A child who takes a lunch to school will produce about 70 pounds of garbage every year.
Seventy. Pounds. When I read that, I didn’t believe it and went right away to look it up somewhere else. Yup. The numbers come in at 45-90 pounds per student per year. That’s the weight of a 10 year […]

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The fuss about the consumption of bottled water is getting louder and even some who are not conscious of their personal environmental impact are starting to notice. In short: bottled water is excessively consumptive, polluting, expensive and wasteful. And with the dramatic increases in consumption of bottled water, the overall effects on the environment […]

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“Years of collective research illustrates the negative effect caused by the growing disconnect with nature… Understanding the important connection we have with nature and our environment is truly one of life’s most important lessons.”
- www.
thenaturezone.net

Nature Deficit Disorder, a term coined by Richard Louve, in his book Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children From […]

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I get a lot of questions about the name of this blog - Suburban Green Is People. I’ve got a page up talking about the name, but I’ll paste it all here too. And to answer some common questions: Yes, it’s a little long, but I like it; “suburban” is spelt just the way it […]

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“For the first time in the history of the world, every human being is now subjected to contact with dangerous chemicals, from the moment of conception until death.”
- Rachel Carson
Lawn chemicals bug me. Well, I’m not a huge fan of lawns in general, but the poisons people pour on them really bug me. In […]

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