Sustainability this week
Marc Lefkowitz | 03/29/19 @ 4:00pm | Posted in Biking, Reuse, Green buildings, Zero waste
A round up of news, trends or events related to sustainability in Northeast Ohio.
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Lay of the land: Who's composting in Northeast Ohio?
Marc Lefkowitz | 03/02/15 @ 10:00am | Posted in Food, Reduce, Zero waste
Composting, or turning food waste into nutrient soil, has become so accepted as a sustainable business practice in the last few years that many of Cleveland’s biggest institutions are doing it, despite the fact that it costs much more than dumping waste in a landfill.
Being thoughtful about holiday consumption, without being a Scrooge
David Beach | 12/06/13 @ 12:00pm | Posted in Zero waste, Stuff
The holidays can be a wonderful time of the year with family, friends and spiritual contemplation. But they are also a time that has become overwhelmed — from Black Friday to Cyber Monday and beyond — with shopping, consumption, and waste. According to Use Less Stuff, average household waste increases more than 25% between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, contributing...
Out of the (shipping) box retail coming to Cleveland
Marc Lefkowitz | 11/25/13 @ 10:00am | Posted in Vibrant cities, Zero waste
Cities reinvent themselves. And so the rise of small box—a project to retrofit steel shipping containers into micro-retail spaces for Cleveland’s Warehouse District—fits neatly in that category.
Spinning bikes and composting into a career
Marc Lefkowitz | 10/29/13 @ 3:00pm | Posted in Biking, Composting, Zero waste
Dear parents of Millennials looking for the perfect holiday gift. Your twentysomething kid probably isn't yearning for a sweater from the mall. If they’re at all like Daniel Brown and Michael Robinson, consider making a small donation to their crowd funding campaign and support their dream. In Brown and Robinson’s case, that would be starting a bike composting business in...
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