The office where I work wastes a lot of paper. I think this is a byproduct of being a newspaper. Sure, we have big recycle bins in the hallway where we dump all the printoffs we no longer need. But we print several pages a day to edit stories we could just as easily mark…
Tag: reusing
Keeping the cardboard
It’s been more than a week now since my last post — not to draw attention to that fact or anything. In case you’re at all curious about why I’ve been slacking so badly and why May didn’t promote information about recycling nearly as much as I’d hoped, it’s just because it was bad timing…
The Several Lives of a Cell Phone
I am 25 years old and got my first cell phone, a lovely Nextel with the obnoxious two-way radio, when I was 16. I am now on my fifth phone, a BlackBerry Curve that I love. Most people I know seem to get new phones much more often than I do, but I’m not that…
Glossies Can Keep Giving
Last week, I was doing a little spring cleaning of my apartment, when I came to a corner of my living room floor that I rarely touch or give a second though to. It’s simply a place to throw the magazines I swear I’ll get to reading someday. It never fails though. Months (and months)…
A Better Way to Be 