Comments on: Pollution Begins At Home http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/23/14/48/pollution-begins-at-home/ Keeping a jaundiced eye on the corporate media. Tue, 02 Dec 2008 06:46:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Maya http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/23/14/48/pollution-begins-at-home/#comment-125110 Maya Mon, 26 Feb 2007 17:30:47 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/23/14/48/pollution-begins-at-home/#comment-125110 My dad, an estimator, just got LEED certified. I haven't seen him so excited about anything in ages! My dad, an estimator, just got LEED certified. I haven’t seen him so excited about anything in ages!

]]> By: Ecohuman http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/23/14/48/pollution-begins-at-home/#comment-125048 Ecohuman Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:51:13 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/23/14/48/pollution-begins-at-home/#comment-125048 Maya, thanks for visiting and reading! here in Portland, Oregon most C&D waste is not recycled, despite our reputation as a "green" city. you might enjoy Wendell Berry's book _Life is a Mircale_. Maya, thanks for visiting and reading!

here in Portland, Oregon most C&D waste is not recycled, despite our reputation as a “green” city.

you might enjoy Wendell Berry’s book _Life is a Mircale_.

]]> By: Ecohuman http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/23/14/48/pollution-begins-at-home/#comment-125047 Ecohuman Fri, 23 Feb 2007 22:47:09 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/23/14/48/pollution-begins-at-home/#comment-125047 Maya, thanks for visiting and reading! here in Portland, Oregon most C&D waste is not recycled, despite our reputation as a "green" city. we've got several organizations encouraging recycling & reuse (rebuildingcenter.org for example) and LEED encourages it. but--it's still fractional and doesn't address the main problem: simply building too much and with ecologically poor materials. Maya, thanks for visiting and reading!

here in Portland, Oregon most C&D waste is not recycled, despite our reputation as a “green” city.

we’ve got several organizations encouraging recycling & reuse (rebuildingcenter.org for example) and LEED encourages it.

but–it’s still fractional and doesn’t address the main problem: simply building too much and with ecologically poor materials.

]]> By: demeur http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/23/14/48/pollution-begins-at-home/#comment-125043 demeur Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:43:59 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/23/14/48/pollution-begins-at-home/#comment-125043 Oddly enough demolition is part of what I do for a living and you'd be surprised at how far we've come in the last ten years. Most of the sheet rock, wood, glass, concrete and metal actually is recycled. Although not all of it. Oddly enough demolition is part of what I do for a living and you’d be surprised at how far we’ve come in the last ten years. Most of the sheet rock, wood, glass, concrete and metal actually is recycled. Although not all of it.

]]> By: Robert http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/23/14/48/pollution-begins-at-home/#comment-125040 Robert Fri, 23 Feb 2007 20:13:53 +0000 http://susiemadrak.com/2007/02/23/14/48/pollution-begins-at-home/#comment-125040 When we finally can figure out how to build robots that can analyze and sort our garabage, I think lots of this will be mute - in fact I bet someday our current dumps will be "gold mines" when it becomes cheap enough to extract all the "cool stuff" we are throwing away now as garbage because it just isn't cost effective to process it now. When we finally can figure out how to build robots that can analyze and sort our garabage, I think lots of this will be mute - in fact I bet someday our current dumps will be “gold mines” when it becomes cheap enough to extract all the “cool stuff” we are throwing away now as garbage because it just isn’t cost effective to process it now.

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