Today, April 22, is Earth Day! If you want to know more about Earth Day, Wild Singapore has a great list of facts from John Roach at National Geographic, and Soropedia has some quotes that bring out the spirit of Earth Day. But the main thing is that it’s a day to remember that every [...]

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As if we needed MORE reasons to recycle our paper, here comes another: the Universal World House, a $5,000, 390-square-foot modular home, is made of recycled paper and could provide the housing answer to third-world countries, refugee camps and even homeless populations right here in the U.S.
The environmentally-friendly house was invented by Gerd Niemoeller and produced [...]

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The holidays are coming, and that means more unsolicited catalogs and direct mail offers crammed into your mailbox than ever. While unsolicited mail is annoying at any time of year, the flood of junk mail usually hits hardest in November and December, all in the hopes that you’ll make holiday purchases from the piles of possible vendors that the postman [...]

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We’ve mentioned before that junk mail destroys 100 million trees per year. That’s like cutting down every tree in the Rocky Mountain National Forest, three times over. But what does that actually MEAN? It’s hard to wrap our brains around a forest. How about these stats, from newdream.org:
• There were 5.8 million tons of catalogs and [...]

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