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.

Because statistics tell you that is was just a matter of time until we had a catastrophic spill in the Gulf. There are thousands and thousands of oil and gas wells in the Gulf, each one with a very small probability of failing. BP and Deepwater Horizon drew the short straw.

It’s particularly disheartening to hear the blame being piled on BP. As if, yeah, BP would cut...

Company C in Concord, NH makes and sells high-quality bedding, furniture, and fabrics. Its products are made in more than 20 countries and sold to customers in twice that many.

Company C’s warehouse is a buzz-saw. Trailers and containers from U.S. and international manufacturing plants are unloaded daily. Merchandise is unpacked, racked, unracked, and repacked. Trailers and less-than-truckload carriers are loaded and dispatched.

Eighteen months ago Company C’s waste...

For over 100 years into the 1970s the H.W. Carter overall factory was a cornerstone of the community in Lebanon, NH. Sitting just off the town green, it was also a centerpiece of the landscape.
But as in thousands of other communities, times changed, the Carter factory closed, and the structure devolved into an eyesore. In the mid-90s part of the building was leased by the regional Alliance for the Visual Arts. AVA attracted a number of artists to the building’s low rent space, and the...

Some ancients will remember Evel Knievel and the Snake River Canyon. Evel tried to jump the canyon and ended up in the drink. There was no way across.

There's a Snake River Canyon in electronics recycling. On one side are deals to buy old computer and monitors or take them away for free. On the other side are recyclers who charge to recycle old electronic equipment. The gap between the two sides starts at about twenty-five cents a pound and gets wider from there. And there's...