Summer is the perfect time to enjoy a picnic. But how green is your picnic if you’re bringing virgin plastic cutlery, paper plates, and paper napkins with you? As many places implement ‘carry in, carry out’ policies, we have to think about the effect our disposables are having on the municipal waste stream and how we can better minimize our impact.

How many times have you sorted through a pile of papers looking for a phone number you jotted down? Or looked, horrified, at your kids after they decided it was more fun to draw on the wall than the paper you gave them? Not to worry – now you can encourage creativity and communication with [...]