EARTH FRIENDLY TIDBITS
As I try to green up my life a little at a time I sentiment I would percentage a few more earthy tidbits.
IDEAL Bite off
Here is a website I think is worth signing up with. It's called Ideal Bite and in a nutshell it gives you 'bite-sized' ideas for greener living. When you sign up they send you a daily email with a bit 'green' crest. Their tips so far have been fabulous (physical fitness, solid food, painting rooms etc) merely unlike most other websites I've been happening they don't preach, they just offer a fewer ideas and they score it fun. It's FREE too and you canful besides sign up for 'green' ideas based on where you live – at the moment this is solitary for NY, San Fransisco, Chicago, LA, Seattle, Denver, London and D.C … hopefully they'll add more places.
Rhenium:VOLVE
I was recitation in Rachael Irradiatio magazine today that RE:VOLVE has teamed up with Coca Cola. Apparently apparel is now being made using recycled plastic bottles. So each of the lifelike t-shirts successful away Re:VOLVE keep about 5 plastic bottles out of landfills.
JUNK MAIL CATALOGS
I'm a bit of a detritus mail drug addict – I lovemaking my Pottery Barn Kids catalogue along with a few others and I hold back connected making purchases until I get those terrific coupons from Bath & Body Works and Michaels. I was however getting a little tired of receiving stuff from companies I'd never detected of and never ordered from so I have started emailing them and hazard what, all of the ones I've contacted so far undergo been more than happy to stop sending me stuff in the mail. I explained my take to keep a few trees and to save my mailman's back and they were more than apologetic in their replies to me and were more than happy to let me search their websites for products in the rising instead of receiving catalogues in the mail. So if you are tired of the mountain of paper you receive from each one day, sample contacting the companies directly, hopefully they'll be As happy to oblige as the ones I've contacted.
Cycle TO WORK Daytime
Don't block that tomorrow is 'bike to work sidereal day'. Indeed grow those legs moving and ride to sour or school or just to run few quick errands instead of taking the car. Just think of it this way, you save on gas money, get some exercise, help with the befoulment problem and if you don't give birth too immoderate to go hopefully you'll get to work or school a little faster seeing equally you won't be sitting in traffic.
…. and now I'm off to clean out the 3 kids wardrobes and pack up a handbag of habiliment that they no more fit into to drop off at the soldierly thrift shop class tomorrow.
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Kj English hawthorn 15, 2008 - 5:00 pm
major kudos for emailing the companies and requesting your nominate to equal remote.i sleep with there's a few web sites out there where you can enter your epithet (and variations of it)with your mailing address and they somehow also stop all the junk coming to your house. here's one i randomly ground but i think thither are gobs of others too. i'd love to see someone position others they screw of…HTTP://www.41pounds.org/
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BoufMom9 May 15, 2008 - 5:00 pm
I have been "greening" upfield a little excessively! Thanks for the link to the sites! 🙂
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khat May 15, 2008 - 5:00 pm
You go girl! Widh we had a site for South-Africa. We have started a major paper recycling screw the office – both sides of a sheet must be used before it is placed in the binful for the recysle van to pick up. Heaps of newspaper for the kids to draw on.
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Lisa adenosine monophosphate; Gerald Crataegus oxycantha 15, 2008 - 5:00 pm
Hawaii Tonya Im gladsome to hear that you are as wel Viridity every moment helps! Did you know that water bottles are being made into Brooms ?Yes they are I have few links that I would love to share with you from cleaning tips to reusing tips Beaver State even to get skippes out of Certificate of deposit and Its all safe to use. Delight send me your electronic mail and I would love to send you each the links my email is [email preserved] to you for existence green also !hehehe Bob Hope you have a great weekend girl ! hope to listen from ya before long!
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Harris Boys May 15, 2008 - 5:00 pm
great post. we try to do our second-best, I appreicate the website!!!
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albert amp; angela fontenot May 15, 2008 - 5:00 pm
T,I'm rather proud you. I soh need to become greener but alas my kin remains now responsible the devestation of individual rainforests. Only my kids recycle and they tend to recycle things I'd sort o them non…such arsenic Jackson gets caught recycling his underwear…for some days if you don't catch him. Brandon conserves water system, away attempting to skip out along his every night shower.Seriously, they do recycle soda and beer cans but not for the saki of the major planet…information technology's becasue they save extra $$$ risen for a trip to the movies. Yes, we receive work to do….love,ang
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Sonya May 18, 2008 - 5:00 pm
You are doing a great line of work 'going green'. When I first saw the mercantile for those t-shirts made from Coca Cola bottles, it said they were to be sold at WAlmart…but when I went to find them at the combined in Grossmont "I've never heard of such a mathematical product" is what I got! :)Let me do it if you find any!
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