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The ‘upstream’ impact starts with us
Efficiency experts tell companies to go to the source of the issue if they want to solve the downstream problem. Don’t worry about fixing the logjam; go upstream to the source of the logs. The same...
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God’s green earth on a Sunday morning
I wonder how it is, after only 48 hours since my last trek around the block, there can come to be roughly 10 lbs. of junk lying alongside the curb and sidewalk of my path. In all my time of doing this,...
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A prediction: a new kind of resource mine…
As long as I’m out on a limb about picking up litter, I might as well venture out far enough to break the branch. (Some of my friends see this blog as lunacy so why not try to attain certifiable...
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Illuminating in the dark…
I don’t like that the autumn and pre-winter days are shorter. It means my Saturday and Sunday walks – empty trash bag and hot coffee in hand – begin in the dark. Even in the dark hours, my 2.5 mile...
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A stern message every hour on every channel…
My good friend Dave and I walk the golf course whenever we can. Yeah, there’s lots of golf talk, but we also yammer about bird species we see at our feeders and other mundane stuff. We don’t talk a lot...
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One week’s take: messy, yucky, sordid…
How much trash can you pick up in a week? Apparently a lot. No matter how you slice it, it’s a messy, yucky and sordid business. All manner of goo seeps out of containers and bottles and fast food...
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A thanks to unsung heroes …
My friend and sometime photo contributor Sherry, in her own inimitable style, gave me a gentle prod last week. She called me out for my unceasing bitching about slobs – while never giving a pat on the...
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A global morality: We recycle because we should …
So, should the end of recycling be at hand? My good friend and pathway picker-upper Bob sent me a thoughtful opinion article by John Tierney in this morning’s New York Times: The Reign of Recycling....
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Doing it right: Davidson …
I had a couple of hours to kill the other day up in Davidson, North Carolina. This college town is about a 20 minute drive north of Charlotte on I-77. Bear right at exit 30 and go east, cross the...
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Pick Up Your Path is now an environmental blog …
Pick Up Your Path is taking a new route. It has always seemed to me that the personal efforts any of us make to control litter and trash are part of a vastly larger environmental picture. (It’s just...
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