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Kimberly-Clark's Products Remain Problematic

August 5, 2009

Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Living Sustainably

Tags:
FSC, greenpeace, kimberlyclark, paper, recycling, simplesteps

Fellow green group Greenpeace has done a tremendous job educating the world about the needless destruction of ecologically irreplaceable forests to make products that are literally flushed down the toilet and thrown in the trash. And today the group has...continued

Administration Sends Mixed Signals on Mountain Top Removal Mining

June 11, 2009

Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution , Environmental Justice , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
appalachia, coalindustry, mountaintopremoval, obamaadministration

Obama Administration officials announced today that they are taking "unprecedented steps to reduce the environmental impacts of mountaintop coal mining" in the six Appalachian states of Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia. The announcement focuses on plans to...continued

Washington State Leads the Way on Ecological Paper Procurement

May 11, 2009

Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming , U.S. Law and Policy

Tags:
paperprocurement, paperrecycling, simplesteps, washington

Bravo to Washington State legislators and Governor Chris Gregoire for enacting on May 6th what is arguably the most ecologically progressive paper use and procurement law in the world. It is mind boggling to imagine the enormous ecological and economic...continued

Coal Industry Pushes to Destroy Water Quality Protection in Tennessee Rivers and Streams

April 13, 2009

Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution , Health and the Environment , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places

Tags:
biogems, cumberland, dirtycoal, pollution, publichealth, tennessee, waterquality

The coal industry and its friends are threatening to destroy water quality protection in Tennessee, the heart of NRDC's Greater Cumberland Plateau BioGem. The Governor and the Tennessee Legislature should oppose this unprecedented assault on Tennessee's streams and rivers. The...continued

Save Money, Make Your Restrooms Less Infectious, and Conserve Water

March 9, 2009

Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Curbing Pollution , Green Enterprise , Health and the Environment , Living Sustainably , Saving Wildlife and Wild Places , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
greenbuildings, simplesteps, waterconservation

Last week I wrote about the ecological stupidity of manufacturing toilet paper from forests.  Well, if that chat about toilet paper wasn't enough for you, today I'm writing to you about urinals. Why on Earth should we be flushing drinking...continued

Will recycled fiber toilet paper become the next compact fluorescent light bulb?

February 27, 2009

Posted by Allen Hershkowitz in Living Sustainably , Solving Global Warming

Tags:
boreal, brazil, deforestation, forests, KimberlyClark, NYT, Proctor&Gamble, simplesteps, toiletpaper

Yesterday the New York Times published an article highlighting the ecological stupidity of making toilet paper from natural forests. Although toilet paper is a product that we use for less than three seconds, there are more types of forests at...continued

Allen Hershkowitz
Allen Hershkowitz
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