Full of Useless Information

A new book edited by Paul Hawken, author and sustainability expert, entitled Drawdown reveals all the things the world can do to stop and start reversing carbon. The surprising results of this scientific collaboration includes ranking all kinds of actions that can take place.

How many straws do you use in a day?

Glass recycling has gotten a bit confusing

Your using what in the bathroom?

If you believe our health system is out of whack and maybe going back to eating whole foods is where we should be headed then you are going to want to hear this review.

Do you know what the number one determinant of a community's health is?

Sustainable business & environmental policy news for Southeast US

Supporting local shops keeps more money in the community and helps communities be more resilient.

Americans use 500 million plastic straws each and every day.

In part two of how to read organic labels, Beth discusses how to discover if your produce is organic or not and the EWG Dirty Dozen and Clean Fifteen lists for fruits and veggies.

Tennis balls, what do you do with them when they've lost their bounce?

We all love our pets but sometimes we overlook what we do for our dogs in regards to being more sustainable.

With this episode we discuss LEDs and why you should skip the CFLs and go straight to LEDs.

Reading food labels is confusing! It has USDA Organic on the label but is everything organic?

Tip 33 of How to Living More Sustainably, Beth discusses how making a simple purchase in glass reusable dishes can help reduce disposable plastic use.

For those of us of a certain age, the three R's meant reading, writing and arithmetic, which never made any sense anyway.

#47 use solar appliances. Beth discusses her favorite pick the Sun Oven.

February is Black History Month and what better way to talk about environmental justice than to do in month where we celebrate the contributions of African Americans to our great nation.

Making healthy choices is becoming easier and easier. Whole foods is the best way to go but that is not always possible.

Beth wass visiting her cousin's quilt store, SEW-MINI Things, when she found a great example of using everything.

It used to be that many of us did not have the choice to use 100% recycled toilet paper.

Join Beth as she discusses way to make Thanksgiving healthier and less wasteful.

In this episode of Full of Useless Information, we explore candy, jack o lantern after life and what do we do with all the left over candy wrappers.

It's so confusing! Organic, GMOs, NonGMO, USDA Organic, NonGMO Project Verified and what about supporting local farmers?

Southeast Green explores toxins in cosmetics, how to choose better cosmetics, the Skin Deep Database by the Environmental Working Group

Protecting and conserving water is really a fickle thing. When it's raining we don't think about it.

Louie Psihoyos, Academy Award winning film maker of The Cove, has delivered a gut wrenching must see movie.

Are you looking to better understand what is going on in the fast changing agriculture, food, eating organic, avoiding GMOs and processed foods, natural foods world?

The message of energy efficiency will not be denied.

There's an easy way we can all help the invasive Lionfish issue

Beth Bond shares tips on solar and especially the top three reasons you should consider solar for your home's rooftop

Southeast Green's Beth Bond has started a new series of videos captured on Periscope. Always looking for the humor in life, Bond has entitled this series Full of Useless Information. Of course Bond is hoping that most of the information is quite helpful, but she has a good sense of humor about all the random facts she carries in her head. This first scope is on recycling. Specifically, curbside recycling from home and what to do about styrofoam.

The first R in Reduce, Reuse, Recycle.