Top Comments: Recycling Plastics
In the modern world, plastics are a problem. They are everywhere in consumer goods, both as the goods themselves, and as packaging. They are indestructible for the most part, and they are a large...
View ArticleRoad side litter pick up
Formerly, the early morning part of our daily routine included Alison walking a repeated circular route of the yard and me walking in the field to wherever our cows were. Late afternoons we would walk...
View ArticleShould Non-Biodegrading Plastics Be Banned?
About a year or two ago, I sparked up the curiosity to look into the existence or possibilities for biodegradable plastics -- and to my surprise there are numerous versions.So my question is this: why...
View ArticleThe Daily Bucket - Balloons: What Goes Up Must Come Down
My forestry field work gives me the opportunity to see land that is off the beaten path, away from the bustling cities, and sometimes far removed from public roads. Sometimes I can work all day without...
View ArticleTo the litterbug tossing liter in front of my house- Thank you
Thank you for helping to explain to my kids there are jerks in this world who think nothing of others. Thank you for helping me to instill the value of cleaning up the neighborhood while we don...
View ArticleCleaning up the sidewalks, greenways for new school board campaign literature
One way we are getting to know Minneapolis even better, to meet people and talk about the campaign is by taking long walks through the neighborhoods closest to where we live in the Whittier...
View ArticleTired
If Mid-City is the "Heart of New Orleans," then the heart of Mid-City is Bayou St. John.
View ArticleLos Angeles bans plastic bags. Next up: California?
The City of Los Angeles took a big step today in becoming the largest city in the nation to ban single-use plastic bags at grocery stores. The City Council voted 13-1 to phase out the bags. The bags...
View ArticleCentral Casting? Send up an Elderly Indian... The Return of the Litterbug
At first I thought maybe it was just my neighborhood. I've lived here for 7 years now, it's sort of a mixed neighborhood in terms of housing patterns, but the problem seems to just keep getting...
View Articlethankfully, endorphins act as blinders
I went for a nice bike ride today, a mellow 20 miles through NYC. As I rode I thought of litter. Litter and exhaust. Litter, exhaust and poop.
View ArticleThe Pornography of Broken Glass
A current TV commercial for Mercedes Benz ("Trip to the Museum") shows it speeding (yeehaw!), then crashing through a museum window in an orgasmic shower of glass, with a 180-degree skid finale....
View ArticleEcoNoticiario # 7: Irrigators, "hippies", bicyclists, litterers, oh, my!
In EcoNoticiario #7 we have (Spain) feuding between irrigators and "hippies" over water, (Mexico) a report of a possible new eruption of the Chaitén volcano in Chilean Patagonia, (Costa Rica) conflict...
View ArticlePaper or Plastic? Just say no
Cross Posted atEarth Friendly Shopping. I know that this isn’t a new subject, and I have written about it before, but I think it deserves repeating, and recent events brought it back to the top of my...
View ArticleCleaning up the campaign trail
Today our grassroots effort to clean up the roadways of Alabama paid off. We made the front page of the Birmingham News! http://www.al.com/... EDIT: Whoops! Forgot to add the link to our site. Litter...
View ArticleTop Ten Good News Stories of the Week (May 20-26)
The third weekly Top 10 good news list was delayed because of link-problems we were having on our site. . . Here it is a few days late, produced especially for my political activist-friends. Top Ten...
View ArticleCalling All AL, GA, FL, MS, and TN Friends!
I need a tiny bit of your time. You see, I'm starting a movement to get rid of political campaign signs on public property. We all have the right to our own sign in our yard, but who ever said it was...
View ArticleLitterOnAStick - Cleaning up the mess the politicians make.
Hello Fellow Kossaks! We're building a site to help connect concerned citizens who are interested in ending the practice of political campaigns using illegally placed corrugated plastic signs to...
View ArticleEnvironmentalists needed - Rant for a cause.
Please? Hi! I need your help. I just picked a fight. You see - in Alabama, it's illegal to put campaign signs on the state right of way. So imagine my surprise (not!) when republicans running for our...
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