Green Baby

Green Baby...

Did you know about the green baby movement? Looking for a great new mom gift or baby shower present but can’t stand the commerce redolent toys and plastic-rich aisles of infant gifts? Choose from among these books and make your next baby shower participants green with envy. Raising...
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Green DIY Super Tips

Green DIY Super Tips...

1. Plastic Liners  Those ever present plastic coated paper liners and packaging dividers that come in everything from frozen cakes to pastries to microwave meals and pizzas can be re-used. Cookie packages and pastry plastics also should be saved. These trays are great organizers...
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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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Craft Fun from Recycling

Craft Fun from Recyclin...

Reduce consumer waste! Get the kids to go on a door to door recycling drive. Ask neighbors for discarded household materials that can be drawn together for a craft day of fun. Here is a list of some of the things thing to look for. Common household items can absorb packaging postconsumer...
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Meeting the Green Challenge

Meeting the Green Chall...

Cotton Onto Recycling Know those cotton balls you pitch when you open a bottle of vitamins or a prescription? Why not save them in a plastic bag and never buy cotton balls again! Cotton grown for these purposes and packaged in plastic requires soil and pesticide usage for tilling...
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Read Your Way to Recycling Junk

Read Your Way to Recycl...

newspaper   One of the ways you can stay motivated with your recycling effort is to scan a  lot of varied periodicals and websites to look for ideas about what to do with found materials for re-use  and repurposing. This might be found in some surprising places. Today’s mass...
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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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Recycle Lookouts...

Want to recycle but just never seem to find anything that appeals? Recycling works backwards. Re-use means you transform something old or used into something new. But the chicken has to come before the egg at some point. You can’t re-use stuff when you don’t know what to look...
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Top Trucking Tips...

garage greening Yes, astonishing as it may seem, a trucking magazine was the eye opening source of some amazing tips I found over the weekend. It seems the many garage bound mechanics and weekend grease monkeys have learned some lightning efficiencies and time saving tips. Here are...
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Recycle That Ladder...

Ladders are the new black. if that doesn’t make sense, carry the one and add in the two…. Everybody is saying green is the new black. That might be the case, but sometimes something somewhere,  somehow,  has got to give. The home sometimes need something …new. It...
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