Last week I blogged about the power companies and our need to pay for infrastructure improvements such as selectively burying electric power lines. But what about why so many homes and businesses were lost. Who is responsible for that? I asked questions implying that the following parties are all partly to blame. Local land use […]
Making a Case for Solid Waste and Recycling Practices Laws and regulations are open to interpretation, and everyone makes mistakes. These two ideas expose many organizations and communities to financial and punitive risk for solid waste disposal and recycling practices of the past or the present: Are your materials being recycled as you believe? Was […]
Recently, the Township of Branchburg, New Jersey has taken a local homeowner to court over the planting of indigenous species including native grasses in a wet part of his property that adjoins a local stream that is a tributary of the North Branch of the Raritan River. Why? Because a neighbor complained about the unsightly […]
Earlier this year I had the privilege of working on the 2012 Sustainability Report for the Local Search Association (LSA). LSA is the support organization for those who produce what we commonly call the Yellow Pages. I disclose this because although retained to produce a report on the facts, most readers will look at the […]
The Editorial Staff of “Resource Recycling” magazine outlined a report published in Nature Climate Change in August of this year. The gist of this report was simply that people’s behavior with regard to green activities is more complicated than many of us think. This type of research goes to the very heart of long – […]