New Zealand has made a determination that Te Urewera, an 821 square mile park, now has all of the legal rights of a legal person. Sound crazy? Well really, if you study indigenous people throughout the world, those that we would say in the west are not civilized, you will find that in their relationship […]
Sometimes a story about the environment is really about something that is just fascinating. The New Jersey Oak Tree in this story certainly qualifies as fascinating. 600 years. Now that is quite a lifetime. Way beyond that of its species (White Oak). The tree is now in its declining years and that is a shame. […]
PSE&G recently published a white paper on energy…I don’t want to spend much time going over the paper as it is simply too long for me to discuss in depth here. However, I did want to take a key set of statements from that paper as I see it… “Moving Energy Efficiency from the Periphery […]
NJSPOTLIGHT offered one of the more in depth articles on recycling that I have read in the past several months. There are several key elements raised in this article about New Jersey’s recycling program. 1. The Christie Administration must stop diverting money from New Jersey’s recycling program that we pay for in our solid waste […]
I have written about solar panel recycling before as a concern…As a society, we often put production ahead of end of life use and reuse issues. Just take a look at nuclear waste, solid waste and any other issue where we make a product. Solar panels are certainly something to think about… As noted in […]