The Green Festival was great last year and promises to be great this year. I learned so much last year. This year it will take place on Oct...

We just bought this great Frieling French press coffee maker so that we didn't have to buy (and throw away) any more filters and because...

Dear DC Recycler, I'm writing to sing the praises of my latest recycling find in the DC area, Community Forklift . I'm expanding m...

Yes, the DC Recycler was away revising her book (on neoliberalism, economics, and socialism). The book went to the press on Monday. So, now ...

Pepco is hosting its first-ever D.C. “Appliance Swap” on July 24 at the Home Depot on Rhode Island Ave. Customers can bring in old, ineffic...

Your ReSource is a not for profit that collects used home medical equipment from individuals who no longer need it, refurbishes the equipme...

After several days seeing cork trees and cork products around Lisbon, the DC Recycler has become a convert to cork. Cork today can replace l...

Yes, the DC Recycler is taking the show on the road, to a cork forest outside Lisbon, Portugal. The DC Recycler will be reporting LIVE from ...

Flying Squirrel Pizza in Seattle is striving to to have the biggest collection of custom made mix tapes on their walls. Totally awesome!

Yes, it is true. There is an entire conference on Recycling Textile Technologies at UCL. It's part of a pretty interesting looking rese...

By popular demand, Common Good City Farm , on V Street NW between 2nd and 4th Streets NW, has started its "Common Good Compost Program....

Yesterday, I wrote an email to my favorite wine store , Schneider's here on Capitol Hill, to ask them whether they were considering coll...

Whole Foods stores across the region are recycling Brita water filters and other #5 plastics through the Preserve Gimme 5 program . You can ...

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.