By Eco News Network
Glendon has selected the Aquaworx IPC Panel for pump control in its up-flow biofilter systems. The Glendon Biofilter treats residential strength wastewater to single digit BOD5 and Fecal Coliform, is totally passive, and requires no chemicals, additives, or UV light to achieve high quality treatment. The system includes a typical septic tank, [...]
By Megan Webb
Looking for ways to decrease your home’s electric bill and reduce your carbon footprint?
Check out WindowDry’s new EcoDry Rack, a laundry drying rack that easily mounts to your window or tile surfaces, supporting up to 25 pounds of laundry.
Why dry clothes naturally? According to Project Laundry List—a non-profit organization making air-drying and cold-water washing [...]
For those of you in the New England area, we’ve found a great company that delivers organic food right to your door! That’s right, Boston Organics works directly with farms and wholesalers to deliver boxes of fresh organic produce to your door, year-round, on a weekly or biweekly basis! Even cooler, Boston Organics delivers the [...]
By Megan Webb
At West Coast Green 2009, you could feel the excitement in the air when you walked through the doors at the Fort Mason Center in San Francisco. Exhibitors lined the floor highlighting their latest environmentally conscious products, services and technologies.
Leading the pack in the furniture category was Green Design Furniture, producer of sustainable [...]
Protect Your Family’s Health and the Environment
With Proper Wastewater Management
By Dennis F. Hallahan, P.E., Technical Director, Infiltrator Systems, Inc.
We’ve all heard the nightmarish stories. A family just finishes home renovations and extensive landscaping and then it happens . . . a smelly, messy and costly waste backup, all because a critical component of the household [...]
Dewpointe® by AWS Offers Consumers
Eco Friendly Alternative to Bottled Water
By Megan Webb
West Coast Green 2009 was full of innovative and forward-thinking products for both residential and commercial use. One of our favorite products at the show was the Dewpointe® DH9 by Atmospheric Water Systems.
Dewpointe® creates drinking water from one of the Earth’s renewable resources, air, providing up [...]
New Web site Connects Backyard Gardeners with
Food Pantries to Diminish Hunger
On Friday, AmpleHarvest.org announced its 1,000th food pantry partner in celebration of World Food Day. Since the organization’s inception merely 150 days ago, AmpleHarvest.org has helped reduce hunger for Americans in every state through a grassroots sign-up campaign.
Set up like a small retail store, Rosie’s [...]
Charles River Watershed Association and Others Resign
By Eco News Network
Last Wednesday, Charles River Watershed Association and three other environmental groups resigned their positions on MA DEP’s Water Resources Management Advisory Committee after the Patrick Administration’s reversal of its policy that protection of the environment, and specifically streamflow, was fundamental in determining water withdrawal limits for [...]
AirportShareACab Reduces Harmful Carbon Emissions by
Matching People in Cabs
By Megan Webb
Yellow is the new path to green. At least that’s what TripVerde, a software company based in Austin, has observed as it prepares to role out its new software product, AirportShareACab (ASAC), in San Antonio next month.
ASAC is a software program that matches two or [...]
By Beth Doane
How can something as basic and common as a cotton tee be harmful to your health and the health of millions of people across the globe?
Here’s how:
Cotton makes up more than 50 percent of the world’s fiber needs, but the majority of it is grown using extremely toxic chemicals and pesticides.
Some [...]
