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The Real Erin Brockovich Crusades Against Bottled Water
2:00PM 9/14/2011
Erin Brockovich -- the real one, not the movie version -- wants us to put down the bottle and turn on the tap. Bottled water is no safer and less regulated than tap water and way more expensive, she explained at the Toronto International Film Festival, where she's appearing in the new documentary Last Call at the Oasis.
Smartipants: Earth-friendly diapers for baby's booty on a budget
9:00AM 4/21/2010
As a young Army wife and mother with a second baby on the way, Jessica Burman remembers looking for coins in the couch cushions because, "With 25-more cents, I could go to WalMart and buy diapers," she said.
As every family knows, it's a cost that adds up. The Real Diaper Association calculates...
Turning dirty diapers into . . . bicycle helmets?
1:00PM 11/17/2009
Consider the disposable diaper. It's part engineering marvel, a mechanism that takes one of the most foul side effects of parenthood and absorbs it into a small, manageable, plastic-wrapped package. But it's also part environmental catastrophe.
The average baby makes nearly 6,000 diapers dirty...
Know the way to San Jose? You're not going to be able to follow a paper or plastic trail for much longer.
The city at the heart of Silicon Valley has become the latest in a string of large cities to ban retailers from giving out paper or plastic bags. Bags made of at least 40% recycled material...
Two headlines in my local paper today made me re-think the phrase, "silver lining." Because according to The Oregonian today, the bad economy has a green lining. Specifically, our landfills and our health can thank the falling GDP for better results. The health statistics, especially, surprised...
Gas too expensive? Biofuels will let you fill up with trash!
4:30PM 5/20/2008
When I was growing up in Northern Virginia, we didn't have garbage service or handy dumpsters; instead, we used to handle trash all by ourselves. Every week, we would load up the car, drive a mile or two, go down a long road, and dump our refuse into a big hole in the earth. While our neighborhood,...
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