Food waste — uneaten food (raw or cooked) and food preparation scraps from households, restaurants and grocery stores — is a problem. As food production requires energy and water and draws nutrients from the land, when the food is wasted, all those resources are wasted, too. Preventing food waste is within our reach. Awareness is […]
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Recycling’s New Reality
You’ve gone to the grocery store, bought everything you needed for dinner — chicken and potato salad — and you’re ready to cook. You peel the potatoes, chop carrots and celery, and set the scraps in the compost. You throw away the plastic mesh the potatoes came in because it’s not recyclable. The mayonnaise is […]
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Photos from Saturday at the North Country Fair
The 46th annual North Country Fair on Saturday lived up to its reputation on Saturday for lovely fall weather, lots of food, art, clothing and craft vendors, and — in memory of the Northcoast Environmental Center’s Tim McKay — a fun, all-ages All Species Parade frolic around the Arcata Plaza. See highlights of the day […]
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TL;DR: Five Themes to Up-cycle from the Green Issue
Did you throw away too much time this week? No worries, we’ve got you covered. Here’s a recycled version of this week’s Green Issue, and five reasons why Humboldt County is a great place to go Zero Waste. Reason #1: We’re Welcoming Zero Waste, one of the more recent philosophies to come out of the […]