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Wal-Mart Turns Over a Green Leaf

Attention Wal-Mart Shoppers: Don’t feel So Guilty! Wal-Mart has taken a bad rap the last several years for being environmentally and socially unconsious. It represents all that has gone wrong with commercialism, right? Maybe not. Wal-mart might actually be a … Continue reading

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We PayPer Paper, Recycle and Save (The World)

  According to paperrecycles.org: “In 2006, a record 53.4 percent of the paper consumed in the U.S. (53.5 million tons) was recovered for recycling. Paper recovery now averages 360 pounds for each man, woman, and child in the United States. … Continue reading

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Fancy Facts about Recycling

While in college, I took a class called Quantitative Aspects of Global and Environmental Problems. In short, we learned how to assess the validity of numbers, statements, tables, maps, and graphs like those listed at a website on recycling facts … Continue reading

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Basket-Weaving 101

The three “R’s” of ecology (Recycle – Reduce – Reuse) all get together in this home project that I found in today’s news featured in The Star online (Malaysia). The article has you take the classifieds (or any newspaper section!), … Continue reading

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