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.
I made a tactical error at a meeting in one of the region's office buildings last week.
I didn't bring a coat.
- Anyone else out there freezing?
Chris Weber, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, has studied the global-warming impacts of the American diet. He found that red meat - such as beef, pork, and lamb - produces 150 percent more greenhouse gases than chicken or fish, not to mention veggies. It's the Hummer of foods
- Once a backyard staple, clotheslines are in style again.Most Saturday mornings, Steve Oliver picks up a laundry basket and heads for the backyard, taking action for his planet and his wardrobe.
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GreenSpace: Vampires stand by to suck your energy
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My husband's legs stuck out from under the computer desk, and I heard a quot;wow!" He couldn't believe the balls of dust. Or the energy we were wasting.
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If you want to be a green shopper, choosing the right freshly grated Parmesan cheese can be baffling. Is the plastic bag of Parmesan the better choice? The plastic tub? The plastic jar?
- 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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GreenSpace: On a roll: Dead trees go down the toilet
- Here's a way to help save forests, one TP square at a time. And it's painless.Of all the things to obsess about, toilet paper has never been at the top of my list. Or the bottom.
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