Have you ever thought about getting away from it all and moving to an ecovillage? What’s an ecovillage you ask? Ecovillages are communities whose inhabitants seek to live according to ecological principles, causing as little impact on the environment as possible. It’s a rather appealing idea to a growing number of people as self-sustainability and self-governance...

The words “highlights” and “waste reduction” seem like an odd combination. After all, waste – that stuff you throw away in trash cans instead of recycle bins or compost heaps – is easy to ignore. “Out of sight, out of mind” -  right? How could there be “highlights” about waste? Luckily, the U.S. EPA’s annual Municipal...

If you are like many Americans, you probably aren’t quite sure what to do with that junk drawer full of old electronic goods (e-waste) that you don’t use anymore.  This is a common problem. Out of the 3.4 million tons that the EPA estimated we generated in 2011, only 25 percent of that was actually recycled....