by CELL Staff | Feb 20, 2014 | Staff Column, Sustainability Tips
by: Julianne Boulton Natural organic matter (essentially anything that is living or was once alive) goes through a growth (build-up) and decomposition (break-down) cycle. When we throw away anything that can be composted, the material ends up in a landfill site. The...
by CELL Staff | Feb 13, 2014 | Staff Column, Sustainability Tips
by: Julianne Boulton Space heating accounts for more than 40% of the energy used in U.S. homes, according to the most recent Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) . This means that you can save energy and money by reducing the amount of heating you use. You can...
by CELL Staff | Feb 6, 2014 | Staff Column, Sustainability Tips
by: Julianne Boulton Although carefully sorting out and sending your used items for recycling is a good practice, you can’t recycle everything that way. Many of those items that can’t be recycled end up in land fill sites where they can remain for years...
by CELL Staff | Jan 30, 2014 | Staff Column, Sustainability Tips
by: Julianne Boulton In our daily routines we regularly make decisions on how we are going to get from point A to point B. Travelling alone in your own car might be an easy option but it isn’t the greenest or the most cost effective mode of travel. A study of...
by CELL Staff | Nov 25, 2013 | Staff Column, Sustainability News, Sustainability Tips
by: Courtney Remacle Since 1997, an Adbusters campaign known as Buy Nothing Day has worked to remodel Black Friday, one of the 10 busiest shopping days of the year and a day notorious for out-of-control crowds, into a day of action-or rather, inaction. As the title...
by CELL Staff | Nov 7, 2013 | Staff Column, Sustainability Tips
by: Courtney Remacle Most of us can appreciate the fact that your college years are not exactly the time in your life when you feel your wealthiest, in terms of money. Part-time jobs and work study barely cut it when you’re buying textbooks, toothpaste, and...
