Green Tip of the Week: Keep the Tons Down on Earth
Saturday, October 24th, 2009 Posted in Basic Green, Green Acts | No Comments »October 26, 2009 Question: I know we’re trying to reduce CO2 in the entire atmosphere – as in last week’s worldwide 350 movement -- but small places like Fairfield can’t help much, can we? Answer: We each can do more than you’d ...
Green Tip of the Week: Clean Clothes at a Good Green Price
Saturday, October 3rd, 2009 Posted in Basic Green, Green Acts | No Comments »October 4, 2009 Question: Should I buy those new “green” laundry detergents that cost so much? Answer: You don’t have to. You can put together laundry detergent that’s just as “green” for much, much less. Simple. One small shopping trip, 15 minutes to ...
Post #36: Better than Walking
Sunday, September 20th, 2009 Posted in Basic Green, Green Acts | No Comments »September 21, 2009 This is a big campus to walk around. With no shuttle, and no cars for first or second-year students (half the student body), what will students do in the bleak midwinter? Think of walking from Julie Hall to Donnarumma, ...
Post #35: Easy Shopping for Non-Toxic Food
Sunday, September 13th, 2009 Posted in Basic Green, Green Acts | No Comments »September 14, 2009 The Daily Green, a terrific website that I check regularly, has just published two separate lists of fruits & vegetables. At a glance, shoppers can learn some basics. Even though folks debate the meanings of “organic” or “local,” two ...
Post #33: Too Dangerous to Discard or Recycle?
Sunday, August 30th, 2009 Posted in Basic Green, Green Acts | No Comments »August 31, 2009 Welcome back to Fairfield University, everyone! Last April we were congratulating ourselves on the environmental initiatives Fairfield University was taking. And that’s good. But there’s plenty of room for improvement. It’s a big planet. This year, I thought we’d change our ...
April 19th Green Tip of the Week
Sunday, April 19th, 2009 Posted in Basic Green, Green Acts | 1 Comment »Question: Where can I recycle plastic bags? Answer: Let's re-frame this question. The real question is, how can we stop using plastic bags -- at the grocery store, the drugstore, the card shoppe, the dentist? So many clerks, trying to be nice, ...
Post #31: On-Site Environmental Science
Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 Posted in Basic Green, Green Acts | 1 Comment »[Scroll down a page for the March 29th Green Tip of the Week] March 31, 2009 This Guest Blog is by Katrine Gorham, a PhD candidate in atmospheric chemistry who does field work in the Arctic: [caption id="attachment_44" align="alignleft" width="350" caption="Because of ...
March 29th Green Tip of the Week
Sunday, March 29th, 2009 Posted in Basic Green, Green Acts | 1 Comment »Question: Exactly where on campus can I recycle my plastic water bottles? Those bottle-bins are hard to find. Answer: This problem can be solved with one small purchase. The one-step solution: Buy a re-usable stainless-steel water bottle, online, for the price of ...
March 22nd Green Tip of the Week
Saturday, March 21st, 2009 Posted in Basic Green, Green Acts | No Comments »Question: Sure, I care about the environment, but why does it take so much time (and money!) to get involved in all that political action stuff? Answer: You can get involved, free, for a few minutes per month. I sympathize. I don’t ...
Post #30: Searching for Green/Clean Water
Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 Posted in Basic Green, Green Acts | No Comments »March 18, 2009 [For March 15th Green Tip of the Week, scroll down a page or two.] Did you see that Michelle Obama had the White House fountains dyed green, in honor of St. Patrick’s Day? It looked to me like liquid ...