Dear Friends, In September, the City of Lawrence Sustainability Advisory Board (SAB) will be embarking on a planning effort that involves long-range goal setting. Current issues under consideration include increased options for improving residential waste reduction and recycling, the promotion ...

![][1]Take a good look at this photo, in which a Chinese child dismantles wires and other toxic "e-waste" for money. It's one serious result of our giddy hunger for gadgets--iphones, computers, electronics whose missions range from email to porn.Recently, the world computer population surpassed ...

![][1]_Life Cycle is a series of posts addressing the impacts of everyday items. _Getting cleaned up can be a dirty job. Today, our journey through your day o' stuff brings us somewhere between breakfast and work, when you're getting beautiful or, at the very least, attempting to meet modern ...