Yes, the easiest and most effective thing you can do TODAY for the planet is sign up for 100% wind power through your electric company . Whe...

Did you know that recycling one ton of paper saves 3700 pounds of lumber and 24,000 gallons of water? Please recycle.

Heads Up! Cork & Fork stores in MD, VA, and DC (DC address: 1522 14th street NW) are now cork recycling drop-off centers, working in co...

Today's Examiner has an article that argues that recycling has gone too far and that counties are wasting money on recycling. The articl...

From Writer's Almanac (accompanying a great, surreal poem about the telephone): Today is Earth Day. And it's also the 40th anniver...

According to Scientific America (via Treehugger ): "It's not aluminum cans--only half are recycled. Or even office paper, at more t...

Wow! In honor of Earth Day on Thursday, the International League of Conservation Photographers has chosen the top 40 nature photos.

All the Whole Foods stores in the DC/VA/MD are collecting electronics for recycling on Saturday. The first region-wide Whole Foods Market E-...

Taken your natural wine corks to the P Street Whole Foods (to the Wine Section), where they are recycling them through Cork ReHarvest . The...

A mysterious Mexican woven bag full of corks arrived on our front porch yesterday. Thanks to the mysterious collector!

Everyone is welcome to these free events around the Hill and DC: * Global Days of Service , 4/17-4/18 * Library of Congress , "Green Of...

Did you know that George Mason University Recycling and Waste Management recycled 325,120 lbs. of cardboard in 2009, which generated $3,307....

My colleague asked me that question. While we happen to know a DC artist who wants plastic corks, plastic corks generally can't be recyc...

Every time I walk past the bag bin at 7th and A St SE (see photo below), I see new bags in and old bags gone, so people are really using th...

There is a bin for collecting used bags, including Post bags, at 7th and A St SE! Some people might think about putting up similar bins in ...

The Hill was strewn with hundreds (thousands?) of Examiner newspapers in plastic bags on Sunday. They do this at least once per year. This i...

According to the NYT , eBay has started promoting the green benefits of buying used. Ebay calculated that purchasing a used leather handbag...

Well, I haven't had many thermostats in my time, but now one can easily recycle thermostats at Frager's and other locations around ...

After years of getting the Post and recycling the daily plastic bags, I finally realized that I could "donate" these bags to my n...

I'll bet many of you are finding that your recycling bin fills up much faster than your garbage can. Well, I'll probably get called ...