Grill with gas, reuse cutlery for a start
By Diane Stoneback
Of The Morning Call
May 21, 2008
 
 
If you've been having ''responsible citizen of the world'' thoughts about greening up your Memorial Day grilling and leaving less of a carbon footprint wherever you picnic, Diane MacEachern and Rick Browne can get you off to a good start.

''It's not always easy to make the right choices,'' concedes MacEachern, author of the newly released ''Big Green Purse: Use Your Spending Power to Create a Cleaner, Greener World'' (The Penguin Group, $17.95, 411 pp.).

And sometimes, the old-fashioned ways are the best ways -- like using soap, water and elbow grease for grill cleanups, rather than harsh chemicals.                      Read more ...