supereco.com - 2/23/2009
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Insinkerator. Garburetor. The noisy chopping thing under your kitchen sink that eats food waste and (sometimes) wayward spoons. Is it green?
One word: not really. Okay, that's two words. But no, not green. The greenest thing you can do with your food waste is to compost it . Not the ...
Survey: Do You Use a Garbage Disposal?
re-nest.com 3/5/2009 — I grew up with a garbage disposal, but didn’t have one in any of my apartments for the last 8 years and I really missed it. So when my BF and I moved into our condo last year, we were incredibly excited to install a garbage disposal, which was the ...
Organizing Under the Kitchen Sink
chezlarsson.com 3/10/2009 — 147 Above things have been fine. 022 Before Below is a different story. When we moved in ten years ago I quickly painted the insides of all kitchen cabinets including under the kitchen sink. At some point there was a narrow inset shelf to the left ...
Clever Sink Design Saves Water and Time when Doing the Dishes
treehugger.com 5/19/2009 —
Photos: Courtesy of Juan Solari Howard.
So after a lot of thought, we've come to the conclusion that using the dishwasher can be greener than hand wash , but we've also found that the manual work can be done a lot more efficiently.
How can we ...
Amazon Rainforest Carbon Sink Threatened By Drought
sciencedaily.com 3/8/2009 — ScienceDaily: The Amazon is surprisingly sensitive to drought, according to new research conducted throughout the world's largest tropical forest. The 30-year study, published in Science, provides the first solid evidence that drought causes massive ...
Good Question: The Perfect Sink Cleaning Tip?
re-nest.com 3/19/2009 — (Note: Include a pic of your problem and your question gets posted first.
Email questions and pics with QUESTIONS in subject line to:
green(at)apartmenttherapy(dot)com)
We were visiting Southern California this weekend -- here's a question we ...
Japan's Green Garbage (video)
universeeverything.blogspot.com 1/31/2009 — Space-starved Tokyo uses green technology to turn garbage into electricity while wooing locals with community-friendly incinerators.
Could Garbage Be America's #1 Resource?
treehugger.com 11/26/2008 — Garbage is America's #1 export and possibly the biggest raw material source we have. But what is waste? And why do we make it?
In nature, waste does not exist - if it did we would not be here today since the creation of a material that another life ...
Thai Garbage House
apartmenttherapy.com 4/15/2009 — Interior view of the roof
Thai architect, Rachaporn Choochuey, stumbled upon this house on the edge of the largest garbage disposal site in Bangkok. Talk about making something from nothing...
The home was built by its occupant, a man in his ...
sinkpositive water saving sink
sinkpositive.com 3/16/2009 — Used water drains THROUGH the tank to the BOWL! Tank stays clean as grey water fills the bowl for the next flush.
Southern Ocean changing but still major CO2 sink: study.
reuters.com 11/24/2008 — Reuters: The Southern Ocean has proved more resilient to global warming than previously thought and remains a major store of mankind's planet-warming carbon dioxide, a study has found. Oceans absorb a large portion of the extra CO2 released by mankind ...
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