of our effort and will put our anti-idling brochure in the weekly newsletter. This was a great first step for us. However, to approve and enforce an anti-idling policy, we will need the support of the PTA. So next, we will work on our communication and campaign for PTA support. (The HCES actually offers an anti-idling tool kit to help local campaign efforts.) On a personal level, I was walking with my daughter right before Thanksgiving and noticed a fellow preschool mom walking towards an idling van. Although a bit apprehensive, I decided to strike up a conversation in attempt to bring up this issue (while our children were admiring each other’s backpacks). During our chat, I casually mentioned how expensive gas has become and how my family tries to conserve by consolidating errands or turning off the car when not needed. I mentioned I read that if the average family cut out 5 minutes of idling per day, they can save over $100 a year in fuel cost. (1) She said she never thought about how the cost of idling and how much it was costing her family. She actually thanked me for the suggestion. Although it was not the environmental epiphany I would like, this will hopefully mean one less car idling in the neighborhood. (1) http://www.thehcf.org/antiidlingprimer.html CindyC at Organicpicks If you enjoyed this entry, please subscribe to the Organic Picks Blog Other Green Journals: Copyright 2007 Organicpicks Today, the traditionally biggest shopping day of the year, came and went. While lots of people came away satisfied with their purchases, equal number of people complained about exhaustion and annoyance. Wait until the bill comes… This brings me to our last discussion for the series this week – happiness index. As I have always suspected that stuff does not bring happiness. Don’t get me wrong, I enjoy prosperity and happiness as much as the next person. The definition of a collectively prosperous and happy society is a philosophical question that is beyond the scope of this post. But personally speaking, prosperity and especially happiness really are not proportional to the amount of stuff I own. We all know that poverty does not lead to happiness. But when most of our material needs are satisfied, does it make us happier when we can afford to and do acquire more stuff? Marketplace visited the once-isolated Bhutan, a tiny South Eastern Asian country sandwiched between China and India. About seven years ago, television and internet opened up the country to the rest of the world. The brand new consumerism hit the country head on. Ironically “there’s a recorded increase in family breakup, and recorded increase in crime — especially violent crime.” Economist Richard Easterlin said that this kind of pattern had repeated itself in country after country. In China for example, income has tripled over the last 15 years, but life satisfaction seems to have declined. Back in the U.S. happiness (funny economists actually define and measure the happiness index) stopped increasing in the 1950s, though per-capita income has risen near 3 folds since then. Why? Profession Easterlin attributes that to human psychology, “Increases in income are matched by increases in aspirations for income. And the net effect is no change in happiness.” Professor Peter Whybrow who studies neuroscience and human behavior at UCLA thinks the shopping fervor may even be a disease, both mental and physical. “We grew up in scarcity - we evolved in scarcity, that is - so in fact, most of us don’t know what to do with abundance.” He continued to say, “we are pushing ourselves to our physiological limit. You can’t do the things we’re doing without seeing the predictable outcomes of obesity, Type II diabetes, sleep deprivation, anxiety, depression… All those things are predictable if you live a life where you’re constantly at the edge.” Disease or not, I don’t want to go there, as some big pharmaceutical companies are probably designing a pill to “cure that”, whatever it may be. Nonetheless, it is an interesting and thought provoking theory. So how do we find happiness in the age of abundance? It is a much much bigger topic than I can realistically tackle in one thread of discussion. But I know what made me very happy this Thanksgiving holiday: Just two content days without stepping into any insanely packed malls. To read earlier posts in our pre-Thanksgiving series: Before the holiday shopping mania sets in CindyW at Organicpicks If you enjoyed this entry, please subscribe to the Organic Picks Blog Copyright 2007 Organicpicks Many people like you and me are Our current government is dragging its petroleum soaked feet, what about businesses? Are they constructing 10-year strategic plans that include sustainable development or are they burying their heads in the