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Our Weekend at Blue Rock Station Learning Natural Construction Using Straw Bales with Tire Foundation If you've ever wanted to get away from it all, get back to basics & simple living...I highly recommend taking part in a build at Blue Rock Station in Philo, Ohio. Green Living & Building doesn't get any greener than this! Check out the greenhouse built of 2ltr soda bottles & more! View our photo album.
Give & Take Day in Ross Twp, PA Close the Loop recently organized the 1st Give & Take Day in Monroe County, PA. It’s a great opportunity for people to donate unwanted items that are taking up room in the home and garage, and reduce disposing of usable items to a landfill, all free of charge! Close the Loop is pleased to share with any township or organization the toolkit to successfully run one of these events in your hometown, please contact us! View photos & an update on the event, 3,200 pounds of usable goods stayed in the community and are being put to good use, not filling up a landfill. Read more.
Gassing Up With Garbage After years of false starts, a new industry selling motor fuel made from waste is getting a big push in the United States, with the first commercial sales possible within months. Many companies have announced plans to build plants that would take in material like wood chips, garbage or crop waste and turn out motor fuels. About 28 small plants are in advanced planning, under construction or, in a handful of cases, already up and running in test mode. Read more.
The Green Bible Printed on recycled paper, using soy-based ink with a cotton/linen cover ~ all the passages that speak about the environment are in green ink. The Green Bible will equip and encourage people to see God's vision for creation and help them engage in the work of healing and sustaining it. With over 1,000 references to the earth in the Bible, compared to 490 references to heaven and 530 references to love, the Bible carries a powerful message for the earth. View the video, visit their website. |
In this issue:
· Natural Construction
· Give & Take Day
· Gassing Up with Garbage
· The Green Bible
· Real Simple Recycling
· Recycling pays for Honeymoon Trip
· Videos: Human Car, Frugal Fashion, Recycle Woman
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Real Simple Recycling A-Z
Each water bottle you recycle may seem like a drop in the bucket, but don’t undervalue your efforts. America is recycling nearly 33 % of its waste – almost twice as much as 15 years ago. But sometimes it can be tough to tell what can go in the bin, what can’t and what your recycling center does and does not accept. Check out A to Z guide to recycling.
The Wat Pa Maha Chedio Kaew temple has found a way to bottle-up Nirvana, literally. The temple, which sits in Thaisland’s Sisaket province, roughly 370 miles northeast of Bangkok is made of more than a million recycled glass bottles. Read more. |
Videos:
Human Car ~ See how the "HumanCar" hits 60 mph on pure elbow grease and zero fossil fuel. View the CNN video.
Frugal Fashion
Queen Elizabeth II wears a recycled dress to save money during the credit crisis. View the video.
Recycle Woman
In Suffolk, England, a woman demonstrates how to dramatically minimize generating garbage, and maximizing recycling through compost. View the video. |
Couple recycle tons of litter for honeymoon
A couple spent three months trawling the streets for litter so they could recycle it and turn it into air miles to pay for their honeymoon flight. John and Ann Till, collected 60,000 items in their daily and often nightly quest for cans, bottles and plastic containers. Read more. |
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