Best Ways of Recycling Things at Home
Many products are discarded before they may be used. According to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, there are sustainable materials that can be reused multiple times during their product life cycle rather than being shipped to the nearest recycling center for conversion to new products. Reusing natural resources improves their efficiency and contributes to […]
Odds and Ends
Hey Gang! I hope you all had an excellent 4th of July! I survived it. We enjoyed moving the Blues Fest musicians around for our 5th straight year. Our next festival is Pickathon (http://pickathon.com/), and we’re gearing up for that in August.
Updates from ecoShuttle Land
Hello everyone, this week has been so busy at ecoShuttle headquarters, here are some new developments from ecoShuttle Land! One exciting piece of news is that our newest, smallest vehicle, the new Nissan Leaf has finally made it to Portland. There has been such high demand for this vehicle that it was originally delayed […]
Plastic Bags Heading for Extinction?
Hooray for Italy. Italy is the latest country to have banned plastic shopping bags, and the ban went into effect on January 1st of this year. The bag ban gained steam after a grass-roots movement submitted petitions from over 100,000 Italians to their government. Several large Italian cities had already imposed a ban on the […]