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Utilizing Rainwater for your Home Garden
As the saying goes, April showers bring May flowers! As Spring begins, capturing rainwater with rain barrels is one of the simplest and most effective tools for making home gardening more sustainable. By capturing and reusing rainwater from your roof, you can reduce water waste, lower your utility bills, and give your garden a natural source of irrigation all season…
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Introduction to Recycling
Recycling is one of the most popular ways to divert material from the landfill. By definition, it is the process of taking waste and turning it back into a useful material. A couple of very important things to remember: What makes something recyclable? For a product to be recyclable, it has to meet a certain criteria. Increasing the recyclability of…
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Renewable Energy at Events
Powering Your Events Energy consumption at your event is one of the harder sustainability features to understand, implement and change. Working through your energy plan will vary based on the type of event (example: music festival vs. an art fair) and location (example: outdoor festival site vs. indoor venue). For outdoor festivals, mainly large scale music festivals, your power systems…
