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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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Earth Day 2018
EARTH DAY 2018 The State of the Planet and What You Can Do to Help Fix It So here we are again, April 22, Earth Day, the one day a year that belongs to the “Mother of us all,” Senator Gaylord … Continue reading
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Tagged 5 facts about environmental policy, access to clean water, Brookings Institute, clean air, clean air act, clean water, clean water act, Earth Day, Environmental Protection Agency, Gaylord Nelson, going extinct, Make this Earth Day count, Richard Nixon, UN, UN S, UN Sustainable Development Goals, water crisis, World Health Organization
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Your Assimilative Capacity Has Been Reached
[ Posted first on the Global Water Alliance‘s “Blogs and Utterings” section of which yours truly is the primary contributor. Your Assimilative Capacity Has Been Reached Given the rains in California last month, resulting in the evacuation of some … Continue reading
World Toilet Day
World Toilet Day I think that if Francois Auguste Rene Rodin (1840 – 1917) knew that one of his most famous sculptures, “The Thinker” had become the symbol of World Toilet Day, a day established to raise awareness of the … Continue reading
Posted in access to sanitation, Auguste Rodin, Give 1 in 3 a place to pee, sanitation and hygiene, The Thinker, WASH, world toilet day
Tagged 1 in 3, access to sanitation, Auguste Rodin, clean water, modern flush toilet, place to pee, sanitation and hygiene, Sir John Harrington, Thomas Crapper, water, water poor, world toilet day
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Thirsty Burger
Thirsty Burger Consider the cow. It takes one gallon — 3.6 liters — per 100 pounds of body weight to water a cow and two gallons when it is hot outside. If Bessy is lactating, you need to double those … Continue reading
Water Wars
Water Wars How’s this? In the future we will fight wars for water. Sound plausible or more like SciFi? Probably no one really thought we’d fight a war for oil, but then Iraq happened and that strange … Continue reading
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