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Start the Wave
I once asked my now-wife if she had ever had a recycling bin. She lived in London at the time, and they had larger bins, but she never really recycled because, “I never really had the room for another bin.” Living in such a populous city, her space was limited, and recycling was the last thing on her mind when it came to her very small kitchen. While I lived in Midwest, recycling was second nature to my family when the opportunity presented itself in the form of large blue bins, and an elimination of the city’s imposed trash bill. We gathered up our beer cans and old newspapers and filled it to the brim with cardboard boxes. “We’re helping the planet,” my dad would tell me. But what else could we do if others were not able?
By Shelli Armstrong5 years ago in Earth
5 Common Waste Disposal Methods
Australians generate more than 74 million tonnes of rubbish every year in rubbish, broken appliances, green waste, industrial rubbish, and medical waste. With that figure increasing over the years, it’s no wonder that our junk is costing a huge sum of our economy.
By Rigette Saycon5 years ago in Earth
My Monthly Way To Give Back
Always having great compassions for the Wildlife, I signed up to be a member of the Wildlife Collections Society. Two months ago I started out with a purchase of three bracelets with Polar Bears on them. Each has a tracker. We adopt and between myself and our grandchildren, using our computers we can track where our Polar Bear is and knowing how they are doing.
By Cathy Deslippe5 years ago in Earth
When I learned to love the Desert
When I was a child, I was always told that the desert was ugly, dry, dusty…there was no beauty to be found in the desert. The only way I ever saw it was from the car as we drove through the empty landscape, so I believed the words I was told.
By Vicki Goodman5 years ago in Earth
Global Economic Shift
In the next decade the emerging energy sources that will power the third industrial revolution will transform the global economy. In doing so they will greatly reduce the carbon emissions that are having disastrous consequences to every economy around the world. The transformation from diesel and gas to all electric automobiles has already taken a giant step toward revolutionizing transportation across the globe.
By Dr. Williams5 years ago in Earth
Amazon, Eat Yer Heart Out
BUY & CONSUME & SELL & EARN & O' is it not so exhausting to repeat this cycle near-endlessly, and without break? Just imagine how warehouse workers feel. But so long as we know work, and value is created, and labor is oppressed, something something, Karl Marx might not have been as wrong as ol' Papa told me.
By Leonard Coseive5 years ago in Earth
Zero-Waste For the Win
I stood nervously at the front of a packed auditorium looking out at a sea of cotton-white hair while shining spectacles reflected florescent lighting back at me. I gently placed each prop on the table in front of me, feeling as though I was setting up for a strange show-and-tell to a hundred grandparents. in essence, I was.
By Christina Hunter5 years ago in Earth
Recycling is Just the Start
Recycling is just an illusion; it’s a story we’ve been told to make us feel better about buying plastic water bottles and aluminum pop cans. It’s a story that’s been shoved down our throats since preschool, and yet, it doesn’t live up to the promises it makes. And the problem is that no one is asking what recycling truly is, if its supporting the health of the Earth, or even what happens to those bottles and cans once they disappear from our bins.
By Maeple Fourest5 years ago in Earth
Here's why these 7 animals and insects are important to our ecosystem
A lot of people are quite ignorant of the true importance of animals and insects and what roles they play. We see a wild animal and we call it our spirit animal, and we might know a few cool facts about it, but do we actually know why they are significant? Why they shouldn't be harmed or become close to endangered?
By Adrianna Anastasiades 5 years ago in Earth
