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Living Green: Time to get rid of glitter
Chances are that if you grew up anytime in the last half century, your memories of the holiday season are firmly linked to glitter. Glitter, for me, has always been an indispensable part of decking the halls and making things festive this time of the → Read More
Living Green: Buy-back program not dead, but close
As we head into the holidays, you may notice that you have more cans and bottles than usual to recycle, if you have friends over to enjoy certain types of beverages.But if you live on the Monterey Peninsula, you may have noticed that there are → Read More
Living Green: Environmentally sound gift giving
Yes, the holidays are bearing down on us. And no matter what kind of winter celebration you observe — Christmas, Hannukah, Kwanzaa, Pancha Ganapati or the winter solstice — it’s probably entirely likely that gifts are involved. → Read More
Living Green: Be a part of No Straw November
Less plastic trash is the goal of several recent initiatives around Monterey Bay, and cities are getting on board with reducing the number of plastic straws as well as other waste associated with takeout food.• You, too, can be part of t → Read More
Living Green: Energy use — and bills — go up in the winter but there are ways to offset the cost
Yes, winter is coming. The welcome change in the weather has shifted us into cooler days and nights, and we’ll really notice how short our days are with the time change this Sunday.And when it’s cold and dark, what happens? Energy → Read More
Living Green: Make a difference in your community
This weekend, pledge to make a difference in your community. There are numerous events going on for National Make a Difference Day, this Saturday, Oct. 28, one of the largest days of service in the United States.Not only does volunteering for t → Read More
Living Green: Reimagining how cities should look
What do you think the ideal city should look like? How should it function? These are the questions that municipal planners are now dealing with as cities look for ways to become more sustainable.I recently read a fascinating series of articles → Read More
Living Green: Sustainable living events coming up
So many events, so little time. Here’s a look at what’s coming up in the green and sustainable living community in the next few weeks.• Ready to replant your yard with native and drought-tolerant species? There will be plen → Read More
Living Green: Recycling car seats can be a problem
There’s something called the Law of Unintended Consequences, in which a person, agency, or government takes action — typically something intended to do good — but it leads to other unanticipated problems.And that’s w → Read More
Catios allow cats to roam safely outside
Cats are hard-wired to hunt prey — and despite the fact that we’ve been domesticating them over the past few thousand years, pet owners have not yet succeeded in eliminating the feline drive to catch and kill small creatures.And t → Read More
Living Green: Come together as a community for the common good
It’s all about community. This week around Monterey Bay, there are a number of events and initiatives that can help us come together for the common good. Here’s a look at some of them.• Need to dispose of an old refrigerato → Read More
Living Green: It’s time to embrace walkability
Why don’t we walk more? It’s a simple question, but one that has been inviting discussion in recent years as cities look at what’s called “walkability” as a solution to traffic and other problems.We live in ci → Read More
EcoDemo identifies desirable building materials that can be salvaged during demolition
If you think building a house is a difficult task, just wait until you try taking one apart.That’s what’s taking place right now at a house in Scotts Valley in a unique collaboration between a “deconstruction” compan → Read More
Living Green: Keeping the junk out of your mail
A recent email from a reader got me thinking about junk mail. Although junk mail isn’t quite as bad as it used to be — I remember getting pounds of paper catalogs back in the day — most of us continue to receive unwanted advertisi → Read More
Living Green: The Offset Project has lessened impact of local events for a decade
It’s been a full decade since The Offset Project began in Monterey County, yet founder/executive director Kristin Cushman is not resting on her laurels this week. In fact, we talked as she was driving to Pebble Beach to advise on preparations f → Read More
UC Master Gardeners’ Garden Tour to showcase drought-tolerant native gardens
Big or small, fancy or fuss-free — the gardens on this year’s UC Master Gardeners’ Garden Tour all have two things in common: They look great without using much water, and they’re set up to provide haven and habitat for loc → Read More
Living Green: Environmentally conscious corporations are doing what they can
One of the things I do in this column is recognize how people and businesses are protecting the environment — and today I want to give some shout-outs to corporations that are doing the right thing.• If you’re a fan of 7-El → Read More
Living Green: One person’s trash is another’s fashion
One thing that the Monterey Bay area has in abundance is artistic talent, and right now much of that creativity is being applied to recycling and reusing castoff things — finding new ways to make what was trash into something appealing, excitin → Read More
Living Green: Get rid of boxes and used items in one step
Wondering what to do with all those corrugated cardboard boxes that have been piling up in your garage? If you’re like me, you typically accumulate a pile of them and then take them to a recycler, such as Monterey Regional Waste Management Dist → Read More
Living Green: Bargain Barn completes move to Salinas
The move is complete, and the new improved Goodwill Bargain Outlet is ready for business in Salinas.Long known as the Bargain Barn during its four decades in Santa Cruz, the outlet store is part of a huge move for Goodwill Central Coast, which → Read More