Froogle

Froogle...

equipment Did you forget to Froogle today? Froooooooooogle! Do you know what Froogle is? Froogle is not a frog-based search engine, but a frugal shopper’s index of shopping and vendor sites and locations for a given item. Froogle is of course a synonym for frugal. And getting...
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A recycling Scorecard...

path to green living     Print out this Recycling Scorecard and go around your house. Give yourself a recycling grade. Five or more “Yes” answers mean you are on track. Less than 4 out of ten of “yes” means you need some serious home greening. 1. Recycling...
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12 things Californians ...

I just looked through “15 simple things Californians can Do To Recycle ” by the Earth Works Group. Here are a dozen ways to recycle. 1. Find out how much a community pays for their police department versus their waste management recycling. 2. Check buildings you visit...
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Best Buy Recycling...

Best Buy has a recycling program worth noting. The electronics monolith has been accepting two donations a day and issuing gift cards for the amounts since February. Considering how many end pieces of hardware out of use people have at home, recycling programs like this one make...
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8 recycling uses for newspaper

8 recycling uses for ne...

newspaper The newspaper recycling revolution starts today. Creep around your neighbor’s back doorstep and appropriate this unwanted landfill fodder as the golden mean of recycling power today! 1. Mulch That’s right, newspaper is a mulch gulch of flower power. Mulch out...
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Green Knitbooking!...

The gift I really want for Christmas is a netbook bag. Netbooks are small laptops which are under three pounds and are about the size of one third a graham cracker box. Recycling Inspiration strikes!!! But the cases sold for netbooks look either like space pods, don’t have enough...
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7 New Tech Ways to Recy...

Want to save money and power? Trying to cut back on Unnecessary consumption? Looking to re-use whenever possible? Here are seven sneaky ways to recycle using new technology. 1. Use your laptop as a heater. That old super heating thigh cooker makes a dandy small room heater when working...
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Seniors can Reduce with...

  Reduce Space The primary reduction motive of sustainability is to reduce consumer habits and energy and nonrenewable resource consumption. But the home building and expansion frenzy of recent years can mean many homes are too overvalued to sell, to overpriced to buy and too over-financed...
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Roll Up Your Sleeves &#...

  Take a look at what kind of opportunities there are for you to recycle around the house. Look for things you throw out and analyze how much of this you could be reducing. But also the responsibility for green living occurs when dining out. Commercial and retail standards are notoriously...
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Recycling without Being Aware of it

Recycling without Being...

ceramic I have been playing a game of eye spy with some relatives and they look to be setting the gold standard for re-use and recycling. They seem to have a lot of it down pat.   They don’t dry clean. They don’t lug heavy bags by the dozen every week to the curb....
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