Eco Women: Protectors of the Planet!

What do plants need to grow?

Sun, dirt, water. You know you want your garden to get at least 8 hours of sunshine.  You hook up sprinklers or find rain barrels to keep your plants watered. But what about the dirt? What can you do to provide the best nutrients for healthy roots and plants in your garden? Continue reading →

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Tagged garden without chemicals, organic gardening, soil testing in gardens, take care of your garden dirt, take care of your garden soil, worm castings

This Sunday is Mother’s Day in the U.S. and, chances are, some of you Eco Warriors will be spending some time with your own mothers. Or, perhaps you are a spouse/significant other helping your children get their gifts ready for their mothers. The Eco Women are here to help.

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In most cities the cost of garbage collection and  landfills is covered by property taxes.  Neenah, Wisconsin is trying a new approach to funding garbage collection, and by doing so they’re hoping to reduce the amount of garbage collected.  Continue reading →

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Posted in 3 Rs, issues

Tagged a plan for garbage, how to pay for garbage collection, how to pay for landfills, how to tax for garbage collection, Neenah garbage proposal, Neenah WI, pay as you throw garabage proposal, paying for garbage collection, paying for landfills, reducing garbage, reducing trash, reducing waste

Eco-Lassie loves to find new uses for household items, and when she was cleaning out a closet recently, she came across a can of hair spray. Now the last time Eco Lassie used hair spray was for her a wedding in 2005–when an updo needed to be tamed. But here was a perfectly good, almost full can of hair spray. Surely there had to be more uses for it.

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Tagged gum, hair spray, pantyhose, shoe shine, stains

Last month, Recycla read an interesting article about the city of Seattle’s plans to cut back on the amount of trash going into municipal landfills. The city has already banned foam take-out containers and plastic bags, established mandatory cardboard recycling and food composting, and set up a registry for people to opt-out of getting phone books. But city management thinks they can do even more.

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Enviro Girl has been tracking her trash in order to get a handle on exactly what her household throws away.  When confronted with the latest statistics on Americans and garbage (Americans throw away an average of 7 pounds of garbage per person every day), she wondered how her family compared to the national average.  In this instance, her goal was to be below average. Continue reading →

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Tagged garbage, how to create less waste, trash, waste, what to do about our garbage, what to do about our waste, what we throw away, what' s in our garbage

As part of Enviro Girl’s effort to get a handle on her household’s trash habits, and in effect understand how people can throw away an average of 7 pounds of garbage daily, she’s writing down all of her household garbage.  This list excludes recycled or composted waste.  Since yesterday at breakfast Enviro Girl’s family has thrown out Continue reading →

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Tagged garbage, trash, waste, what we throw away, what's in our garbage, what's in our trash?