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Corporate Conscience – We Are the World Blogfest
Corporate America joins the fight in reducing plastic ocean waste. If you’ve been following this blog for even a little bit of time, you know I consider plastic, especially single-use plastics, one of the more detrimental products of modern life. … Continue reading
Posted in Uncategorized
Tagged beer, blog, clean water, Coca Cola, microplastics, plastic recycling, plastics, Sustainability, The Ocean Cleanup
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Plastic Bank
[ PLASTIC BANK Okay, since this is supposed to be a feel-good blog post, I’m not going to bury you in plastic statistics the way we are ourselves being buried in the real thing, but I will shed a dash … Continue reading
Posted in plastics, recycling, Uncategorized
Tagged #WATWB, access to clean water, clean water, entrepreneurs, microplastics, plastics, Plastics Bank, plastics recycling
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Blue Moon
[photo courtesy NASA] Blue Moon Maybe the Man in the Moon has never been thirsty, but if he were, things are about to get better for him. According to NASA, there is water, not only on the dark side … Continue reading
PFAS Traps – #WATWB
#WATWB — Self Assembling PFAS Traps In a world where the news gets worse every day, where words like quarantining and self-isolating have become part of our everyday jargon, and where environmental degradation seems to be the least of our … Continue reading
Posted in clean water, Uncategorized
Tagged #WATWB, chemicals, clean water, contamination, health effects, PFAS, PFAS traps
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Rounded Up, But Definitely Not Ready
Rounded Up, But Definitely Not Ready The first verdict came in August 2018 when a San Francisco jury told Monsanto that it had to pay $289 million in damages to a Dewayne Johnson who developed non-Hodgkins lymphoma after years … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, air, biocides, ecosystems, endocrine disruptor, environment, environmental conservation, environmental effects, food, Glyphosate, herbicides, organic farming, pesticides, Sustainability, Uncategorized, water, water purification
Tagged Bayer Science Corp, clean air, clean water, conservation, Glyphosate, hericides, lawsuits, Monsanto, organic farming, pesticides, Roundup, roundup ready
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EEEWW, Are You Going to Eat That?
[photo of a vending machine I spotted at the LCSWMA trash tour — best vending machine ever!] EEEWW, Are You Going to Eat That? We have some refrigerator food rules in our house: two days for fish, three for cooked … Continue reading
Posted in electricity, Uncategorized, waste, waste as a resource, waste disposal facility
Tagged #AtoZ, #atozchallenge, are you going to eat that?, clean air, clean water, CO2, Day 5, eeeww, electricity, environmental action plan, food waste, LCSWMA, NO2, repurposing, SO2, waste, waste as a resource, waste disposal facility
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World Water Day
WORLD WATER DAY Today, March 22, is World Water Day. [photo by Stacey Lazos] Not to be a downer, but water statistics suck. By 2050 we will have more plastic in the ocean than fish which is going to be … Continue reading
Posted in agriculture, aquaponics, insecticides, Uncategorized, WASH, water, water conservation, water security
Tagged agriculture, aquaponics, clean water, plastics, pure water, WASH, water, water conservation, water rights, water security
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When Fish Poop Feeds the World
When Fish Poop Feeds the World If you or your kids have ever won a goldfish at a carnival, chances are you took it home and stuck it in a glass bowl where it swam happily for years. We had … Continue reading
Posted in aquaponics, ecosystems, farmed fish, fertilizers, fish, organic vegetables, overpopulation, science, Sustainability, Sustainable Living, water, water conservation
Tagged aquaponics, clean water, ecosystems, farmed fish, fertilizers, fish, fish poop, gofundme, goldfish, grow light, herbs, nutrients, overpopulation, pesticides, save the fishies, Sustainability, toxic chemicals, vegetables, water conservation, when fish poop feeds the world
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#WATWB – How to Reduce Your Plastic Footprint
#WATWB – How to Reduce Your Plastic Footprint I don’t really remember ever taking a walk along a beach that was littered with plastic. It could be a case of being in the right place at the right time, or … Continue reading
WATWB – GI
WATWB – GI (Green Infrastructure) Do not despair our present difficulties, but believe always in the promise and greatness of America because nothing is inevitable here. Americans never quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We make history. … Continue reading
Posted in access to water, clean water, environment, environmental conservation, flooding, green infrastructure, sustainable cities
Tagged #WATWB, access to clean water, blog hop, clean water, climate change, Edmonston, environment, environmental conservation, flooding, GI, green infrastructure, Maryland, sustainable cities
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