Recycled Media Bits

Recycled Media Bits...

Here are some quick links to get your organic “on” and sustain some peace of mind while remaining up on all the latest technology. Eco friendly processes and environmental tips can be conslidated to save time. First, a passive warmup with the Scientific American blog...
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Green Can-Do List

Green Can-Do List...

A list of things to do, items to buy, practices to observe and/or communications to make and projects to do  regarding sustainability. 1. Sign the Greenpeace petition Global warming is an environmental crisis the likes of which we’ve never faced before. And given the powerful...
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This Old Recycler

This Old Recycler...

This Old Garden This month’s issue of This Old House has some dynamite ideas for customizing kitchen spaces for less money. But adding in the integrated idea of re-using sustainable materials culled from garage sales, estate sales, curbline cruising and thrift shop junkets,...
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Independence Recycling Tips

Independence Recycling ...

The Independence Day holiday is a weekend traditionally filled with hot dogs, soda pop and potato chips, and the odd athletic contest or two. The tradition of American consumerism intersects the Fourth of July holiday in a sea of plastic cups, styrofoam, fireworks, and package wrapped...
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Sustainability TODAY

Sustainability TODAY...

8 simple things you can do to further sustainability today:   1. A Spot of Gardening Survey your garden and look for a place to put in a temperature reducing plant, vine or trellis climbing bush. Mulch cools the soil and guard from weeds and evaporation. Make a cool space near a...
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Recycled Workstation

Recycled Workstation...

One thing I keep seeing as I trawl waste dumps and recycling stations is a lot of barely worn office equipment of various sizes and shapes. A lot of this stuff is not even worn, it just outlived its usefulness as another business closed down. These types of finishes tend to wear...
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Trade, Borrow or Rent, But Don’t Buy Tools

Trade, Borrow or Rent, ...

Let this be the summer (and fall season) you borrow tools instead of spending a bundle on new mechanized hardware. Times are tough, there’s nothing wrong with offering a borrow or asking a lend on Freecycle or in your neighborhood to see what kinds of things people want in...
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Recycling Training

Recycling Training...

Recycling as an activity can raise money and contribute to a lessened carbon footprint. Incidences that need correcting do crop up, and when they do it is appropriate to step up the communication about green living. The freedom to discard trash is crossed with anti-litter and refuse...
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Green Resume Opportunit...

newspaper If you think your resume is just fine as it is, take another look. See anything green on there? Green is the new network of power and resume screeners know to look for actively involved sustainability projects and re-use, recycling and eco-friendly prospects. Does your...
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How to Shop Green

How to Shop Green...

path to green living Do You Know How To Shop Green? When was the last time you went to the Freecycle pages when you needed something? When was the last time to decided to see if something that was broken could be repaired with a little trouble and research instead of pitching it and...
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