Author: Al Skoropa

It’s been estimated the average air passenger leaves behind three pounds of trash when deplaning. It breaks down to 33% discarded or uneaten food, 28% paper and cardboard, and 12% plastic. (The rest must be soda cans and all those little liquor and wine bottles.) When you multiply that by four billion passengers per year,… [Read More]

There’s a new gardening trend happening in New York, where there’s precious little land for such activity.  But you must look up instead of down. Up is where there are roofs, and if your home has access to a flat one, there might be a chance to do a little urban gardening up there.  Sounds… [Read More]

Let’s start with the phrase “anaerobic digester.”  What’s that, you say?  Simply put, it’s a high-tech plant that transforms food waste — orange peels, corn cobs, leftovers, oil, grease, table scraps, supermarket waste, restaurant plate leavings, school lunch room trash, cans, bottles, milk cartons, even (ugh!) road kill— all sorts of unimaginable crud, and turns… [Read More]

It’s true; the soil is a natural cleanser of our atmosphere through a process called sequestration—the absorption of atmospheric carbon. This reduces greenhouse gasses, and the carbon it extracts makes the soil more fertile. Talk about a win/win outcome. Cleaner air coupled with better soil. So, where does this atmospheric carbon originate? The transport sector… [Read More]