How I Learned to Stop Wasting and Love the Trash
Each year, Americans generate 389.5 million tons of municipal solid waste, 69 percent of which gets landfilled. As Edward Humes breaks it down in his eye-opening…
Read articleThe Dark Side of Consumerism: What Landfills and Nursing Homes Taught These Indian Villagers
Glamorized consumer culture has serious side effects—and to help people in remote Indian villages understand this, one filmmaker brought them to the West. Here’s what they…
Read articleThe end of the world as we know it: New York City to compost food scraps
If you thought bike sharing was going to be the definitive end of the world for New York’s old guard elite, wait till they get their…
Read articleThe Good Food Revolution Goes Vertical
This is a story about something that is right in this world. It’s a story of inspiration and real world solutions, a down to earth celebration…
Read articleTalking trash with PBS NewsHour
A few weeks ago my partner-in-muse Deb and I welcomed Spencer Michels and his crew from the PBS NewsHour to our house. To be more specific,…
Read articleGMO OMG WTF are we eating?!?!
So there’s a proposition — Proposition 37 — on the ballot in California that would make the state the first in the nation to require the…
Read articleSoil is the Solution, or the most important environmental story I’ll ever write
I first published this post as part of the the Climate Change SOS Blogathon on Daily Kos, featuring a lot of prominent thinkers in the climate…
Read articleWe’re planning the future here!
File this in the category of occupying-the-land-with-things-that-were-meant-to-be-on-it-in-the-first-place. As some of you may have heard, a couple of days ago a coalition of local residents, farmers, students,…
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