Sandy Bauers has worked as an editor and a reporter at The Inquirer for more than two decades. She has covered features and news, and in 2006 was named the environment reporter. She lives on three acres in northern Chester County with her husband, two cats, a large vegetable garden and a flock of pet chickens.
GreenSpace - her column and blog - looks at how you to reduce your carbon footprint in everyday life. The column (below, with related links) appears every other Monday.
The GreenSpace blog is updated daily.
- Pocket Seafood Guide (PDF)
- FishPhone: (for mobile)
A guide helps steer seafood-eaters toward species that are abundant and well-managed and away from those that aren't.
Cruising the seafood counters at the Reading Terminal Market amounts to a grand tour of the ocean's bounty. I counted nearly 65 kinds of fish and shellfish in less than 10 minutes.
- Sandy Bauers on reducing your carbon footprint
- Birders' Big Sit!
Nettie Young, jaw set, a pink scarf over her hair, pauses to compose herself as she remembers.
"When I was growing up, you didn't have nothing to throw away. No waste food, no waste clothes, no waste nothing."
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GreenSpace: Dig for change, save Earth?
- Coin-counting firm urges us to recirculate.Hey buddy, got any change? A national coin-counting company thinks we have too much - jars and boxes and cans of coins, squirreled away in closets, forgotten.
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Many people think conservation requires hardship and sacrifice. Me, I've been sitting on the front porch with my feet up, sipping wine.
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Around the world, millions of people have no ready access to fresh water. UNICEF says 4,500 children die each day from lack of safe water and sanitation.
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My apologies to everyone driving Route 422 and the Schuylkill Expressway along with me the last few weeks. I was the one in the cobalt-blue Prius dawdling along near the 55-m.p.h. speed limit.
- Center near Pottstown accepts plenty you can't leave curbside.Greenspace: Their lives are forever changed.
Once people find out about Jim Crater's place near Pottstown - and who could even imagine a spread as wild as this two-acre warren of sheds and bins and piles of stuff, stuff, stuff - they're hooked. - The revolving saves more energy than the swinging.Frank Eliason didn't know any better. Lunch in hand, he pushed open the wrong door of the new Comcast tower. He used the swing door, not the revolving door - not the right choice for someone aiming to be environmentally correct.
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