Red tape often prevents good green initiatives from being enacted into law, but smack dab in the middle states of this country there is a group, the Environmental Law and Policy Center, that is actually getting something done!

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by Mac Bartine

There's no doubt about it: if you're a patriot, you should feel great about recycling.

Think about it. Recycling saves trillions of kilowatts of energy every year. It conserves our natural resources. It makes our country's air, water and soil cleaner by limiting pollution, and it stimulates our economy by creating new jobs...

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An eco-system so spectacular that it is attracting attention from around the world has developed in a most unexpected place: in the underwater supports of an abandoned oil rig in the Gulf of Mexico…and a host of organizations are working to reconsider the government’s order to blast it into smithereens...

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 by Brenton Johnson

Brenton Johnson represents a new breed of young, organic farmers whose philosophy is to live in harmony with the land and bring back a sustainable way of life. Naturally (no pun intended), he advocates buying local food. In between tending his turnips and perusing the potatoes, Brenton penned this wise, authoritative list of ten reasons to buy local food. This isn't just about helping the local farmer, it's about preserving our planet -- and eatin' better, too!...

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by Melinda Burns

“P” is for phosphorus, the stuff of life, and “p” is for “peak phosphorus” by 2030, ecologists say, unless — presto! — pee can be turned into gold through modern-day alchemy.

Unremarked and unregulated by the United Nations and other high-level assemblies, the world’s supply of phosphate rock, the dominant source of phosphorus for fertilizer, is being rapidly — and wastefully — drawn down. By most estimates, the best deposits will be gone in 50 to 100 years...

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by Harry G. Psaros

If you enter the word ‘Wheatgrass’ into a search engine, you’ll be astonish to discover over 4 million results. Why so much interest in the seven-day sprouted grass from wheat berries? The answer is a simple one. Wheatgrass is the rock star of green foods. It has immeasurable health benefits...

Editor's Note: I always knew that wheatgrass was something that I should have but I never really knew all the benefits! Thanks Harry for making it so obvious that I need to incorporate this into my lifestyle.

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There is an entire nation that has completely dropped conventional electricity production and moved to solar…OK, it's not Germany or China or Brazil…it's the tiny, isolated nation north of Samoa called Tokelau, where the population is only 1,411. Isolated as they are, they've got good reason to change: shipping-in diesel fuel to make electricity is expensive, and sunshine is free!

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Thousands of species are threatened by the spread of human civilization, but the conservation group Wildways Network is envisioning a system of corridors to link the remaining wild areas...and using state-of-the-art software packages to do it.

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The mirrors layout in the PS10 Concentrated Solar Power plant could have been laid our more efficiently, and scientists found the secret to a more efficient layout had already been worked out by none other than...Mother Nature!

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by Wendy Gabriel

GREEN TIP: Plastic is generally toxic to produce, toxic to use, and toxic to dispose of. Learn how you can make safer choices.

Plastic products are everywhere. More and more we are discovering there are health risks that make these convenient products not so desirable. Plastics are releasing harmful chemicals into our air, foods, and drinks...

Editor's Note from Cara Ryan: Wendy's article is well researched and presented in a user friendly way.

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Here's a bulletin: building materials account for a big 40% of the waste in the U.S....so the emphasis on demolition of our aging structures is shifting to deconstruction, where doors, windows, sinks, hardwood floors (the list goes on and on) are being rescued, sold at terrific prices, and reused...

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by Amber Woods

If you've had a conversation with me in the past last six months, or at least since I became a homeowner, then you probably know I'm on a serious mission to uncover sustainable and renewable energy options for the City of Havre de Grace (and my own home)...

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