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David Chameides is not your average American. For one thing, the TV cameraman owns two Emmy awards - how many do you have? But more importantly, while the average American throws out around 1,700 lbs. of trash annually, for the past year Chameides has thrown out absolutely nothing. A deep green by nature - he also runs a website called Sustainable Dave - beginning in December Chameides decides he would keep all the garbage he created, at home and on the road, in his house. "We have the concept of throwing something away, but in reality, we're just tossing it over...
Essentially, that's what Chameides has been doing. All of his trash - including recyclables and organic waste like food - is stacked neatly in the basement of his Los Angeles house. He uses a tin box to hold bags of waste paper, and cans of garbage to hold the rest. For organic waste, he put in a worm composter that breaks down leftover food. Beyond that, he didn't create a master plan for his year of no trash. "I didn't really think this through - which is probably for the best," says Chameides. His wife and kids are exempted from...
Which one of the Baldwin brothers is your favorite? -Sally Verno, Williamson, N.Y.In my family, it changes on a six-month cycle. We all pick one member of our family and trash that person, and then it rotates. So I would say right now my favorite Baldwin is probably my brother Daniel...
...both right and left-wing guises. Solzhenitsyn, too, earned widespread acclaim as a great novelist not for any virtuosic abilities, but for the penumbra that hovered over him as a martyr to the Soviet regime. Nabokov might have had nothing but disdain for such “topical trash,” but the century’s horrors made it inevitable that writers would receive recognition as much for their moralistic projects as their literary merits. In many ways, Solzhenitsyn passed moral muster where his literary betters failed. His was, after all, an age when almost every major intellectual...
...know where they're staying." In the end, the project appeared to have garnered a tacit approval, because by the final day, it had become clear that no one in the neighborhood was going to disturb the completion of the giant three-panel work. (One worry was that the trash would be cleaned up overnight...