How much garbage do you generate in a day – more or less than the average 4.5 pounds a human produces every day (that adds up to about 1,000 pounds a year for each of us)?

(Information provided by our friends at SMUD)

So, did you deep fry your turkey and NOT burn your house down?

Let’s face it. Underwear is one thing we never think of recycling, yet a new trend has started in Japan that may soon gain support (pun totally intended) with the rest of the world, namely, recycling bras into solid fuel. Yep – women in Japan are being encouraged to recycle their used bras to be converted into solid fuel for industrial use.

ENTERCOM SACRAMENTO RADIO LISTENERS SAFELY RECYCLE OVER 56 TONS OF E-WASTE WITH C.E.A.R AT HOME DEPOT!

Do you have old, broken, electronics around the house or office that are taking up too much space? We will take them off your hands this Saturday and keep them out of landfills.

At Germany’s Munich Zoo, you can watch the courtship rituals of the banded mongoose, hear the morning song of the scarlet ibis or visit the Indian elephants, who help keep the lights on with electricity generated from their poop.

The garden snail. They are formidable pests which have tormented gardeners for generations. There are more and less environmentally friendly ways of getting rid of garden snails. How about turning them into a gourmet meal?

Solar cooking is the simplest, safest, most convenient way to cook food without consuming fuels or heating up the kitchen. The first solar cooker we know of was invented by Horace de Saussure, a Swiss naturalist experimenting as early as 1767.  A solar cooker is like a hot box, in which we can cook our food without any cooking gas or kerosene, electricity, coal or wood.