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Turning Reclaimed Wood Into Design Studio Quality Furnishings: Artas Designs
Maine’s Artas Designs takes used materials like reclaimed wood, and turns them into design studio quality furnishings for a variety of commercial clients.
Five Social Media Campaigns That Raise Awareness About Food Waste
These five social media campaigns, complete with hashtags, focus on building awareness of food waste, hunger, & ideas for reusing edible leftovers.
Composting vs. Waste-to-Energy: The Politics Of Green Waste
What is the best way to deal with green waste? Burning? Composting? Recycling? May be the best answer is creating less of it?
Compost… or Else! Mandatory Composting in Massachusetts & Seattle
Massachusetts & Seattle will join the handful of municipalities & states requiring composting to save landfill space & reduce methane emissions.
Top Five US Cities for Urban Homesteading
Where do urban homesteaders live? Where are they gathering? Using the Gallup Wellbeing Index as a jumping off point, here are the top five cities for happy homesteading.
Permaculture Garden at UMass Documented on Video
Members of the community at the University of Massachusetts – Amherst took a step beyond the normal organic kitchen garden on campus, and created (and filmed) a permaculture garden.
Pedal-Powered Recycling and Trash Pick-Up
Recycling does create energy savings overall, but if you watch those big trucks rolling through your neighborhood on pick-up day, you probably realize that there may be even more efficient [ … ]
Green Government 2.0: State Blogs on Environmental Issues
How do elected officials attempt to ensure transparency these days (or, at least, the appearance of transparency)? By posting information online… we saw yet another example of this just in [ … ]
New Site Finds Wind Energy Gold
[social_buttons]There’s gold in them thar hills! But to mine it you first must find it, and a revamped website now provides an extremely easy way to do just that. While [ … ]
Favorable Breezes for Cape Wind
Someday, the Cape Wind story will become a major Hollywood blockbuster. Or at least a two-part television miniseries starring Ed Begley Jr. On the Discovery Channel. The effort to build [ … ]
Planning Underway for Boston GreenFest
Mark the date. Planners and volunteers met yesterday to brainstorm for this year’s annual Boston GreenFest, a celebration and education of all things environmental. The fair at City Hall Plaza, [ … ]
The Twelve Days of sustainablog: Bees, Stimulus Checks, and Biodynamic Wine
2008 was a banner year for sustainablog, and we want to end it as strongly as we started. So, for the next twelve days, I’ll take a look back at [ … ]