One mile radius living.

Inspiration and Source from the New American Dream blog

For the past six months, I have been working from home. There are days when I pinch myself to make sure that I am awake and not dreaming. I can say that I have a green job. Most days I have no reason to use my car. On top of that, my job is to help motivate consumers to pay their bills electronically instead of using paper checks, stamps and envelopes. Less paper means cutting less trees, means less carbon released in the air. So in the past six month, I considerably reduced my carbon footprint, the mileage on my car, my stress level, etc…
I now use my bicycle much more often and…. I walk.
Here is an experiment suggested by the New American Dream blog that will help cut your expenses, keep you physically fit, reduce global warming and help build community, all at the same time.

Seeking power from the sun and wind

By DOM COSENTINO
The Intelligencer

An Upper Moreland company is seeking a $1 million state grant to develop a combination solar and wind turbine that it is touting as “the world’s first hybrid renewable energy technology.”

Precision Assembly Inc., on the 2300 block of Computer Avenue, is partnering with Bluenergy Solarwind Inc., to develop the turbines, which would harness both wind and solar energy and would be sold to owners of commercial or residential buildings to provide clean energy, according to Paul Stepanoff, the company’s chief executive officer.

Cool New Magazine on the Philly Eco Scene: “Grid”

By Betsy Teutch

Check out this great website www.gridphilly.com, which includes a PDF of the first issue of Grid, a wonderful full color magazine highlighting the Philly eco-scene. I’m happy to have a few little pieces in it!

Living High on Trash: The Falls and Tullytown PA landfill expand and accept radioactive materiel too.

Pa.’s high-tech trash pile to expand — again

By SANDY BAUERS
The Associated Press
Posted on Sat, Aug. 23, 2008

TULLYTOWN, Pa. - For 38 years, the mountains of trash have risen, all but surrounding William Penn’s historic summer home, Pennsbury. Nearby, in Tullytown, a 14-story peak now looms over one end of the tidy borough in lower Bucks County.

Source: ZerowasteAmerica.org

From afar, the mountain is big enough that the trash trucks , queueing at the top to dump up to 10,000 tons a day , look like insects.

Over the years, the two mega landfills , GROWS (Geological
Reclamation of Waste Services) and Tullytown, on 6,000 acres beside
the former U.S. Steel Fairless Works , have become a regional trash hub, with two-thirds of its waste now coming from out of state, mostly New York and New Jersey.

News from the Environmental Home Store

The Environmental Home Store Caps its

First Year by Opening A New Store

By Muze

When Todd Ballantyne opened the region’s first green building products store last September, he didn’t count on working even harder than he had in his job as a senior executive at a regional television station. Then again, if he didn’t want to work so hard, he wouldn’t be opening a second store later this month.

The sun-dappled store in Mt. Airy has been a success at many levels, he reports–enough to justify opening the new store in Doylestown that is twice its size.