I keep writing about how important it is to compost your leaves, but I haven’t really talked much about the different types of compost bins you can make to help turn those leaves into valuable soil. Here is how you can make your own using simple and easy to find materials. The best compost bin [...]

This is the week that leaves begin to gently drop from the trees onto our lawns. This is part of the giant recycling system of the earth. The leaves, which consist of carbon, nitrogen and water, will eventually break down into a fine layer of nutrients for your lawn. Despite this great benefit, many Tulsans [...]

I was honored to be the keynote speaker last Friday at the Phi Theta Kappa honors seminar at TCC west campus. The two day conference dealt with a very heady topic of affluence and the choices and consequences of these actions. The sessions dealt with what happens when citizens get in over their head trying [...]

The Arkansas River is such an incredible environmental asset to Tulsa County. It connects many communities as a green belt of water and natural space. Our river is beautiful and natural, and it shines in comparison to the man-made concrete channels in Oklahoma City and San Antonio. But many of us unknowingly do little things [...]

There has been a lot of talk lately about adding more recycling to Tulsa area residential customers. There have been plenty of public hearings and a few stories in the local news. These stories have me excited and optimistic about the proposed changes, but also worried about how some people seemed opposed to any change. [...]