A Culture of Recycling

A Culture of Recycling

Brian Green

November 1st 2012

In 2009 I moved to South Korea to live and work as an English teacher.  It didn’t take long, in fact just a few short days, for me to realize how seriously the South Koreans take waste treatment and recycling.  When I moved into my apartment building a colleague pointed out to me that ...

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Tips Tuesday: Rethinking Ourselves in a World of Waste: Self-Portraits with Recycled Materials

Tips Tuesday: Rethinking Ourselves in a World of Waste: Self-Portraits with Recycled Materials

Elizabeth Travelslight

July 17th 2012

Adjacent to the San Francisco peninsula’s El Camino Real in Redwood City, Sequoia High School occupies a large, verdant, beautifully cultivated campus. Over fifty students from three classrooms at Sequoia High School collaborated to produce the contents of a uniquely informative art book that ...

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Tips Tuesday: How do you grow food without soil?

Tips Tuesday: How do you grow food without soil?

Laura Klivans

May 22nd 2012

In this picture you see Aury and Sophie, both AYLP-Bangladesh 2011-2012 Youth Leaders, carrying a bag of pebbles that will be used as a base from which their plants will grow.How do you grow food without soil? With aquaponics! Aquaponics is a sustainable food production system, which combines ...

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