This morning, I found myself at Wal-Mart picking up a few items for the family. The list included laundry detergent, vitamins, and fresh fruit. While cruising through the produce section, I noticed that there was a choice between organic and regular bananas, both for the same price of $.52 per pound. I grabbed two bags of organics and headed to the checkout aisle.

The lady ringing up my purchases slid the bag of organic bananas across her scanner and said, “These bananas come in...

I do some blogging for my company, All Green Electronics Recycling. I post about electronics recycling, the company, and the environment in general.

Today I came across a poll that claimed that Americans were less green in 2010 than in 2009. Why is this the case? And more importantly, why would anyone claim to not care about the future of the planet?

You can check out my blog post here, if you'd like.

The thing I like best is when there's a hurricane and a hurricane expert comes on TV and says "It's releasing as much power as fifty Hiroshima atom bombs going off every minute." Or else this: "It's producing 200 times, as much energy as all of the electric generating plants in the world."
Nothing points out better the absurdities in discussion of America's energy future. Because last time I looked, a hurricane is solar energy.

Solar energy on the scale of...

This is a story for everyone who says that recycling and reuse cost too much and aren’t worth the effort, and for everyone who has to deal with those folks.
Newton is a suburban city, population about 85,000, less than ten miles from downtown Boston. When the City opened a new high school in August 2010, it reused and donated locally as much furniture as possible from the old school, but was still left with more than 4,000 items of surplus furniture and equipment that needed to go away. Most...

A lot of us are recycling more than ever before but is this recycling craze encouraging us to consume more instead of reducing or reusing?

We've all heard the 3Rs slogan "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle" and most are recycling like never before. Let’s face it, those who are “Aware” feel good about dropping that coffee cup or that water bottle in a recycle bin rather than the trash can. It's just the right thing to do.

The point of recycling has to do with understanding...