Tag: zero waste
Plan your zero waste school lunch
School lunches seem to generate piles of rubbish, thanks to all the individually wrapped kids’ snacks on the market these days. Luckily, helping your children eat waste-free can be easy, says Gina Dempster.
How to kill your landfill (and create jobs doing it)
Faced with a landfill bursting at the seams the Raglan community set itself an ambitious goal – produce zero waste. Sam Judd meets inspiring waste warrior Rick Thorpe.
San Francisco: Goal for zero waste by 2020
Wow. If you've read the first issue of Green Ideas, chances are you've been inspired by Raglan's wonderful zero waste goal and how the whole community (around 4000 people) have gotten behind it. San Francisco has over 800,000 people. And since setting this goal to have zero waste by 2020 back in 2002, they are
Farmers of Forty Centuries
Reader submittedI must read Farmers of Forty Centuries again. Revolutionaries are interesting and inspiring in matters green but how deep is their experience? John Seymour, Rodale et al gave us the benefit of their thoughts and experiments in natural living and growing. Their lives cover the past 50 years at best.