sand wishing all these troubles will simply disappear. Can we innovate ourselves out of the deep hole? Though most scholars Marketplace inquired suggested that technology innovations were necessary not sufficient to avert our course of disaster, going green is still a good start for businesses with long-term vision. Carpet king Ray Anderson founded Interface Inc. more than 35 years ago with the novel concept of making modular carpet tiles. Anderson recounted to Marketplace the moment he now calls his “spear in the chest” epiphany - In the early 90s, his customers asked what Interface was doing for the environment. Anderson didn’t have an answer. “It was a moment of conviction. I was convicted, there and then, as a plunderer of the Earth,” he said. Interface is nearly halfway toward its goal of having zero environmental impact - basically, taking nothing from the Earth that isn’t renewable, and doing no harm to the environment in the process. For example: Instead of selling carpets, he will lease them to corporate customers. That guarantees Interface a steady stream of recyclable material once the carpets wear out. More importantly it introduces a revolutionary concept to manufacturing - corporations taking lifetime responsibility for their products. Sick of the ridiculous amount of packaging from manufacturers? Mark Constantine – the founder of Lush Cosmetics agrees, “you’ve got a polythene container. then inside you’ve got a box. And inside the box, you’ve a container with another container inside - and this is going to be an aerosol, isn’t it? So much packaging, it’s unbelievable.” In his global network of 490 shops, Mark Constantine has defied the commercial logic behind packaging – 70% of its soaps, shampoos and skin-care creams are solid and unwrapped. How about Wal-Mart? Even though generally the mention of Wal-Mart gets environmentalists’ blood boiling, we have to talk about Wal-Mart since it accounts for 10% of the total retail revenue in America. Wal-Mart receives 176 million customers a week. Wal-Mart claims that by pushing its 60,000 suppliers to cut their packaging by 5 percent, it’ll take 213,000 trucks off the roads, and save 67 million gallons of diesel fuel a year. The CEO Lee Scott promised his new stores would use 30% less energy than older ones and would aggressively reduce packaging. To the company, low energy consumption results in lower cost and less packaging means more shelf space for products and higher sales. Going green is not an altruistic endeavor, it’s about the bottom line. No matter, the end results may be the same. To read earlier posts in ourpre-Thanksgiving series: Before the holiday shopping mania sets in CindyW at Organicpicks If you enjoyed this entry, please subscribe to the Organic Picks Blog Copyright 2007 Organicpicks In the first part of our pre-Thanksgiving series, we talked about the super-sized American appetite for “stuff”, the resources this pulling-out-all-the-stops consumption has drained, and the trash it has produced. Are we doomed? No, not yet. Is there hope? Yes. Many people among us have woken up from the consumption-induced daze. They are doing their personal best to put a break on the train wreck. The consumer culture is a powerful force. But Marketplace spots some seeds of hope. The Mullens, a typical, middle-class family of four, live in the bedroom community of Daly City, California (no more than 20 miles from my home). They have sworn off buying new and joined the Compact - a group of people who vow not to buy anything new for an entire year, except basic necessities like food and toothpaste. So far, so good. “The lack of shopping as an entertainment option has had some definite upsides, too”. They have made more trips to the beach just a few blocks away and gone on more family hikes. Financially bills are paid sooner than they used to be and credit cards are in hibernation. Tess Vigeland from Marketplac, Sueann Ramella from an NPR local station, Andrew Lane, an army captain, Kelsey McDonald,a student, and many others, participated in a “trash challenge”. They had to carry their own trash around for 2 weeks. Seriously! Results? One of them switched cloth napkins after realizing how many paper towels she used. One decided to start composting after carrying rotten apple cores and oranges peels around. Most of them began to reexamine their daily habits and make changes. Sounds like a great idea to observe and change our throw away mentality. Most of us won’t go as far as the freegans – a group of devoted people who employ alternative strategies for living based on limited participation in the conventional economy and minimal consumption of resources. In other words they are dumpster divers who find tossed away food, clothes, fax machines, furniture, and just