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This may look like a street, but really it functions like an ephemeral stream that feeds rainwater runoff into Lake Carnegie through its sto...

Here's a story that demonstrates two surprising aspects of life in Princeton: the stubbornly backward nature of recycling in Mercer Coun...

When I lived in Michigan, the first ever Dominoes Pizza store was just down the road a bit, in Ypsilanti. Having moved long since to NJ, I w...

It's the end of an era for a certain kind of diversity in Princeton. For as long as I can remember, Princeton's streets have been on...

As part of her advice to the graduating fifth grade class years ago, the principal of my younger daughter's elementary school said ...

Princeton is trying to deal with rising costs for collecting and disposing of solid waste. According to the consultant Princeton hired, Wayn...

The part of me that has always wanted to fight for our collective future has long been puzzled at how rare that impulse is. The destructive ...

This blog has long made the case for Princeton to progressively shift towards containerization of leaves, yardwaste, and brush. The aim wou...

This story picks up where the children's story, The Little Engine That Could, leaves off. How to keep all those toys for little girls an...

One of the great wastes in society is microwave ovens that suddenly stop working and get thrown away, when they could have been easily repai...

Both recycling days in March have been windy, which means recyclables are getting blown all around in the streets. This is the perfect examp...

Do the trash collectors take furniture? I'd started to see a lot of furniture left uncollected on trash day, and had heard that the poli...

One of the acts of kindness we received during the recent power outage came from my friend Perry, who called up offering to bring his electr...

A week ago, when a patched bicycle inner tube refused to remain patched, I resigned myself to buying a new inner tube only to find out that ...

T There's a law against placing grass clippings in the street. There are multiple reasons for this. Grass clippings are high in nitroge...

Memorial Day is a good day to tell of a most unexpected visitor to Philly this past September. The literature calls it "America'...

Local environmental groups--the Watershed Institute, DR Greenway, Friends of Princeton Open Space, Friends of Herrontown Woods, Friends of R...

Hidden behind the pandemic's grievous toll has been something of a flip side, a reawakening amidst the sorrow, what my friend Ron descri...

After researching the Princeton Community Renewable Energy (PCRE) program that takes effect on May 6, I can say with some assurance what it ...

Oftentimes, in pre-COVID scavengings of stuff put out on the curb, I would find tops without bottoms, and bottoms without tops. This woul...

The pandemic has demonstrated how quickly people can change their ways and adapt to new circumstances when they have to. Another examp...

The job of a raingarden is to receive, slow down and filter runoff before it enters a watershed. The runoff also serves to sustain whatev...