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Monthly Archives: September 2011
Seeing Green is moving to a new home
York’s Seeing Green is packing up its bags and heading over to www.yorkblog.com/smart, the online face of Smart magazine. We’ll be housed under the “Home and garden” tab — when that menu drops down, click on “Green living.” We’ll continue … Continue reading
Toilet savings
When I moved into an old home with five bathrooms, a friend joked she was going to buy me a toilet brush for a housewarming gift. Don’t laugh — it would have made sense. What I have finally accomplished, after … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer choice, Do-It-Yourself
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A food revolution in ‘Fresh’ — and in York
“Americans fear only one thing: Inconvenience.” And so begins “Fresh,” a food documentary shown last night at York College coordinated by the sustainability and environmental studies minor. The quote is from a farmer’s foreign friend, who had summarized our lifestyle … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer choice, Food, Local events
Tagged buy fresh buy local, central market, convenience, documentary, farming, film, food, fresh, healthy world cafe, horn farmer center, john j. jeffries, local, michael pollan, monoculture, perrydell farm, the future of farming, york, york college
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PennEnvironment releases new air quality reponse
Listen up, Pennsylvanians: Your air quality is suffering. PennEnvironment, a statewide environmental group with offices in Philly and Pittsburgh, released a study Wednesday that says air quality may be worse than previously thought. According to the report, “Among mid-sized metropolitan … Continue reading
Posted in Air
Tagged air quality, allentown, bethlehem, lancaster, pennenvironment, philadelphia, reading, report, smog, study
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Buying into ‘all natural’ products
I have to admit, I am a sucker for the grocery store within a grocery store at Giant. The place became a second home during the two years I spent as a vegetarian, with a selection of vegan, vegetarian and … Continue reading
Posted in Consumer choice, Food
Tagged consumers, food, fresh, going green, green living, grocery, harrisburg area community college, packaging, products, york college
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Vocal Trash to perform at Saturday in the Park
Just a few minutes ago, I slurped the last of my ice tea from a Panera cup. I turned around in my desk chair and chucked it into the trash. And then I went back to work. Of course, if … Continue reading
Posted in Just for fun, Local events
Tagged event, music, performance, recycling, saturday in the park, springettsbury township, variety show, vocal trash
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‘No Impact Experiment’ begins today
We’ve written a bit before about the No Impact Project on York’s Seeing Green (here and here). In summary, Colin Beavan decided in 2007 to take inventory of his impact on the environment, with an end goal of a zero … Continue reading
Posted in Do-It-Yourself, Just for fun
Tagged colin beavan, energy use, environment, food, green living, no impact experiment, no impact man, packaging, recycling, transportation, trash, waste, water
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Films cover natural gas, fresh foods
For a budget-conscious yet eager-to-learn person like myself, local colleges are just about the greatest places I’ve ever found. I wrote a few weeks ago about York College’s screening of “Out to Pasture: The Future of Farming,” which focused on … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Local events, Marcellus Shale
Tagged CAFOS, documentary, energy, farming, film, food, fracking, fresh, gasland, harrisburg area community college, healthy world cafe, josh fox, marcellus shale, natural gas, york city, york college
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9/11 air quality, health issues still linger
I caught an episode of “The Daily Show” last week in which Jon Stewart interviewed Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Dr. Gupta was speaking on a CNN documentary he’d worked on called “Terror in the Dust,” which debuted Sept. 7 and replayed … Continue reading
Posted in Air
Tagged abestos, air quality, chemicals, cnn, dr. sanjay gupta, environment, fluorescent, health, light bulbs, sept. 11, terror in the dust, world trade center
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Greenways and Trails summit in York
UPDATE: The Greenways Conference has been CANCELED and rescheduled to October 23-25. The York County Convention & Visitors Bureau, PA Recreation and Park Society and PA Department of Conservation and Natural Resources will hold the 2011 Pennsylvania Greenways and Trails … Continue reading
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