Blog Entries for lisa

A Green Halloween

lisa_wertheim@yahoo.com — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 17:00:00 +0100

Awaited impatiently by little kids, and dreaded by dentists everywhere, Halloween is a notoriously unhealthy holiday. However, this year while planning ghoulish (and safe!) night, you can go green. You may find yourself asking, ‘Hallow-green? How is that possible?’ Using Halloween as an example, by analyzing the various aspects of the event, one can see how any event and be green without loosing its in [...]

Goals for TTG:Schools

lisa_wertheim@yahoo.com — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 17:00:00 +0100

This year, with Teens Turning Green: Schools we hope to get as many schools as possible to pledge to a project as a part of Project Green Pledge. This project can be as simple as changing the soap in the school, or as ambitious as greening the entire food service. The campaign has all the necessary tools to make it easy for new members to do a project: an online toolkit with detailed steps of how to get involved, a database where schools all over the country can upload their case studie [...]

Reducing our Stuff

lisa_wertheim@yahoo.com — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:00:00 +0100

I walked into a kid's toy store yesterday to find a game that I wanted. I walked through the doors and was immediately overwhelmed with the smell of plastic. Determined to find the game, I walked into the source of smell to find the hugest toy store I had ever seen. The first items were the electric games in every shape and variety. Then, an entire wall devoted to a single movie's action figures, packaged in layers and layers of plastic. I came upon the game section, disappointed not to [...]