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...going green usually boil down to one, so elegantly put by a frog who had no choice in the matter: It's not easy being green. It's easier to toss the leftovers into the 13-gal. (50 L) Hefty bag than figure out how to use the compost bin that sits just outside. It's easier to drive to the grocery store than to plant my own vegetable garden. It's easier to keep my job writing for a magazine that prints 3.25 million copies a week than it is to start over in a new career designing suburban...
...homes feature passive solar design, with densely insulated walls and multipaned Fiberglas windows that save energy through the freezing New York winters. The lightbulbs are efficient compact fluorescents, of course; some houses have compost toilets to save water; and a recycling and reuse program keeps waste at about a quarter of what a similarly sized development would produce. Simple solidarity goes a long way toward keeping green. "There's a real culture of encouragement here," says Elan Shapiro, a founding resident...
...when all the tomatoes are gone from the big bowl on the kitchen counter, we will have the butternut squash - at least I think it is butternut squash growing on a 15 foot vine that spontaneously erupted from our compost heap. I remember tossing skins and seeds there last fall after baking a squash casserole on a cold, cold...
...Cheney remains quite powerful. That is at least partly because, unlike other powerful figures who became liabilities in previous administrations, there is no moving him along. You can't fire him. You can't reorganize him into another job. You can't compost him - and find someone to squeeze in on top of him. And there is no evidence that Bush would if he could, though just about every Republican I know privately wonders about this. One former Bush adviser posed the question in a recent conversation: After Iraq, does the President weigh Cheney's advice in the same...
...willing to take it, he might as well add. Negative costs drive the company's bottom line. Only the label on the bottle of TerraCycle's flagship product is new. The product is a ready-to-use organic plant-food spray, made from the excrement of worms fed on compost and packaged in repurposed soda bottles...