Rally Cry: The Future of Fracking, Water and Community
One six-minute shower, flush the toilet four times today, wash your hands, five minutes to wash dishes = 67 gallons of water per person. No coffee, no laundry, no fresh…
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Pennsylvania Renewable Energy & Sustainable Living Festival
A solar cooker made from an umbrella covered in aluminum foil? A rooftop heater made from soda cans? Those are just some of the backyard inventions that will be on…
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BP and the Government Think You’re Not Watching Now
“Today is do or die,” Annette said
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EnviroGirl on Clean Water Action and Berks Gas Truth
A growing coalition of organizations and grassroots groups is demanding a moratorium on drilling until its effects on the environment and human health can be assessed.
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EnviroGirl To Drillers: “You Fracking Whores!”
I looked at the folks from the East Penn Valley group who were attending yet another proceeding and saw people who didn’t need to see their tap water burst into flames to understand that they couldn’t put their fate in the hands of local authorities.
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The Toilet Paper: The Newsletter of the United Sludge-Free Alliance
Spread the word about the turd.
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Same Sh**, Different Day
Now, let’s add the known hazardous chemicals from the Marcellus Shale drilling sites to the toxic soup at the waste water treatment plant.
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Making A Difference!
Ultimately, buildings have to be part of the solution. Right now LEED is sort of based on doing less damage. You’re going to build a building, there’s going to be environmental impact. So we’ve got to figure out how to reduce that impact. What ultimately we know is that buildings have to become part of a world where they’re giving back. Where they’re creating more energy. Where they’re actually cleaning water. That’s the kind of place where we see LEED heading people toward.
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Building Codes and You
Municipalities throughout the world are adopting green building codes that address issues from indoor air quality to energy efficiency. This new generation of building codes is performance-based in nature, providing flexibility to create green, energy efficient homes. Learn about the implementation of cutting-edge energy efficiency codes in Boulder, Colorado and how municipalities nationwide can drastically reduce home energy consumption and carbon emissions.
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You Are What You Eat…Sewage Sludge?
Our natural human byproducts mix with the heavy metals, chemicals, pathogens and poisons at the waste water treatment plant, where it is heated, treated with chemicals and squeezed to extract the liquids from the solids. Water from the treatment plants is returned to the community and sometimes used to irrigate crops. Although waste water treatment plants were never intended to create fertilizer, half of the 7 million tons of sewage sludge created in America is land applied to farm fields, parks, golf courses and sold as bagged fertilizer.
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