Chewing gum has long been the bane of teachers and street cleaners...and the love of dentists. Made of synthetic chicle, sugar and flavouring it causes cavities, and sticks to the pavement--costing millions in street cleaning.
Emma Orbach founded the self-sustaining Brithdir Mawr community in Wales. “It’s a milestone in a free society that a minority of people who wish to live simply on the Earth are now being given this opportunity. The villagers are pioneering a new lifestyle.” Down the road, Tony Wrench has been pioneering "permaculture" for decades, and built the Roundhouse, an "ecohome of wood frame, cobwood and recycled window walls, straw-insulated turf roof; with solar power and wind turbine for electricity, compost toilet and reed beds for grey water. "
Photo: Women make up a majority of the menial labour force in the mining industry (CSE)
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So eating local and the 100-mile diet sounds good to you, but you're a college kid on a meal-plan. You don't get to choose your food any more than you got to choose that night-owl roomate of yours. Well help is on the way thanks to the Real Food Challenge.
The other day in profiling the company Terrapax, we suggested that Nau was not, strictly speaking, ‘ahead of its time’, but rather they were treading a path laid down by eco-pioneers, well over a decade ago. Today we take a peek at Esprit’s Ecollection.
We're having trouble keeping up with these guys. Seems like just as we get finished writing about them, they roll out some new eco-endeavour. REI’s most current initiative is to bung photovoltaic panels on 11 of their stores, in California, Oregon and Texas during 2008 (see store list after the fold).
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