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What were the biggest bites of April-June?
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Over the past three months, we've tipped topics from farm sanctuaries to fast-food. Some you considered tattooing onto your forehead, and others brought you this close to having a hissy-fit. Here goes...The Benefits
- Most Popular Topic: Composting 101. You Biters read and forwarded our tip on making fresh dirt more than any other. Runner-up: the potentially carcinogenic chem Bisphenol-A.
- Most Popular Wanna Try?: One Bag website. This expert's guide to packing light was a hit; airlines charging for extra bags...not so much. Runner-up: Thrifty Rogan for Target organic-cotton jeans.
- Most Controversial Topic: Reusing condoms. Some of you hated our April Fool's joke; some of you really, really loved it. But most of you blogged or emailed about it. Runner-up: Many were (and we quote) "shocked" that LaraBar didn't make it onto our best energy bars list (alas, for us, LB's more of a snack bar).
Personally Speaking
If all 276,000 Biters compost 3 pounds of kitchen scraps each week, we'll keep the weight of more than 287,040 sanitation workers in waste outta landfills every year.Wanna Try?
-Jul 11,2008
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The Solipsist Poll
Most popular tip among me, myself, and I: taking kids to the dump
Most popular Wanna Try? among me, myself, and I...and my moms: Caldrea candles
Most controversial topic among me, myself, and I...and my moms...and my coworkers...and, OK, well, you: reusing condoms
-Jenifer Morgan...off to ponder my existence...
Biter Comments...
I think when you are talking about the pros and cons of compact fluorescents, it's also an opportunity to alert readers to LEDs which use 1,000 less energy and don't contain mercury.
There are still a bit pricey but more demand may help increase production, bring the price down and create more interest in the technology for residential applications
Happy Bite weekend.
reader and your humble public servant
How could a "recycled" column gets so many 5 ratings????
What are LED's???
We have a conical composting mechanism in our garden and it is just so easy. It never fills up, it fertilizes our gardent and we really don't do anything by put our scraps into it. It is call the cone and my husband got it after reading how our scraps really wreak havoc with the land fills. So he dug a whole in the ground, inserted cone, and we put scraps into it. That is it. no Critters, nothing --just worms that come and get it. So anyway, hope this helps someone out there who thinks composting just takes too much time.
LEDs - are Light Emitting Diodes.
I really think the "greenies" are out of their minds on this one. I'm all for energy conservation, but not by using mercury CFLs.
After doing some reading, I'd much prefer the LED lights if I'm going to be forced to use something else because I can't buy incandescent light bulbs (thanks to the backdoor legislation in Congress).
And exactly where has it been proven as a FACT that CO2 is released by incandescent light bulbs? Are there professional journal ARTICLES (that's plural) to back up these claims?
Also, where has it been proven as a FACT that CO2 is causing global warming? Are there professional journal ARTICLES (that's plural) to back up these claims?
As I said, I'm all for energy efficiency and conservation, but I think the LEDs would have been a MUCH better choice all around. So why weren't they pushed into the market as a viable alternative maybe not instead but as well as CFLs? I bet it has something to do with GE padding Congress's pockets.
We need to address the issue of mercury in the curlicue bulbs and not merely say that in the long run, they use less mercury to produce. I have heard friends who really are concerned about the breaking of a bulb and whether they need to call in special help to clean it up. They have a good point that we shouldn't dismiss. There are those of us who break them. We've broken them--some of us have accidents.
If we break one of those bulbs on a wall to wall carpet floor, will the mercury remain embedded there forever?
Even small amounts of mercury cause problems over the years--it all adds up (See toxicologist Sherry Rogers's books.)
I thank someone if they can offer a serious answer.
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Posted by: todd | July 11, 2008 at 08:00 AM