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'The Story of Stuff' Another reason to procrastinate about my Christmas shopping	Katy Balatero	11 Dec 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, consumerism, green living, recycling, shopping, waste (all these topics)

Buzz Kill On Jell-O shots	Umbra Fisk	05 Dec 2007	Ask Umbra
Greetings, A very important discussion among my colleagues this week: is it better to purchase reusable, petroleum-based products (plastic) or to use paper disposables? Specifically, we're talking about Jell-O shot cups. A recent (and brilliant) invention is this little plastic shot cup with a twistable ring inside. Ostensibly, a flick of the wrist will free even the most stubborn Jell-O shot and allow hours of fun. Some of my friends have argu ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, food, funnies, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Shameless self-promotion RED positioned to fund $1.5 billion of recycled energy projects	Sean Casten	16 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: business, energy, energy efficiency, recycling, shameless self-promotion (all these topics)

Smolder and Wiser On fireplace ashes	Umbra Fisk	12 Nov 2007	Ask Umbra
Dear Umbra, What should we do with ashes from the fireplace? I've heard that they're great for the garden and I've heard that they may not be so good for the garden. Are they a good replacement for salt on slippery sidewalks? Janet Allen Syracuse, N.Y. Dearest Janet, Why not make some soap? Here come the holidays, after all. All you'd have to do is run water over the ashes to make potash, boil the potash down into lye, render your o ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling, waste (all these topics)

It's Simple, Simon Simon & Schuster joins the ranks of greener publishers		08 Nov 2007	News
Posted at 2:33 PM on 08 Nov 2007 Random House has done it. Scholastic has done it. Even a publisher of the Bible is going green. So hey, Simon & Schuster: welcome aboard! The publisher, which counts such notables as Stephen King and Ursula Hegi among its authors, has committed to increasing its recycled-paper content from the current 10 percent to 25 percent or more by 2012. It will also buy at least 10 percent of ...
Topics: greening biz operations, news, rainforests, recycling (all these topics)

Jeepers, Creepers, How'd Ya Get Rid of Those Sneakers? How to recycle athletic shoes, iPods, mattresses, and other oddities		06 Nov 2007	Grist Feature
Grist's Katharine Wroth and Chip Giller appeared on NBC's Today show on Tuesday, Nov. 6, telling Meredith Vieira how to recycle some of the odd and awkward items that you can't put out in your curbside bin. Athletic Shoes Got a pair (or a pile) of old sneakers that are too gross and grotty to give to charity? Nike will recycle any brand of athletic shoe through ...
Topics: advice, green living, recycling (all these topics)

More Grist love on the 'Today' show 7 items you didn't know you could recycle	Katy Balatero	06 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: recycling, shameless self-promotion, TV, waste (all these topics)

McKibben on waste-heat recovery A very promising climate change solution with an image problem	Erik Hoffner	01 Nov 2007	Gristmill

Topics: recycling, energy, business, energy efficiency, tech, climate, Bill McKibben (all these topics)

Bright Lights, Big Shiny IBM announces new process to reuse, recycle silicon wafers for solar panels		31 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 5:45 AM on 31 Oct 2007 Tech giant IBM announced it has developed a simple new process to recycle the silicon wafers it uses in many of its products. The process extends the silicon wafers' useful life, and when that life is finally over, the wafers can then be sold to make solar panels. IBM calculates that if all of the 3 million wafers discarded each year worldwide by the tech industr ...
Topics: business, news, recycling, solar voltaic power (all these topics)

Poll: Americans deeply, perhaps irredeemably, confused	David Roberts	26 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: climate, climate change mitigation, recycling (all these topics)

Mmm ... salt ... Kosher salt from recycled batteries	Kristina & Jason Makansi	25 Oct 2007	Gristmill

Topics: innovation, recycling (all these topics)

Franti Up Reggae artist Michael Franti lets loose on inspiring social change	Sarah van Schagen	12 Oct 2007	Grist Feature
Michael Franti. Photo: anti.com/Megan Gentile "Everyone deserves music, sweet music," Michael Franti sings in the title track from a 2003 album. The man behind Michael Franti & Spearhead -- a band that blends hip-hop with jazz, folk, and funk music -- also believes that everyone deserves health care, social justice, and a sustainable planet. And he makes sure you know it -- ...
Topics: green living, music, recycling (all these topics)

