The greening of my condo building

The AIRE team's "Greening Your Condo Association" seminars and outreach are bearing fruit! Some enterprising folks from my condo building in Clarendon organized a Green Fair, held last night.

What fun! They proved that learning how to go green can be educational and fun, too! When I walked into the building last night after work, the lobby was abuzz. The booths and displays included several of my Arlington County colleagues, who brought CFL demos (and gave away free bulbs) and useful info on recycling, how to buy green power, etc.

Other booths included green-grown wine and coffee (free samples - yum!), a green cleaning service,  Arlington's new "Car-Free Diet," and more. Our building engineer even had a little display! The festive atmosphere made for lively conversation and a fun, communal spirit.

Folks seemed to be very interested in learning how to recycle more and got all sorts of good, practical advice from Jan Guastaferro of our County recycling team. We do recycle in our building, so we're off to a good start, and we can do more. What are other condo buildings doing?

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Diana Sun is Director of Communications for Arlington County, a walking commuter, a new bicylist, and a happy resident of the urban village of Clarendon.

Comments

[makati condo]

That's great! They proved that learning how to go green can be educational and fun, too! Interesting views. Will certainly try doing that myself.Thanks for the information. I enjoyed reading it.

_filicity

[makati condo]

so we're off to a good start, and we can do more. What are other condo buildings doing? i also have the same question like this. Anyway,thanks for sharing very informative.

-stephen-

[Rich]

HP Using Recycled Plastic in Original Inkjets -The Same Process Two Tone uses.
Now we know what Hewlett-Packard does with all those returned inkjet empties.
HP revealed it uses a recycling process that uses post-consumer recycled plastics in the production of new original HP ink cartridges. HP inkjet cartridges returned through the company's Planet Partners program are reduced to raw materials such as plastics and metals. The plastic is then combined with recycled bottle resin and other compounding additives to make new inkjets.
The amount of recycled content in these HP inkjet cartridges may vary between 70 to 100 percent of the total plastic used. More than 200 million cartridges have been manufactured using the process thus far. HP used more than five million pounds of recycled plastic in its inkjet cartridges last year, and the company is committed to using twice as much in 2008.
This is the Same Process Two Tone uses and statistic show 700 million cartridges were thrown away world-wide in 2003 - and since more and more people use inkjet cartridges this amount has continued to grow.

[Rich]

HP Using Recycled Plastic in Original Inkjets -The Same Process Two Tone uses.
Now we know what Hewlett-Packard does with all those returned inkjet empties.
HP revealed it uses a recycling process that uses post-consumer recycled plastics in the production of new original HP ink cartridges. HP inkjet cartridges returned through the company's Planet Partners program are reduced to raw materials such as plastics and metals. The plastic is then combined with recycled bottle resin and other compounding additives to make new inkjets.
The amount of recycled content in these HP inkjet cartridges may vary between 70 to 100 percent of the total plastic used. More than 200 million cartridges have been manufactured using the process thus far. HP used more than five million pounds of recycled plastic in its inkjet cartridges last year, and the company is committed to using twice as much in 2008.
This is the Same Process Two Tone uses and statistic show 700 million cartridges were thrown away world-wide in 2003 - and since more and more people use inkjet cartridges this amount has continued to grow.

[Frank Borges LL0SA= Broker FranklyRealty.com]

Just wrote a blog about this event in Clarendon 1021
http://franklylocal.blogspot.com/2008/02/clarendon-1021-green-day.html