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DEATH OF THE STAPLER • ANTI-GREEN WORLD • SONY’S GREEN REPORT • ENVIRO-FAMILY MAY 2008

recycling:

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May 2008. Volume I, Issue 4

A Recycled Builder Environmental architect

Michael Reynolds’ crew builds an earthship using recycled materials after a Tsunami in Bali.

Reynolds has been building “earthships” in the Taos, N.M., desert for more than three decades. Page 58

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COVER ILLO BY JAMES A. MOLNAR

Future offices are environmentallyfriendly ones. Page 20 What would happen if governments did not set pollution standards?

We paint a picture of the anti-green world. Page 30 Sony, a company known for its slick electronics, impressively expands its recycling program to include all its products. Page 80

recycling examined GREEN highlights the bottom line in recycling: can recycling save the Earth? What should you choose, paper or plastic? And those pesky plastic water bottles: producing them in 2007 used enough oil to fuel 1 million U.S. cars for a year.

The story that will change your habits is on Page 58

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DEPARTMENTS Thoughts Readers were taken aback by April ’s cover story about droughts, floods and water wars and offer suggestions for better water usage. Page 14 Endnote 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Preston Gannaway presents a photoessay reflecting the high cost of recylcing along the East Coast. Page 98