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Tips from a Greywater Guerrilla: the bathroomvideos
While there's a growing trend to re-use our home's water (except for what we send down the toilet), there are ways to cut water use before replumbing for greywater. In this video, Laura Allen of California's Greywater Guerrillas shows us her dual flush toilet (thanks to a ...
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8 months, 1 week ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
American cosmetics: a dumping ground for chemicalsvideos
Personal care and cosmetic products in the U.S. are a dumping ground for mostly untested chemicals. "Under federal law, companies can put virtually anything they wish into personal care products, and many of them do," explains the Environmental Working Group's Jane Houlihan. "Mercury, lead, and placenta extract — all ...
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8 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Chemicals in the U.S.: "innocent until proven guilty"videos
The system for regulating chemicals in the United States is broken. "Chemicals in the United States are too frequently, almost always, allowed on the market without adequate safety testing," explains the Environmental Working Group's Bill Walker. "We let them out on the market and then 20 years down the ...
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8 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
Greywater 101: replumbing your kitchen sinkvideos
If you've decided to replumb your home to reuse your household greywater (everything but the toilet water), the first thing you need to learn is just what you're putting down the sink. With a greywater system set up to water your yard, it's important to avoid throwing ...
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9 months, 3 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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Living small: when home is a 150-square-foot RVvideos
They only get about 7-10 mpg, but RVs can be environmentally friendly... when parked. "What I use in electricity and water in one month is about the same as the average American household uses in one day." In this video, faircompanies' blogger Bakari Kafele (biodiesel hauler from our site and ...
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11 months, 2 weeks ago by: kirstendirksen staff 2 comments
Greywater 101: washing machines and happy raspberry plantsvideos
"Washing machines are usually the best place to start with greywater because they produce a lot of water and they also have an internal pump so they're already pumping the water somewhere." Laura Allen of California's Greywater Guerrillas says it just makes sense to use your washing machine ...
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1 year, 4 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
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Greywater 101: how to replumb your bathroomvideos
Most of the water we use and dispose of in our homes is not really dirty, it's simply grey. Greywater is water from the sink, shower, and washing machine- just not the toilet- and it makes up about 50-80% of residential "waste" water. Some countries and US states are ...
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1 year, 5 months ago by: kirstendirksen staff comments
How to reuse your home's waternews
By, at times illegally, replumbing their bathrooms, kitchens and laundry rooms, "greywater guerrillas" worldwide are preventing millions of gallons of usable water from going down the drain.Anywhere from 50 to 80% of our residential water- that which we send down our sink, bathtub, shower and laundry drains- could be ...
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1 year, 6 months ago by: faircompanies faircompanies comments
My new life: accidental "green" rep and writer (or: excuse to post more links of my movies)blogs
I never set out, intended, nor expected to become a representative of the environmental movement, an activist, or really anyone special at all.
As I mentioned in blogs past, I believe the most significant and positive thing we can do to be responsible citizens is to truly live each of ...
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1 year, 7 months ago by: BioDieselHauling user comments
Summary of not-very-thought-out rant on pending videoblogs
A few weeks ago the creators of faircompanies.org came to my home with cameras, and I gave a tour of my home, and spoke of some of my political and philosophical ideas while I worked.
I didn't prepare what I was going to say, and in retrospect, perhaps ...
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1 year, 7 months ago by: BioDieselHauling user comments
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