Germany has instituted an interesting decentralized solar program whereby residents can install free standing solar panels with built in inverter systems. The idea is that residents can essentially create a plug and play system using solar power for those items they deem a best fit. Typical systems in the U.S. require a much more complicated […]
As reported in the Times, about 30% of all food that we have in the United States is thrown away or wasted food…Think about that…30%…It is the single largest volume of material sent to landfills and resource recovery plants in the country!!!!!!!! When it decomposes in landfills, it releases as much green house gas as […]
As reported in the NY Times, a NASA funded study that tracked pollutants from space has shown that the newly built massive warehouses cause pollution, and the corresponding truck traffic that goes with them does indeed increase air pollution to the surrounding neighborhoods. Worse, the NOx that is emitted is known to increase asthma and […]
Ok, that title should get your attention. The NY Times printed the obituary for Debby Lee Cohen in June. Ms. Cohen was an artist, who also became an anti-plastics activist. According to her story, she noticed that the NY City school system was throwing away over 800,000 polystyrene food trays every day when her daughter […]
As reported in the NYT on July 3, NJ is one of the states heating up the fastest…Given this summer, you may not be surprised…but the real question is why is this New Jersey heat happening? Well, no one knows for certain…but some reasons include our proximity to water…ie, warm air off the ocean over […]