ReGeneration Roundup - 2008-05-15
Reuse Ideas Give Everyday Products New Life
We blogged recently about the importance of reusing products you would normally throw away or even recycle. To help us with this, lifehacker presents a fantastic reader-submitted list of clever re-uses for common products. CD-R spindles, corks, twist-ties, tissue boxes and dryer sheets, just to name a few, are given new life thanks to these brilliant suggestions.
Does Smoking Legislation Affect Our Environment?
I spotted something worth mentioning in the Reuters Environmental Blog today. The blogger, Alister Doyle, asserts that the smoking bans that have been enacted the world over may actually be contributing to global warming due to the extra energy it takes to heat outdoor smoking areas. I’m not really sure what to make of this, but included it because he does make a very intriguing point. Perhaps more importantly, this piece highlights the fact that sometimes the solutions in our humble mission to save the planet are complicated and require some thought and discussion. What do you think? Let us know in the comments section.
Wine Growers View Insects in a New Light
Wine merchants are starting to view insects in a new light. Once seen as pests that must be eradicated through chemical pesticides that don’t discriminate between friend and foe, many vintners are starting to create ideal habitats for the bugs that prey upon the cutworms, phylloxera, and mites that enjoy consuming the grapes as much as we do. They are also increasingly using more sustainable grape cultivating methods that replace the harsher chemicals with more benign pesticides. Santé!
Saying this smoking ban is about being “green” or about being “healthier” is the same thing as tooting “freedom and democracy” in the face of the illegal invasion and occupation of Iraq. Dell’s new policy is nothing but discrimination, intimidation, and drug peddling. I’m sad that your group would see this as moving in the right direction at all. I, for one, see it as an aftront to personal freedoms in the same vain as the Patriot Act. More way that the corporations are taking over, and we are handing them the key at every turn. It’s outrageous, and I will never buy Dell products again.
by Pash / June 26, 2008