about anything under the sun. No, they are not homeless people, they have consciously chosen that lifestyle. Not surprisingly, the reason that they are able to do so is because there are so many throw-aways from stores, companies and individuals. While I don’t think freegan will be my lifestyle of choice, it does demonstrate to us how much excess we are generating from our mindless consumption. More and more people are waking up and questioning this very strange phenomenon called mass consumption. They are realizing that accumulating stuff does little for them in term of health, wealth, and ultimately happiness. Look around the blogsphere – bloggers everywhere are documenting how they have opted to live a simpler and more meaningful life with less-consumption, all without a book deal pending. Here are a few that we at Organicpicks visit often: Reduce plastic and trash in their lives Living car free Moms trying to do something about their children’s future To read earlier posts in this pre-Thanksgiving series: Before the holiday shopping mania sets in CindyW at Organicpicks If you enjoyed this entry, please subscribe to the Organic Picks Blog Copyright 2007 Organicpicks Continuing with “where the consumption starts”, we want to find out how long this level of consumption can last – 100 years? 200 years? 500 years? Even as we are overshooting (defined as: a population uses up resources faster than they can be replaced), we still have a long time to change our behavior. Right? Marketplace asked Jared Diamond, a professor at UCLA who is renowned for his landmark ecology work – Guns, Germs and Steel and Collapse amongst others. Diamond’s answer: “If we carried on as we are now, then I would expect that we will not have a First World lifestyle anywhere sometime between 30 and 50 years from now.” Wait, that is within my life time. Will we be the first generation to watch our lifestyle slip downhill rather than up? Will our kids be resentful because we have robbed their future? We have utilized 70% of the fresh water in the world, we have lost 50% of rich topsoil, we are running out of oil, we are taxing the forest resource, we are exhausting the fish population. What the heck, I might as well throw this in too: we are maxing out trash landfills. In Los Angeles County, half of the landfills are slated to close in the next 15 years. While the number of landfills has actually decreased in the United States and Canada, the rate of landfilling has drastically gone up in the last 10 years. Now we have megasize landfills (mega stores and mega landfills, coincidence?). Pennsylvania, Virginia and Michigan are the big 3 trash importers. Carleton Farms and Pine Tree Acres(Michigan) receive 20 trailer trucks of trash every hour. These two landfills alone will cover an equivalent area of 730 football fields under a 300-foot mountain of garbage by 2025. I did a little math. If you flatten the trash to 3 feet tall, you’d have to drive 60 miles to circle around the trash pile. When we run out of landfill space, what do we do? As civilized people, we certainly do not want to have the smelly mess in our backyard. Right, let’s export our trash to poorer countries in Africa and Asia. At a port outside Shanghai, China, Marketplace reporter opened a big orange shipping crate and “feasted” his eyes on 2,000 cubic feet of paper trash, i.e. slimy old boxes. And then, there was cat food, Bud Light, Huggies diapers, Coca-Cola, fabric softener, Diet Coke, antibacterial multi-surface cleaner - all this trash traveled 7000 miles from America. Now I get how it works – container ships stream into American ports and dump loads and loads and loads of consumer goods. We buy them and play with them for 12 days, then we throw them into the trash. Weeks later, they are shipped back to where they came from and get dumped there. Seriously, is this how global economy supposed to work? I went to business school a few years back, no one ever mentioned that. Hello, professor, how come you forgot to teach that economic cycle? Electronic gadgets are always staple holiday gifts. Who doesn’t want a new cell phone every year? An iPhone this year? How about a top of the line laptop? All good, except the 130 million cell phones and 50 million computers we toss away each year are not really resting in peace. A global non-profit organization Basel Action Network endorses an international agreement called the Basel Ban, which prohibits the export of any hazardous waste from the rich counties to the poor country. The United States is the only developed country, the only rich country, that has refused to sign this treaty. Marketplace reports that every hour, folks across the globe toss out about 9 million pounds of e-waste. “Even if you’re a good citizen and hand your old