Dear EarthTalk: I am looking for a small, modular home to put on a piece of vacation property. What’s available that could meet my needs and be easier on the environment than building a traditional house from scratch? First utilized by relief and aid missions around the world to house workers or refugees, self-contained modular [...]
Do you have any questions you need answers to? Feel free to send them in via my Contact Form and I will see what I can do to answer them for you in a future post. Thanks! On to the Reads… Thanks to grants from the South Coast Air Quality Management District, the Los Angeles [...]
This has all the makings of a story straight out of The Onion but sadly it’s for real. Seattle, Washington recently passed an ordinance that allowed residents to “opt-out” of receiving the Yellow Pages at their homes, something I wish would happen in every city and state in the country. Dex Media West, SuperMedia LLC [...]
The following is a guest post by Erin Ely of Ely Organics. You can read more from her on her website or follow her on Twitter. Every year October is Fair Trade month. I support Fair Trade and have known about the fair trade movement for many years.If you don’t know about Fair Trade here [...]
If I told you that our government mandated fuel efficiency standards hadn’t changed in 25 years, would you believe me? I don’t think I would have believed myself, to be honest. But if I had gone looking for the facts to back up that claim, I would have found it to be true; Corporate Average [...]
Dear EarthTalk: I work at a fast food place and I am appalled by the amount of unpurchased food we throw away. The boss says we can’t give it away for legal reasons. Where can I turn for help on this, so the food could instead go to people in need? Many restaurants, fast food [...]
I can almost guarantee that if you run for office in California and your entire platform is about how you can make the DMV easy to use, you will win. I spent almost 4 hours there on Wednesday, WITH an appointment, and the line was out and around the building. Seriously, if you want to [...]
