Excerpted from “Volunteer Abroad,” by Jemilah Magnusson for TheGreenGuide.com:
With summer in the air, it’s time to stretch our legs, get away from work or school and rediscover the world and ourselves. And in this rediscovery, helping others can play a large part. While still a senior in high school, Stephanie Wilks heard the call for […]

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Excerpted from “How to Live With Just 100 Things,” by Lisa McLaughlin for Time Magazine:
Excess consumption is practically an American religion. But as anyone with a filled-to-the-gills closet knows, the things we accumulate can become oppressive. With all this stuff piling up and never quite getting put away, we’re no longer huddled masses yearning to […]

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Oil Price Fallout: Jobs Coming Home?As shipping costs rise, businesses jump ship.By SHARON ALFONSI
June 24, 2008 —
As the cost of shipping continues to soar along with fuel prices, homegrown manufacturing jobs are making a comeback after decades of decline.
While it once cost $3,000 to ship a container from a city like Shanghai to New York, […]

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Excerpted from Healthy Beaches (TheGreenGuide.com):

For recent beach closings and information on how to find out if your favorite swimming spot is currently home to unsafe levels of bacteria, see the EPA’s Beach Advisory and Closing on-line Notification (BEACON) site and Earth911’s Beach Water Quality pages. Beaches that aren’t listed may not be monitored regularly. […]

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In one of the many letters he wrote to his son in the 1740s, Lord Chesterfield offered the following advice: “There is time enough for everything in the course of the day, if you do but one thing at once, but there is not time enough in the year, if you will do two things […]

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The Frederick County Commissioners today decided to increase solid waste fees to make up for a nearly $6 million shortfall in the fiscal 2009 solid waste budget.
They decided to increase the system benefit charge, which is levied on every household in the county, from $36 this year to $80 in fiscal 2009. In the following […]

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