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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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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Recycle Your Business

Recycle Your Business...

Think you don’t have the resources to start a new business? Poppycock! Re-use is the hot new business commodity. The business plan for your re-use business starts today. Map out your product, find your resources, and do a product construction blueprint that works for ongoing...
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Reclaim Those Yards

Reclaim Those Yards...

We all see rotting fruit falling from trees all the time but it’s part of our training and society manners not to intrude and mention that fruit is going to waste. Rotting fruit in the heat becomes a germ and bacterial risk. So why have we waited to find a way to save it? Some...
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Call for Green Inventors!

Call for Green Inventor...

Lessened Resources Mean Less Yield Amazon Green is a new category on Amazon.com where all the eco-friendly products that Amazon sells can be located; it’s a handy way to find things. If you would like to find your thing — your time, money, or energy saving invention —...
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Cash for Fridges

Cash for Fridges...

Got a Clunker Refrigerator fouling up the house zen? More recycling programs are lofting their way to the public trough and the leftover fridge is no appliance to be left behind. A $300 million cash-for-clunkers-type federal program to boost sales of energy-efficient home appliances...
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Spare the Landfill, Spoil the Helmet

Spare the Landfill, Spo...

Here is a great list of eco-friendly actions you can take or share with others. Take a look at number 7, reducing sports equipment waste. Ideas for green living 1. Use fish tanks water for plants Do you have a fish or know someone who does? Hang around when they empty their tank...
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Happy Meals from Unhappy Cows

Happy Meals from Unhapp...

There can be no greater wake up call to the exceptionably costly obesity and tainted food supply Americans eat than the TIME magazine article of the August 31, 2009 edition. The real cost of food is our long term health, our short term waistlines, and our middle distance betting...
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Recycling Economics

Recycling Economics...

  The materials needed for recycled projects need to be as reclaimed as possible. But the best kind of recycling is when source materials to begin with are brought from secondary and re-use sources instead of newly manufactured retail sources. More recycling needs to be happening...
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