reduce, reuse, recycle

World Fair Trade Day is May 13.

International Day for Biological Diversity is May 22.

The Chinese are well aware that cities have a massive impact on the environment so they’ve commissioned the British engineering company, Arup to create a model eco-city where half a million people will live and work without damaging the environment. Their electricity will come from wind and wave, their sewage will fertilise the surrounding farmland and their water will be harvested from the skies and recycled.

read about this on BBC’s Costing the Earth. pretty interesting project.

being eco-conscious is uber trendy apparently. must be earth week at wired.

also, i’m curious, any suggestions out there on good ecofriendly sites to visit/read/support? i’ve been hearing a lot about Treehugger lately and just added that to my rss newslist.

there was an interesting article on Wired about the role of businesses and technology in RR&R

cliche, but a good idea all the same.

things you can do

also…a few of my spring cleaning goals:

1. go through my clothes and bag and donate what i don’t wear.
2. think about having a yard sale.
3. gather all the random stuff i want to get rid of and either sell it on ebay/amazon or freecycle it locally.
4. sort through the random paper piles and shred and file where needed.
5. donate books i don’t plan to read/reread, and bookcross more.
6. be less afraid of the trash can.