Buildings from Rubble

Ancient technique of Gabion baskets filled with loose stone or rubble used to build Earthquake resistant homes out of the rubble in Haiti.

http://www.abpnews.com/content/view/5782/53/

Builders in the U.S. are pretty good at making concrete rubble.  It should be put to use.

Compost: the Safest Dog Waste Disposal System | Sierra Club Green Home

 If you are as disturbed as I am by the thought of landfills filled with little plastic bags of dog poop, check out instructions for a DIY dog waste composter in my article for Sierra Club Green Home.

Compost: the Safest Dog Waste Disposal System | Sierra Club Green Home:

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54% of energy generated in the U.S. from Burning Dirty Coal, Petroleum, and Gas is lost.

We drill and spill and burn and pollute to get the energy and don't even use half of the energy that was generated.  

Charts of Energy and Consumption:
http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/04/chart-us-energy-use-reveals-oil-coal.php?campaign=weekly_nl

In addition,  the US currently uses about 19.7 million barrels of oil a day, 71% of which goes to transportation via cars, trucks, buses, airplanes. So, the longer we rely on the internal-combustion engine to fuel vehicles rather than electric cars, bikes and public transportation, the longer we stay dependent on drilling for those rapidly diminishing fossil fuels, which means more risky wells in deep water areas of the ocean and the inevitable occurrence of another disaster like the BP Deepwater Horizon spill.