Kitchen Scrap Composting Basics

Green Line this month is compliments of Devon Mann, co-chair of Southeast Neighbors. Her comprehensive article answers many questions on food composting. Why use your yard debris bin for kitchen scraps? All organic material, such as the food we eat, is made up of various types of

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Green Line: Emails

Wait… Don’t “reply all” While email communications use under 2% the energy of a mailed letter, the volume of emails makes them responsible for perhaps as much CO2 globally as seven million extra cars (BBC’s Science Focus). The occasional letter or card has a finer and more

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Personal Green Choices: Quotes from others

“Nothing we use for just a few minutes should pollute the environment for hundreds of years,” Environment Oregon site director Celeste Meiffren-Swango (RG 4.28.23) “Recycling in general is a complete waste of time. Oregonians have better things to do than sort trash in different bins. Perhaps if we

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Personal Green Choices: Battery-Powered Yard Tools

Personal Green Choices Five quick reasons to opt for rechargeable tools: 1. Their motors produce zero emissions. Gas tools, by contrast, emit carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). In fact, they are dirtier than car engines. 2. They’re typically more efficient than gas-powered tools. That means they

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Personal Green Choices

Two tips from our FCC colleagues: 1. EWEB has lot of energy rebates available on their website for Eugene-based customers.  https://www.eweb.org/residential-customers/rebates-loans-and-conservation Here is one tip from the EWEB site: Use shades and blinds to help heat and cool the house. On warm, sunny days, open the blinds or

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Personal Green Choices – Natural Gas

As Eugene faces a future ballot to ban natural gas and other fossil fuels in new residential construction, some of us on the green team watched a Creation Justice Webinar on Leaky Stoves and Deadly Gases, now available on YouTube (click here to view webinar) for any to watch. That

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Personal Green Choices

Thank you, folks from FCC, for sharing your comments on what I have written. Here are some of them: Do you have Personal Green Choices to share with all of us? I will collect them for future segments. Send them to Marilyn Flick, at socialjustice@fcceugene.org.

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