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...that easy. Since RecycleBank launched in Philadelphia in 2006, its formula has led to unqualified success everywhere it has gone - and it now operates through much of the Northeast U.S. Recycling rates in one of the first Philadelphia neighborhoods that RecycleBank served rose from 7% to 90% in a matter of months and total waste sent to landfills is down considerably. "Recycling is something you can do today that has a significant environmental impact on the way you live," says Gonen. "It touches your life." (Hear Gonen talk about RecycleBank on this week's Greencast...
...economic incentive; it's also about a sense of accomplishment. By actually tracking what individual families recycle, the service gives people a more accurate idea of what they're doing for the Earth. You know that your recycling is being counted, not just tossed down a landfill. Metrics matter - measuring something is the first step to encouraging better behavior. "There's so little measurement around recycling," says Gonen, a Columbia Business School grad who came up with the RecycleBank concept in class. "But RecycleBank tries to ensure that everything we do is measured - and we share those numbers...
...substantially different from how we see them normally.” He was especially impressed by Sedaris’s improvisation in one scene, which then altered the direction of the scene itself. While the performances in “Snow Angels” are unique, the subject matter of the film isn’t groundbreaking. Green said, “It had a traditional structure…It’s not radical. There’s a familiarity there.” But it was the emotional exploration that Green enjoyed the most...
...viewer addressed this issue, pointing out that the comical shorts not only appeared radically different from the style of films like “The Flicker,” but that the humor was aggressive and discomfiting. In response, Conrad said, “It’s a matter of change, which I like, but also of different contexts and different aims. In the 70s, I became pretty frustrated with the way that the film community seemed to be pursuing aesthetic goals that had been already explored… It seemed relevant to carry the formal aims of structuralism...
...book, Paley is completely comfortable with her identity and feels free to speak frankly. Written shortly before her death at 84, the collection lays bare all aspects of Paley’s life and concisely presents her thoughts on a wide range of subjects. While some of this subject matter can seem simplistic, Paley’s voice keeps the collection engaging, her personal sensitivity and honesty suffusing everything and unifying the work. She exposes her entire consciousness and lets loose on all manner of topics, including gender, politics, religion, and, ultimately, poetry itself. Paley was laregly known...