There is life after plastic. Ban the bags, and save the camels One hundred years ago, there was no such thing as a plastic bag. They simply didn’t exist. The plastics revolution began slowly in 1868 but really pushed forward in…
Think Again is a series that provides fun ideas for how to reuse items in your home that you would normally throw out or recycle. Reusing is higher on the “green” food chain than recycling, because getting another use out…
A solution to keeping fruit and veggies fresh longer in your fridge, as well as to reducing the “islands” of plastic wastes now floating in the world’s oceans, may be on its way to becoming reality. The Israel company StePac…
Plastic bags are evil. They are not biodegradable, pollute our landfills, pollute our waterways, convince fish and ducks that they’re food… it’s pretty well established that they’re just bad news. While activists encourage consumers to try using fewer bags, or…
Every day, Israeli stores and supermarkets give away 14 million plastic bags, which is more than twice the size of Israel’s entire population. While plastic bags may be handy for bringing back food from the shuk or transporting a cold…
This green prophet is delighted to be in County Cork, in the truly green Republic of Eire – a place I lived in for roughly 5 years some years ago (up in the Northern wilds of County Donegal, mainly). Following…
This week, our Green Prophet in Focus series gets up close and personal with resident Prophet Michael Green. Once a music journalist (he stands true to vinyl) and environmental activist in Bristol, UK, Michael has since brought his green wisdom…
SO you went to the store and forgot your reusable shopping bag, you folded under the pressure and took a plastic one so that you could bring your groceries home. I’m sure that this almost NEVER happens, but once in…
Everyone knows how terrible plastic bags are. They take hundreds of years to biodegrade, pollute our landfills and waterways, and most plastic bags cannot be recycled (only 5% of plastic bags are actually recycled). To add insult to injury, it…
