Sunday, February 19, 2012 at 12:00PM Annie Leonard and Ty give great tips to help save the environment and save some money!
ABC, The Revolution, compost, concentrate, environment, green, momney, reduce, reuse, save, tips, waste Monday, January 23, 2012 at 12:50AM The constant use of plastic bottles is really harmful to the environment and can be pretty easily reduced. here are some ways to stop using plastic bottles so much.
Monday, October 17, 2011 at 11:45PM Danny Seo of Better Homes and Gardens magazine showed Maggie Rodriguez some eco-friendly tricks and treats for a greener Halloween.
Monday, July 11, 2011 at 12:00PM Recycling’s great, but go even greener by precycling as well, and create less waste to recycle in the first place.
Bring reusable sacks and containers to the supermarket to carry your items in the cart, rather than using the clear plastic bags that stores provide. When checking out, place all your purchases into reusable bags.
Take a thermos to the cafe, or fill it at home; pack a lunch in a box or insulated sack instead of a paper or plastic bag; drink tap water instead of bottled; and buy fresh foods rather than prepackaged. Carry cloth handkerchiefs, and ask take-out joints to hold the plastic cutlery, individual condiment servings, and paper napkins.
Set up your bills for auto pay. You’ll cut out excess mail and avoid late fees. Read online editions of newspapers and magazines, which are often free and feature additional multimedia content. To prevent unwanted catalogs or junk mail, request to be removed from the company’s mailing list.
For a $1 fee, the Direct Marketing Association’s mail preference service will take you off the mailing lists of many large companies for five years.
Avoid buying single- or limited-use products, such as disposable diapers, cleansing face wipes, and razors.
At work, think twice before printing out emails or documents. Double-sided copies also reduce paper consumption. Posting employee manuals and memos online creates less paper waste and makes the documents easier to update.
Use concentrated dish and laundry detergents, which pack more cleaning power into less packaging.
Fill your home with the natural scent of houseplants or potpourri instead of using store-bought air fresheners, especially ones with disposable cartridges.
You can use white vinegar and baking soda – which come with less packaging than conventional cleaning products – to clean just about anything. Use undiluted white household vinegar or a paste of baking soda mixed with water.
Avoid excess garbage when gift-giving by wrapping presents in reusable cloth or cloth bags. Often, the best gifts need no wrapping at all.
It takes nearly 1.5 million barrels of oil to produce the 30 million water bottles Americans use annually.
Sunday, May 8, 2011 at 12:00AM Help reduce waste and keep our environment clean by making an effort to reduce, reuse, and recycle plastic grocery bags, keeping them out of the landfills.
earth-friendly, eco-frienfly, environment, go green, green, grocery, plastic bags, recycle, recycling, reuse, sustainable in environment, how-to, recycling Saturday, March 12, 2011 at 12:00PM Say good bye to petroleum based plastic bags from the grocery store. Melissa McGinnis from greenopolis TV suggests the paper bag option (if you forget your reusable totes) since most bags now are made from 100% recycled content.
* recycle, 100%, Green Living, Plastic, bags, earth-friendly, environment, grocery, paper, recycled, reuse, tote in environment, recycling Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 12:00PM Looking for ways to cut down on your water usage? Homeowners Steve and Linda Parker have installed a rainwater catchment system that allows them to collect rainwater to recycle in their California home. Since installing the system they've collected about 3,000 to 4,000 gallons of water to re-use for their laundry and their toilets.
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You will need:
- box cutter
- dish soap
- knife or plastic edge for scraping
- acetone nil polish remover
- cotton ball
earth-friendly, eco-friendly, environment, glass, how-to, jar, label, recycle, remove, reuse, save money in environment, how-to, recycling Monday, February 14, 2011 at 12:10PM Seeing sustainable love? Emory University paleontologist Tony Martin shows you an unsual way to recycle your Valentines so they will last for millennia.
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Don’t automatically discard your morning newspaper. Use it in place of paper towels to clean glass and mirrors (it doesn’t leave streaks!), shred it to make packing material, use it as a fire starter, and wrap gifts with it.
Save plastic produce bags to pick up dog poop, use them as trash bags in your car, and wrap your clothes in them when you travel to protect against dirty shoes and leaking toiletries.
A neat way to store plastic produce bags is to stuff them in an empty cardboard tissue box.
Hold onto greeting cards. Even the craft-challenged can cut up old cards to make gift tags and postcards. Or tear off the cover and use the blank side to write out your to-do list instead of wasting note paper.
Don’t throw out old mousepads. Instead, use them as knee pads when you garden or clean the tub, put them under hot dishes, or cut them into pieces and glue under furniture legs to protect wood floors.
Prepare file folders for reuse in advance by putting a piece of clear tape over the tab before you add a label. When it’s time to store something else in the folder, the old label will peel off easily.
Reuse junk-mail envelopes for your own mail. Just slap a label over the see-through window or pre-printed address. If the envelope has a bar code at the bottom, run a black marker through it.
Don’t dump the water you use to cook vegetables—water your plants with it. Bonus—it’s filled with nutrients!
Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s Day, Americans generate an extra five million tons of trash.
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