Despite some silly grumblings, the recent implementation of a 5 cent fee for plastic bags appears to be achieving its intended effect of reducing plastic bag waste. My evidence? Well, this falls somewhere between anecdote and solid data, but today I was at my favorite downtown lunch spot, Spice Express, where every takeout transaction ends [...]
Posts Tagged ‘sustainability’
DC Bag Tax Is Totally Working
Posted in Environmental Policy, tagged bag fee, bag tax, DC, sustainability on January 13, 2010 | 15 Comments »
Smells Like A Green Christmas
Posted in sustainability, tagged Christmas, Dupont Circle farmer's market, sustainability on December 14, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I love the smell of fir trees. My family doesn’t really bother with a Christmas tree anymore, which I’m totally fine with. But I always loved the way a Christmas tree could fill a whole room with its wonderful, natural, fresh green smell. I’m not going to wade into the debate over the most environmentally [...]
A Solar-Powered Stadium
Posted in Commentary, sustainability, tagged clean energy, energy, solar power, sustainability on June 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Allow me a brief venture away from food and gardening into the realm of sustainable energy. Via Inhabitat, construction recently finished on a dragon-shaped stadium in Taiwan that is powered with solar energy collected by a mesmerizing set of photovoltaic panels covering its surface: Pretty incredible. I wonder what other types of architectural projects could [...]
New Links: DC bloggers on food, gardening, and sustainability
Posted in Food, Gardening, tagged blogging, DC, Food, Gardening, links, sustainability on June 1, 2009 | 5 Comments »
There are some new links over there in the sidebar. I keep finding out about new (or new to me) blogs here in the DC area that deal with some of the same issues I write about here. So I’m reorganizing the links to put DC-area gardening, food, and sustainability blogs into their own link [...]
Long-Distance Food Maybe Not So Bad?
Posted in Commentary, Food, sustainability, tagged food miles, local food, sustainability on May 20, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Via The Kitchn, a new study reviewed by trustworthy food advocate Marion Nestle in The Atlantic says that emissions due to transportation are a relatively small portion of the average food item’s greenhouse gas contribution. The report says that most of the polluting gases are made during the production phase, and singles out meat in [...]
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One Year Blogiversary!
Posted in Commentary, tagged blogging, environmentalism, Food, Gardening, sustainability on June 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
One year ago today I started this blog, en route to DC after finishing grad school. I wrote: Some of the recent trends in environmental living – eating local, reducing one’s carbon footprint, etc – are ideas I’d like to adopt into my everyday life, at least to the extent that the constraints of time, [...]
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