computer to a recycler, there’s a good chance he sells it to a broker, who puts it on a ship that smuggles it to Africa, or the Middle East, or China”. It’s time to go back to China again. In a small, poor village - the Chinese port city of Taizhou - workers disassemble old circuit boards in primitive ways. Some bang off the valuable parts -for instance, computer chips with gold inside. Others dip electronics in chemicals then dump the old chemical stew, which includes heavy metals like lead, into the soil. Maybe you think, well that’s just too bad. But it really does not affect me. Or does it? Remember the non-stop recalls of lead-contaminated children’s jewelries, trinkets, toys? They are all made in China, many in factories that are not far from those dumping grounds. Just a part of the global trade, I suppose. Seems to me this is a good time to ask ourselves some difficult questions. How long can we go on shopping like there is no tomorrow? Do we milk it as much as we can for the next 30 years? Is this becoming an ethical issue? Related entries: CindyW at Organicpicks If you enjoyed this entry, please subscribe to the Organic Picks Blog Copyright 2007 Organicpicks This Friday, a day after Thanksgiving, is traditionally the biggest shopping day of the year. And the month between Thanksgiving and Christmas account for nearly 25% of annual retail sales. In other words, the shopping mania is about to kick off. Before we all run out the door and lose ourselves in the shopping malls and big box stores, we at Organicpicks are doing a bit of listening. Marketplace on American Public Media has been running a 5-day series on CONSUME. We want to highlight some of the interesting stories and facts. Maybe they will re-orient our thinking a bit while we dig through racks and bins of stuff for our friends and family. It (most American consumption) all happens with hundreds of container ships pull into American ports every day, loaded with consumer goods produced globally. About 40% of those ships come “through the waters off Long Beach, California”. The Long Beach port complex, which is than 10,000 acres, will be expanded to 30,000 acres in the near future. Then “giant cranes lower containers down from the deck onto the beds of these waiting trucks”. And this happens 80,000 times a day nationwide. Daily these container ships spew dirty bunker fuel residuals and noxious sulfur into the air. From there thousands of trucks haul them to the other parts of the US while mercilessly pouring out diesel pollutants. 19% of the children in Long Beach have been diagnosed with asthma. The U.S. EPA has noted that pollution from diesel engines has shorted the lives of more than 20,000 American each year. In other words, these people die from consumption and its related infrastructure. Nobody “realistically expects the air at Long Beach to clear any time soon, because after all we all really really need the stuff in the container ships. CindyW at Organicpicks If you enjoyed this entry, please subscribe to the Organic Picks Blog Copyright 2007 Organicpicks
Are there toys even worth recommending?
Posted by CindyW in : Fresh Look , 1 comment so far
November 27, 2007
Barbera: Rubberwood, formaldehyde free medium density fibreboard (MDF) and bamboo. The puzzle pieces are rubberwood.
Barbera: Native to Brazil for hundreds of years, rubber trees were brought to Asia at the turn of the century because of the great demand for rubber they produced. Now they also grow on plantations in Southeast Asia. Rubber trees produce a sap that is used to make latex products. At the end of their latex-producing years (generally 25-30 years), the trees are harvested and new ones planted. The wood used to be burned, until people realized these wonderful trees had one more gift to give, that of their beautiful hardwood.
Barbera: We purchase our paints from one producer, a very respected company with an excellent reputation. They have an entire division devoted only to non-toxic paints for children’s toys. The paints are also tested by a third party testing agency - SGS International. When we receive the toys in America, we test the paints yet again.
Barbera: One of the most important ways we insure the safety of our toys (in addition to testing, which we do quite a lot of), is through the relationships we develop with the small, family-run factories that we partner with. We take quite a long time to research and develop a relationship with each factory before we begin ordering from them. The people we choose to work with have proven to us that they share our values and are trustworthy. To me, partnering with someone you trust is worth far more than all the tests in the world.Green Journal: Update on Anti-Idling Effort
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