Ed’s Green Blog

Excellent Documentary on America’s Food industry.

Some reusable Aluminum Bottles might have a BPA lined coating on the inside.

Buy a reusable Stainless Steel Bottle instead, like these from Klean Kanteen:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/climate-change/global-emissions.html

Set your water heater thermostat to about 120F or between low and medium. You won’t feel the difference in the shower, your stuff in the dishwasher will still be sterilized and you’ll save about $25 a year.

The U.S. is the #1 trash-producing country in the world at 1,609 pounds per person per year. This means that 5% of the world’s people generate 40% of the world’s waste.

* An aluminum can that is thrown away will still be a can 500 years from now!

* Recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to run a TV for three hours — or the equivalent of a half a gallon of gasoline.

* To produce each week’s Sunday newspapers, 500,000 trees must be cut down.

* If every American recycled just one-tenth of their newspapers, we would save about 25,000,000 trees a year.

* Each ton (2000 pounds) of recycled paper can save 17 trees, 380 gallons of oil, three cubic yards of landfill space, 4000 kilowatts of energy, and 7000 gallons of water. This represents a 64% energy savings, a 58% water savings, and 60 pounds less of air pollution!

* Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year!

* The energy saved from recycling one glass bottle can run a 100-watt light bulb for four hours. It also causes 20% less air pollution and 50% less water pollution than when a new bottle is made from raw materials.

* A modern glass bottle would take 4000 years or more to decompose — and even longer if it’s in the landfill.

Please recycle!

Set up bins for paper, newspaper, glossy magazines & junk mail, cardboard, glass bottles, aluminum cans, batteries, light bulbs, old electronic equipment.

 Please avoid throwing this stuff away!

Please fight the temptation of out of sight, out of mind!

Every little discarded thing adds to an already enormous pile!

If you have to throw something away, make sure its biodegradable!

Trials by companies including Panasonic and Toyota are underway at 3,000 homes throughout Japan, to bring mini hydrogen power plants into backyards that will provide heat and power while emitting a fraction of the carbon dioxide of normal energy sources by using a hydrogen fuel cell to convert natural gas into electricity. It’s called a fuel cell co-generation system.  You  can be read about it here:

http://www.physorg.com/news127483336.html

 Do some spring cleaning and gather up all your E-waste and take it to one of these drop-off zones:

Recycling March 28 to April 11, 2009

County Park swimming pool parking lot areas:

North, South, Boyce, Settlers, and Round Hill Parks (Duck Pond Parking Lot).

Computers Monitors    Typewriters      Radios   Stereos    CD Players   Cell Phones Fax Machines   Copiers    Projectors    VCRs    CB Radios   Camcorders    Cameras DVD Players   Plotters   Circuit Boards    Radios   All Batteries    Cables/Wiring Electric pianos Game Consoles   Generators   Electric Lawnmowers    Video   Cameras Telephones   Speakers    Electric Wheelchairs   Printers   PDAs   Microwaves
Computer Software    Cell Phones

Hours for drop off are as follows:

10am-7pm weekdays        10am-5pm weekends

We will also have a SMALL container in our parking lot on the North Shore

Any questions please call Gretchen at 412-321-4625 ext 248
Please, nothing with a heating element or freon.