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.
- N.J. candy factory flips switch on new solar array
- Going green with stimulus
- Holistic parenting takes hold
In 2006, the last year for which the U.S. Census Bureau has tallied the data, close to 4.3 million babies were born in this country.
- N.J. candy factory flips switch on new solar array
- Going green with stimulus
- Holistic parenting takes hold
I should be a lot nicer to the plant struggling along on my dining-room windowsill.
The poor, wilted thing could be improving the air quality in my home.
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This is depressing: I've concluded that my bath soap, of all things, is contributing to global warming. It contains palm oil. And buying an eco-brand doesn't help. Many of them have it, too.
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Harold McGee had just dumped a big pot of pasta water into the sink and was waiting for his fogged eyeglasses to clear when he began to think about water.
- Try "nutty" amaranth, he'll urge, or vitamin-rich yellow watercress. Then he'll erupt with a wisecrack.Steve Brill owes a good part of his success to a dandelion. That, and an irate New York parks commissioner who didn't want him eating Central Park's greenery.
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Is your refrigerator eating you out of house and home? Chances are, if it's more than 10 years old, it's gulping enough energy to put a serious hurt on your wallet.
- To play it safe, make your own.When Earthjustice and other environmental groups announced last week that they were suing several major household cleaner manufacturers, asking that they be required to list ingredients, I was mystified.
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Beth Terry has been making homemade mustard. Not because it tastes better - although maybe it does. She didn't want to buy it anymore because she could find her favorite kind only in plastic jars.
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'Feel here," Jacob Hellman said. He took his hand away from the windowsill in a Port Richmond rowhouse and stepped back.
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The Baltimore orioles of our region's woodlots have long since flown south. By now, they're likely in Latin America, chasing exotic forest canopy insects.
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It's easy to mock all the eco how-to books that the publishing industry churns out, never mind the number of trees consumed in their printing.
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This year for Christmas, Kelly Hagelauer is giving her husband 12 one-hour massages, one on the first day of every month in 2009.
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