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By Emily Corey As children, we learn to mix yellow and blue to make green. As the colors merge before our eyes, we are astonished at the transformation. And so it is with the green movement today. While we maybe easily overwhelmed by the enormity of the global problems facing us, in the simple mixing of small ideas and quiet actions, a greener planet can be reborn. Continue reading Editor's Notes By Margo Myles When your town is a largely built-out community, the last vestiges of open land take on new meaning. The attempt to determine their future is fraught with tugs on either end of the rope—to build or not, at existing zoning or not, for greater good or not, so as to leave a legacy or not. Control is in the hands of the owner and in the will of the local legislators and review boards. Adding to the mix are the many municipalities across the country that are working diligently to conserve the best remnants through public purchase programs. Continue reading One Good Deed Leads to Another By Jen Pennington Jennie, remember to tell ‘em these vegetables are organic and they can’t buy ‘em in the stores.” My father, Ralph Siegel was well ahead of his time. As kid in the 70s, I didn’t really understand the consequence of what he was saying. We just knew Dad didn’t use pesticides and that he was crazy about something called “organic gardening.” He grew way more than we could possibly eat and if I helped pick the countless rows of string beans, I could sell some veggies and keep part of the profits. I was a door-to-door-10-year-old-organic-vegetable-salesgirl with a wagon filled with zucchini, peppers, tomatoes and orange, acid-free tomatoes he told me to charge an extra dime for. I dragged my cart around our Northport, Long Island neighborhood, heading first to the Italian ladies who would always buy the most and lighten my load sooner. Continue reading Growing up Green By Steve Jaasund
Since that time I have spent nearly forty years researching, designing, installing, operating and selling air emission control systems for industrial operations—many of them very much like the polluting factories that so impressed me on that hot summer afternoon. Continue reading Four Decades into Earth Day—An Engineer’s Perspective by James McGrath By Christopher Arlen What’s preventing everyone from buying only environmentally-friendly products, recycling, and driving hybrids? What stops us from using the green choices already available? Simple answer: human nature. We are inundated with information and make more decisions in one day than our parents made in a month. We know we should do things differently. However, quantitatively speaking, most of us haven’t, or aren’t, doing as much as we can. Continue reading Aren’t We There Yet?
Paper and print sustainability issues have been part of the recycling dialogue since the tree-hugging sixties and the idea of reusing what we write our memories on and pack our groceries in, jump-started much of the environmental movement that we know today. Eco-savvy printers like David Hell of Graphics Plus have been part of the conversation for a long time. A native of North Dakota, he spends as much time as he can in the wilderness and is acutely aware of the need for sustainability in the land, and at the printing press. EcoZome caught up with him at his print shop in Seattle, WA. Continue reading Paper Matters: An interview with master printer David Hell. “Gauging green is a lot like a speedometer in a car,” says Lynn Krinsky, owner of Stella Color, a Seattle-based large format printer. “Even if you’re only going fifteen miles an hour, you’re still moving forward.” And while Krinsky knows the goal of a 100% green printing process is still in the future, [...] |
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In July, 1968 I was driving north over the Raritan River on the Garden State Parkway when I decided that my work toward a degree in Chemical Engineering could be best utilized in doing something to clean up our environment. At the time, the Raritan River was a literal sewer and the air above it was choking me so badly I was forced to roll the windows up—a real sacrifice in the middle of a New Jersey summer.
Interview by Emily Corey