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Yesterday officially concluded the last day of summer, but you wouldn't know it with our 80 degree weather in Seattle. While my garden produced quite a bit of food this year, the growing season for some vegetables can be sometimes year round. This past weekend I pulled my lettuce that went to seed and a couple of dead tomato plants to make room for a few vegetable starts. Kale, cauliflower ...{ 1 comment }
From the company, Omlet UK, that brought the world The Eglu (portable chicken coop), comes the Beehaus . We all know the importance of bees play in our everyday lives- pollination of crops, honey, etc. The Beehaus (only available in the UK) comes complete with everything you need to keep bees in your backyard or in your urban sanctuary roof top deck. While I commend Omlet on their great ideas ...{ 0 comments }
At Sustainable Group , we're passionate about great ideas that inspire change. When we heard about MilkMuny Wallets , we wanted to spread the good word about what this Portland, OR company is doing with recycled waste. While paperboard milk cartons are excepted at many recycling facilities around the country, it's tough to recycle them because of their wax coating. In fact, there ...{ 0 comments }
In 2007, 1.4 billion pounds of PET (polyethylene) plastic were recycled curbside. PET is the basis for a lot of product packaging including water/soda bottles, clam shell packaging, etc. With the recent, yet unregulated, shift of products to be "more green", some plastics manufacturers have started putting additives into plastics to help them break down quicker (presuming the will end up in ...{ 1 comment }
We all know our recycling goes in that Big Green Bin, but I wanted to find out where our recyclables ended up. Today, I had the opportunity to tour Waste Management's sorting facility in Woodinville, Washington.
I arrived at the recycling facility 1pm sharp thinking I would be intermingling with a group of elementary school students. To my amazement, I was the only one on the tour! ...{ 0 comments }
Armed with several used plastic shopping bags and leftover straws, Seattle artist Brad Winchester has turned trash into shelter. Each bag was rescued from a landfill and has been hand cut and sewn together with fishing line. Running wire through each straw gives the tent rigidity and structure. I'm not sure Brad's prototype is ready testing on the peaks of Mount Rainier, but it's definitely ...{ 1 comment }
Next time your stopping by your local big box office supply store, take a good smell when you walk in the door. Sniff, sniff, sniff...Ahhhhhhh....That wonderful chemical smell is the off-gassing of PVC/Vinyl. Ok, maybe it doesn't smell "as bad" as it did a few years ago. Manufactures of three ring vinyl binders and other petroleum derived products have found alternative plastics that don't off-gas ...{ 2 comments }
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