Recycling Is Peanuts

Recycling Is Peanuts...

  green solutions           If there is one Great Blog to link to, it’s Jeff Yeager’s Cheapskate Blog. Spending less money is sustainable. Find ways to save money, reduce consumption, educate others, and learn new ways to recycle and re-use stuff you’d otherwise...
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Getting Crafty...

Turn off the boob tube this winter and get crafty. Stop using electricity and start a regeneration curve happening. Re-use thrift shop and discard items in utility crafts. Make gifts or just household helps. Assemble discard items in bulk or just work with shapes of tin, glass, aluminum...
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The New Hot Mess

The New Hot Mess...

Solar Powered Garbage compactors live up to their billing. More and more municipal areas are purchasing these units to crumple garbage without electricity and utilize solar power in yet one more way to keep the earth green and sustainable. The cordless solar power waste compactor...
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No Impact Man…

No Impact Man…...

The average American generate 1600 pounds of garbage a year. Try to imagine no electricity, no TV, an experiment in extreme no impact consumerism. No plastic razors and and no soda pop. Can people do it? Can people living in New York City do it? For a year? Eating nutritionally...
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Top 100 Green Companies

Top 100 Green Companies...

The recent issue of Newsweek has on its cover the top 100 green companies. This list is headed by Hewlett Packard, Dell, and many other familiar names. Even Starbucks cracked the top ten. But the really interesting reading comes when you read how they arrived at the rankings. Why...
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Unlearning Consumerism

Unlearning Consumerism...

I was scanning Stephanie Kaza’s excellent book “Mindfully Green” and an operative key phrase popped out. Unlearning Consumerism is the class we all need to take. The current generation of Western cultural residents have grown up in plenitude and conspicuous consumption. Pride...
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Warcraft the unGreenest of All

Warcraft the unGreenest...

Momma, don’t let your babies grow up to play Warcraft.   If there is a mother, father, grandparent, or caregiver whose child is learning or participating in Warcraft, apply a magnet to their computer, snip the power cord, and press a curling iron against the CPU of the respective...
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Recyclo Journalism

Recyclo Journalism...

I’ll say this for the quality of journalism that hath not strained in previous decades to cover recycling or environmental issues except as onetime features or special pieces. If you grew in the 1970’s the general information pieces were not nearly as science informed...
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Free Eco Movies in Santa Monica

Free Eco Movies in Sant...

Winner of the best documentary audience award at Sundance. The most hopeful movie of the year. “Fuel”. Gates open at 7pm. Movies start after dusk. Chairs, blankets and kids are welcome. Sorry, no alcohol allowed. Time: September 25, 2009 from 7pm to 11pm Location: Santa...
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Go Green At Work List

Go Green At Work List...

Turn off the lights when you’re leaving any room for 15 minutes or more and utilize natural light when you can. Buy low economy approved appliances purposefully designed  which use at least 2/3 less energy than regular lighting, and install timers or motion sensors that...
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