Green Risks

Groundwater, Water Wells, Water Sustainability, and Sustainable Living

Thursday, July 28, 2011

The Dead Zone

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For the past few decades dead zones have become a yearly occurrence. Dead zones form in summers when higher temperatures reduce the oxygen h...
Monday, July 25, 2011

The Value of Solar Renewable Energy Certificates (SRECs)

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Solar Renewable Energy Certificates, SRECs, are not real, they are environmental “commodities” created by regulation that was born in New Je...
Thursday, July 21, 2011

Tree Deaths from Herbicide Use

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This spring as usual I prepared my garden for summer, deadheaded some of perennials (which I promise to do more aggressively this year...
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Monday, July 18, 2011

Recycling and Trash

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If we are to live sustainably on this earth we need to think beyond our carbon footprint and try to reduce our wasting of the Earth’s na...
Thursday, July 14, 2011

Landfills a History

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Historically trash had just been “tossed” out of our living areas. In cities trash and human waste was simply thrown into the streets or out...
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Monday, July 11, 2011

Prince William County Landfill and Renewable Energy

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On Friday, July 8th at the Potomac Watershed Roundtable meeting Thomas Smith, Solid Waste Division Chief of the Prince William County Pub...
Thursday, July 7, 2011

Global Warming, Fuel Economy, and Uncertainty

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According to the data in Steven F. Hayward’s 2011 Almanac of Environmental Trends which is the latest adaption of the former Index of Leadin...
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Elizabeth Ward,
Elizabeth was awarded an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh and an MS ChE from NYU Tandon School of Engineering, worked as a chemical engineer for both the US EPA in DC, and at DuPont before working in finance and then becoming consultant with Washington Advisors and is the author of "The Lenders Guide to Developing an Environmental Risk Management Program." Elizabeth retired from Washington Advisors and began her volunteer career and served 10 years as the Treasurer of the Prince William Soil and Water Conservation District.
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