Author: Mark Egge

Effective 1 May, glass recycling will no longer be available in Bozeman. The glaring yellow signs on the “Binnies” proclaim “Glass is Trash”. It may be, but glass is also a material which is almost 100 percent recyclable (and can be recycled profitably). Recycling glass is important: relative to new materials, making glass from recycled […]

Well, let’s see. What’s new? Oh, I figured out what I’m going to do with my life a few days ago. Yeah, that’s a pretty big deal. I’m pretty excited. Try this on for size: I will (presumably in the capacity of a consultant) help organizations and companies transition to paperless office systems. I don’t […]

… are going up. Green grass is coming up. Gas prices are going up. Green grass is coming up. Gas prices … Happy days, oh happy days for clean air and happy feet. Oh, happy day for the environment! — I’m going get into a fist-fight. I don’t know who, and I don’t win. (Ha […]

Ah. Tonight, I burst with pleasure to be an American. Ours is a strong way, a proud way. There’s an attitude–a relaxed, informality–to being an American that, I have good reason to believe, makes life uniquely enjoyable. Enjoyable to walk around this rural-suburban sprawl that I call my neighborhood, my home, in the darkening twilight. […]

For the first time in years… I watched the Oscars, and wasn’t furious at their outcome. I don’t know if I should attribute this to actually agreeing with the academy members, or… if this year’s movies just weren’t particularly diverse. It was a fine year for movies, but not great. Which is to say that, […]