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by Margaret Bruning

I live in a condo and like to walk through my neighborhood looking for edible treasures as the alleys in Phoenix are loaded with figs and citrus. As a way to meet my neighbors I always ask their permission to pick. I have found that they love to share their abundance and have someone else help “harvest” and enjoy their fruit. This is also how I stumbled into my own garden.

Two years after buying a condo and living city-style in the heart of one of the biggest metropolitan areas in the country, I was hungry for growing my own groceries. Daily I pondered my options so I began scoping out back yards and abandoned patches of dirt in all corners of my neighborhood. I spread the word to everyone with a yard, that I was looking for a patch of dirt where I could grow a small garden. I even considered guerrilla style planting in the drip-irrigated landscape planter at the adjacent condos.

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I think it’s safe to say that most people recognize the triangle-shaped recycle symbol on the bottom of plastic products. I’ve often wondered what the different numbers mean. So, we asked our researchers on the Your Guide to Green Team to check it out and here’s what we learned.
A wide variety of plastic products are available today and each type melts at a different temperature and displays different properties. The plastics industry developed identification codes to label these types of plastic in order to efficiently sort them for recycling. To designate the plastic products into distinct types and uses, the system assigns a number 1 through 7 that generally is found on the bottom of containers.
To help us understand further what they all mean our awesome researcher Maura Yates gives us the lowdown in This Weeks View.

We’ve all heard that our vehicles are among the biggest contributors to air pollution, but did you know that they are responsible for at least one-third of all smog? The experts estimate the average vehicle pollutes two to four times its weight in emissions every year. For example, if you have a 5,000 pound car, it emits 10,000-20,000 pounds of pollution every year (depending on how much gas you consume). So, what can we do? Once again, David McGrath, author of 25 Ways to Raise a Healthy Family and Planet - The Ultimate Guide to Green Living, gives us some practical ideas on how to reduce our gasoline consumption in this week’s informative article.

We’d like to encourage you to sign up for the Billion Bag, Bottle and Bulb Challenge to help Reduce the Use! of one-use plastic items.

Have a great green week!

Greg