Environmental Stewardship

“If I take a cup and put it into a trash bag, it is immediately turned to garbage,” Daniel Hathaway says, lamenting the ease with which goods become trash. The “Recycling King” outlines a new paradigm for whole systems waste management, zero waste, and biodynamic agriculture.

Buildings in Europe and Asia have been known to last from 300 to 3,000 years. Why do American buildings last only 30? According to George Swanson, the problem is that our buildings are usually made of cheap, harmful, subsidized chemicals.