Earth Day 2010 finds Michigan struggling mightily to achieve even average performance on one of the simplest, yet most effective, actions citizens can take to improve the environment: recycling. Michigan badly trails other Great Lakes states and the rest of the country in recycling. It isn’t that Michigan residents enjoy filling landfills. For most households, [...]
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Women and the Environment
March 15th, 2009 
grein81 March is Women’s Month. The Driving force behind our homes may very well serve as warriors against pollutants that harm our planet. The national non-profit group Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE) recently released a report card called “The Dirt on Cleaning Product Companies” that grades five leading cleaning product manufacturers on toxic chemical and [...]
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March 11th, 2009 grein81 The supreme reality of our time is…the vulnerability of our planet. — John F. Kennedy I will submit that JFK wasn’t referring to alien attacks and UFO threats. And as the quote stands on its own, it bears great importance to us all. The insistence that our planet is in pretty bad shape may have [...]
