Editor's Note: Greenthinker Nathan Returns

My month-long hiatus is coming to an end and it's great to be back.

My time was spent on a work site with no recycling at all - every piece of paper, every empty water bottle, every can, every carboard box was thrown in the trash. It was a sad and surprising thing to witness.

So let's see if we can make up for it by spitting out a few posts from the backlog...