Introduction: Fixes You Can Make to Reduce Your Climate/Pollution Footprint
Specific suggestions for individuals
The idea behind this series of newsletters is to give specific suggestions for individuals and families on ways to reduce their carbon and pollution footprints. There are many places to find out about advocacy on these issues and those are extremely important. But I want this series of newsletters to make specific suggestions about actions you can take in your home. For example,
suggestions about local businesses or stores, and information about your local utilities
ways to avoid single-use plastic and foil in your home
rebate programs available to you in your county/state/local utility
Please suggest topics or submit suggestions via the comments. I will do my best to incorporate your ideas into an article and re-issue it. In other words, I would like to make this more of an interactive forum, than a series of newsletters.
Let’s invent a new green lifestyle together.
Column idea: introduction to compost. It could include aerobic vs anaerobic, home vs industrial, vermiculture, are things like the expensive Lomi kitchen composter worth it?
The Lomi composter has gotten pretty good reviews and is less expensive than the Vitamix, although you have to keep buying filters for it. There is a very inexpensive indoor composter that uses prebiotic bacteria to break food down, if you look at kitchen composters on line. It sounds, though, like you have mastered the rotating barrel composter this year.
From a Sierra post: "First, know that a healthy compost pile requires a mix of dry, carbon-rich "brown" items (e.g. dry leaves and grasses, newspaper, dead plant clippings, wood branches, hay, straw, sawdust, and pine needles) and wet, nitrogen-rich "green" items (e.g. grass clippings, food scraps, coffee grounds, tea bags, and fresh leaves)."