The Delaware Gazette

The scoop on greening your doggie’s doo

Accord­ing to an arti­cle in Nat­ural Dog Mag­a­zine, in the U.S., we dump more than 10 mil­lion tons of dog waste into our land­fills each year which accounts for as much as four per­cent of the land­fill. The methane from dog waste is sup­pos­edly 30 times more potent than car­bon diox­ide as a green­house gas and, accord­ing to the EPA, “dog waste con­tributes to sur­face and ground water bac­te­ria.” So, what’s a pet owner to do?

Trending: The No ‘Poo Movement

Okay, this is not what you think it is. This move­ment is not one that is against any sort of bowel func­tion. This is a grow­ing group of grass­roots indi­vid­u­als who don’t use sham­poo or con­di­tioner in their hair but allow for more nat­ural hair care. I did catch your atten­tion, didn’t I?

Think Local: Celebrate Earth Day in Delaware

Make your Earth Day a local affair with some eco-activities planned in part­ner­ship by Sus­tain­able Delaware, the League of Women Vot­ers of Delaware County, Delaware Career Cen­ter and Delaware City Schools & Ohio Wes­leyan Uni­ver­sity. With the theme “Together, Tak­ing Respon­si­bil­ity for Our Future,” the events kick-off on Sun­day, April 21 with a Freecy­cle & Expo at Mingo Park in the Hilborn Room from noon to 4 p.m.

Put some green on your calendar

Mother Nature is paint­ing Spring with a palette of white lately, but you can put some green on your cal­en­dar with these fun and edu­ca­tional events for the whole family.

Our kids: The next generation of green

For any par­ent who is con­cerned about the envi­ron­ment, I think one of the things we strive to do well is share our val­ues and knowl­edge and love of the nat­ural world with our kids.

Dreams of spring, France

What’s great about March is the fact that spring break (or if you don’t have kids in school any­more, just spring itself), is vis­i­ble on the dis­tant hori­zon. No, it’s not a mirage, it really is com­ing and we will soon be able to tuck another win­ter away on the shelf and safely unfold our thoughts of revi­tal­iz­ing sun­shine and blos­som­ing landscapes.

Family farms key to eating local food

The “local food” move­ment has gained a lot of steam over the past few years, and with good rea­son. Eat­ing sea­son­ally and closer to home means fresher, health­ier food for your fam­ily, not to men­tion the fos­sil fuels it saves by not hav­ing to be shipped from the other side of the coun­try (or beyond!). If you’ve never enjoyed a salad of baby greens picked just a few hours ear­lier, you truly don’t know just how deli­cious and deeply sat­is­fy­ing a sim­ple salad can be.

Goodbye, Casper the Camel

This doesn’t per­tain to green liv­ing, per se, but I wanted to pay trib­ute to a friend of mine who recently passed away. He was a local Delaware sup­porter that many of the down­town mer­chants prob­a­bly knew or at least would recognize.

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