One of my newest addictions is called swapping. Swapping is nothing like shopping because swapping involves a deep appreciation for what I love most: reduce, reuse and repurpose. Shopping on the other hand is purchasing new items from stores that overstock and overproduce. Face it, we are consumers influenced by the market. Consider this. How many of us spend weekends [...]

Community collaboration was the focus in a major volunteer clean-up effort at a small recreational area in Conway over the weekend. On Feb. 25, more than 75 volunteers from multiple groups came together for the common good of the community. The objective was simple: to clean up a recreational area that had been littered for a very long time. The [...]

I once was told that recycling isn’t all there is to sustainability. Okay, while I agree, I have learned that recycling is a vital component to the success of sustainability, especially on a college campus. In February 2011, I started working back at my alma mater as their second sustainability coordinator. My background includes seven years of experience working at [...]

While wasting time before our flight home from Colorado, we stumbled upon one of the named experimental “green” Wal-Marts in the United States. Apparently, there were only two Wal-Mart Experimental Sustainable Supercenters, one in Aurora, CO and one in McKinney, TX. The 200,000-square-foot store, located at 3301 North Tower Road, in Aurora, CO opened in 2005 and was supposed to be [...]

 The phrase “Go Green” has been one that most people have heard frequently, especially in today’s times. But what does going green actually mean? For the matter, what does sustainability really mean? Most people can give you the broad answer, having to do with protecting our environment. But why?  The education process pertaining to the environment and sustainability has been [...]