Fear to Tread Alt-fuel industry recycles rubber tires, contributes to air pollution		18 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 12:12 PM on 18 Sep 2007 A decade-old industry that recycles old rubber tires into fuel is chipping away at the stockpile of 1 billion retired tires in the U.S. But the laudable recycling effort is balanced by a negative impact on air pollution, as the U.S. EPA's clean-air regulations for burning solid waste include a loophole loosening requirements for facilities that "recover energy." Now a r ...
Topics: air pollution, litigation, news, politics, recycling, regulation, US EPA (all these topics)

There's the Tub On reusing bath water	Umbra Fisk	10 Sep 2007	Ask Umbra
Hi Umbra, My new (to me) house has a somewhat larger than standard bathtub with jets. I rarely have time for a bath, but last night took the opportunity to indulge. I had a nice soak, in water heated by solar energy, but then I had a tubful -- perhaps 50 gallons? -- of relatively clean water that I would like to use on my currently thirsty trees, the only way I can justify an occasional indulgent soak. How can I get the water from m ...
Topics: advice, Ask Umbra, green living, recycling (all these topics)

Pop Top Coca-Cola announces big recycling initiatives		06 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 2:36 PM on 06 Sep 2007 Speaking around gulps of carbonated, corn-syrupy beverage, Coca-Cola executives announced two environmental initiatives this week. By next year, the company plans to redesign its 20-ounce bottle to use 5 percent less plastic, and will open a gigantic recycling plant in South Carolina. Coca-Cola currently recycles or reuses about 10 percent of its U.S.-sold plastic bottles; the company hopes to raise that numb ...
Topics: business, green living, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, recycling (all these topics)

Frock hunter Steve Irwin's daughter launches Bindi Wear eco-clothing line	Sarah van Schagen	05 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Australia, consumerism, fashion, green living, recycling, shopping (all these topics)

Bumblingshoot Trash bins overflow with plastic bottles at the 'green' Bumbershoot Music and Arts Festival	JMG	04 Sep 2007	Gristmill

Topics: consumerism, green living, music, recycling (all these topics)

Now That's What We Call Hospitality Vietnam hospital waste turned into plastic utensils		30 Aug 2007	News
Posted at 5:06 PM on 30 Aug 2007 Recycling gone bad: Environmental officers in Vietnam have found that nearly 300 tonnes of medical waste from a Hanoi hospital was illegally processed into household plastic utensils, state media said Wednesday. A staff member at the Vietnam-Germany Hospital sold the used plastic items -- including IV transmission lines and syringes, some still contaminated with blood -- s ...
Topics: insanity, news, recycling, Vietnam (all these topics)

So that's what happened to my recycled Coronas Crushed glass may help replenish Florida beaches	Sarah van Schagen	30 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: Florida, recycling, waste (all these topics)

Ask a Brokeass: Won't you be my neighbor? More high-tech solutions for low-tech ideas	Kate Sheppard	16 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: green living, placemaking, recycling, websites (all these topics)

Evian Is Just Evil Misspelled Hatin' on plastic water bottles is all the rage		15 Aug 2007	Daily Grist
Evian Is Just Evil Misspelled Hatin' on plastic water bottles is all the rage Forget SUVs and Styrofoam: hip-to-the-times green folk are directing their ire at plastic water bottles. In the last few months, the energy-intensiveness of bottled water -- 1.5 million barrels of oil go into making the bottles for the U.S. market each year, and oodles more to transporting the H2O -- has seeped into ...
Topics: food, green living, health, news, recycling, water pollution (all these topics)

I'd tap that Water, that is	Sarah van Schagen	03 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: food, green living, recycling, waste (all these topics)

Desert Flowers Legendary Burning Man festival gets an eco-conscience	Judith Lewis	03 Aug 2007	Main Dish
Armen Zeitounian leads the way up the staircase of the house he's living in, a two-story colonial nestled in the smoggy hills north of Los Angeles, complete with a view and a pool and a black Ford Explorer in the driveway. In a room on the top floor, a two-by-six-inch plank, painted white, protrudes about five feet through a hole halfway up the wall; in the next room, the other half of the plank emer ...
Topics: art, carbon offsets, climate, climate change impacts, climate change mitigation, green living, Nevada, recycling (all these topics)

Ask a Brokeass: Trade wins At last, a use for that old Milli Vanilli CD	Kate Sheppard	03 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: green living, placemaking, recycling, waste, websites (all these topics)

X Games skating toward a smaller footprint And sporting even more green efforts than last year	Sarah van Schagen	02 Aug 2007	Gristmill

Topics: green living, recycling, sports, waste (all these topics)

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