September 25, 2009, Posted by admin at 11:50 am
[In his ongoing but sporadic series Don't Throw That Away!, the Green Cheapskate shows you how to repurpose just about anything, saving money and the environment in the process. Send him your repurposing ideas and challenges, but whatever you do, Don't Throw That Away!]
I’ve always hated those foam packing peanuts that fly out of the
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September 24, 2009, Posted by admin at 3:50 pm
Time was when only two things determined your status in the school cafeteria: the TV character on your lunchbox, and whether you had the year’s coolest, junkiest snack inside.
But in some schools, where kids are thinking about their environmental footprints, coolness is now measured by how “green” your lunch is: Reusable sandwich wraps and water
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September 18, 2009, Posted by admin at 7:07 pm
This article tells you how to recycle a rusty metal thrift shop table for less than $30. Making something pretty out of something ugly is not as hard as you might think. To have a sturdy table for $30 or less is a real bargain.
Some of us just love a recycling challenge. That’s why
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September 18, 2009, Posted by admin at 6:27 pm
More and more these days everyone is talking about going green and becoming more environmentally friendly. You may be wondering how you can do your part. The first thing you can do is to make your home green friendly. Little changes that we can do in our everyday lives make the world of
difference to our
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September 17, 2009, Posted by admin at 7:50 am
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By Harriet Blake
Green Right Now
Daryl Hannah brings a personal sweetness and actor’s intensity to the stage of environmentalism, a term she doesn’t like.
Like many environmental terms — green, eco, sustainability, organic – “companies have co-opted and glommed onto these words,” she told an audience in Fort Worth this week. Luckily, she says the public is
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September 16, 2009, Posted by admin at 11:50 pm
Q. How do I reduce my pet’s carbon footprint?
A. Most pets spend their days focused on three main events — food time, poop time and playtime. If only life could be so easy for their owners. Fortunately, there are easy options that will help reduce their mark on Mother Nature. Make just one of these
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September 15, 2009, Posted by admin at 4:15 pm
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By Shermakaye Bass
Green Right Now
It’s the ecology… That might’ve been the mantra of the early 1990’s (instead of “It’s the economy, stupid!”) if more American public leaders besides Al Gore been heeding environmentalists’ warnings.
But now current films like The Age of Stupid, a terrifying backward glance from future decades, are trying to make up for
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September 15, 2009, Posted by admin at 11:04 am
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By Dan Shapley
How much is a ton of old recycled phones worth? $15,000, thanks to the silver, gold, palladium and copper used in each phone. (That’s about $2.50 in precious metals …
Read the original article at The Daily Green
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September 14, 2009, Posted by admin at 12:02 pm
Going far beyond the organic vegetable garden and playground made from recycled materials, President Barack Obama intends to get the White House LEED certified by the U.S. Green Building Council.
That’s the word from an article on Sierra Club’s Green Home website. From the article:
White House
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September 14, 2009, Posted by admin at 11:02 am
“You don’t have to have a lot of outdoor space or cash to start an organic garden – in fact, if you’ve got a fire escape and some plastic containers in your recycling bin, you can grow everything from fresh greens and tomatoes to a wide array of herbs. Just ask Mike Lieberman, who built
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