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Where Do Flushed Medications Actually Go? (opens the original)
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Open your medicine cabinet, and you will probably find something you no longer need: a few painkillers left over from a dental procedure, a prescription your doctor changed, a bottle of something that expired sometime last winter. Once you know you won't use it, the question becomes where it should go.<di
Bag Trash Before It Breeds (opens the original)
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This week, grab gloves, a trash bag, and a friend or two, and go for a walk together to clear litter from your neighborhood. Dutch field experiments show why this is effective. Researchers left a stamped envelope sticking halfway out of a public mailbox with a five-euro note visible through its address window. The money looked like it had been left accidentally, tempting a person to take it. When the mailbox and the sidewalk around it were clean, just 13 percent of passersby pocketed it. But wit
Take an Electric Drive, Leave Your Doubts Behind (opens the original)
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Peggy’s note: Your writers of One Step This Week, Fred and Peggy, founders of Sustainable Practice, both drive EVs and have no concern about range, driving in cold weather, or finding charging locations. Meet with an EV driver near you this month! And check our references and resources at the end of this article that may also answer any questions you might have.Thanks for reading One Step This Week from Sustainable Practice! Subscribe for free to receive new posts a
Close the Window You Didn’t Know Was Open (opens the original)
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Stand next to your front door on a breezy day and hold the back of your hand an inch from the frame. If you feel even the faintest stir of air, you’ve found a gap that’s been costing you money since you moved in. No thermostat setting fixes it, because the air you pay to heat or cool is leaving the building before it ever does its job.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kibL!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-pos
Leave a Trace (opens the original)
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You know the park with the broken swing, the trail with the eroded hairpin curve, or the flowerbed nobody’s weeded since spring. Every town has one. Somebody’s going to fix it eventually, and more often than not, that somebody is a volunteer wearing a temporary parks department name tag rather than an employee on the clock. The budget is tight, and the paid employee has more tasks than they can handle.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ydsU
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