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"Good Morning America's" Sam Champion shares with admirers "just one thing" they can do to acquire a added environmentally affable lifestyle.
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Nov. 7, 2008You can abate the bulk of debris you aftermath and save your pocketbook at the aforementioned time by reusing and recycling accepted domiciliary items. Analysis the tips below.
Since they booty up so abundant landfill space, some municipalities crave you to recycle them. Alike if it's not required, amuse recycle because Americans bandy abroad about 20 actor mattresses anniversary year, and altruistic or recycling agency abate landfills.
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Recyclers can abstracted the fiber, foam, animate and copse for remanufacturing, including authoritative new mattresses. To recycle your mattress, analysis with the abundance breadth you're affairs your new mattress to see if it offers donation or recycling casework for your old one.
Also, you can go to Apple 911 and blazon in mattress and your zip cipher to acquisition a adjacent recycling drop-spot.
You additionally can use Craigslist and freecycle.org to annual your mattress for chargeless and affairs are accession will appetite it.
Please apple-pie your mattress afore altruistic it or if you buy a acclimated mattress, accomplish abiding you apple-pie it. Additionally put a ambiguous artificial mattress awning over a acclimated mattress to assure from bedbugs.
Click actuality to apprentice how to apple-pie your mattress afore altruistic it.
Most carpeting is fabricated from petroleum, which is a nonrenewable resource. So, you should anticipate about re-using carpet.
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Some non-profit organizations such as Habitat for Humanity acquire about apple-pie carpeting for reuse. You additionally can reclaim carpeting at home for attic mats and runners, cat abrading posts, and to alike asphyxiate weeds in your garden instead of pesticides.
Check out Apple 911 and access "carpet" and your zip to acquisition a adjacent recycler.
Technotrash is a about new blazon of waste, which consists of old computers and computer-related abstracts printers including CDs, adamantine drives, zip disks, billowing disks, anachronistic corpuscle phones, rechargeable batteries, abandoned printer cartridges and all the cables, cords, chips and boards.
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The items are difficult to recycle and added than 90 percent of technotrash is not beng recycled. Abounding don't apperceive how to appropriately actuate of it.
There are two actual important affidavit to recycle your technotrash. First, recycling keeps your cyberbanking waste, some of which contains chancy material, out of landfills. Secondly, recycling your technotrash with GreenDisk is for aloofness protection.
For added information, analysis out www.idealbite.com
Oct. 22, 2008
Keeping your baptize balmy this winter can bulk a lot of green, whether it's money or the environment.
A approved tank-type baptize boiler burns gas all day, every day so that you can acquire hot baptize whenever you allegation it. That requires a lot of energy, abnormally because the tanks are ample and backpack about 50 gallons of baptize that needs to be heated.
A tankless baptize heater, on the added hand, alone burns gas aback you are absolutely application hot water. Aback you aren't, the catchbasin shuts down, so it's not crumbling any energy. Tankless baptize heaters are already in 95 percent of homes in Europe and Asia.
According to the Administration of Energy, baptize heating represents about 20 percent of residential action afire -- authoritative it the third-largest action end use in homes.
By artlessly switching to a tankless baptize heater, homeowners can save up to 50 percent on the baptize heating allocation of their annual gas bill.
Homeowners can about compensate their upfront costs in bristles years.
Check out these links for added information:
http://www.tanklesswaterheaterguide.com/
http://www.aceee.org/consumerguide/waterheating.htm
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Oct. 16, 2008
Halloween is a time to affright your adolescent man, but it is additionally a time that can be alarming to the environment.
According to the Civic Retail Federation, aftermost year Americans spent added than $5 billion on candy, apparel and decorations for Halloween. The anniversary bliss off a actual careless season: Amid Thanksgiving and New Year's, domiciliary decay increases by added than 25 percent.
But the Civic Geographic Blooming Adviser has a few quick, accessible and able tips to barrier your decay while advancement that Halloween spookishness.
Click actuality to analysis out the Civic Geographic Blooming Guide.
Tip 1: Accomplish Up
Use what you acquire about the abode instead of affairs biologic abundance or Halloween abundance articles that are acclimated already or alert and tossed out by abutting year.
If you're action to buy new, buy architecture you will use throughout the year. Amoebic and earth-friendly types are consistently a acceptable choice.
Pur Minerals eye adumbration articles are chargeless of talc, actinic dyes, petroleum-based oils and filters (good for authoritative bruises!) and the amalgamation is recyclable.
Lipstick and lip appearance from Burt's Bees accommodate alone accustomed ingredients. Tubes articular as #5 or #7 are recyclable.
Tip 2: Costumes
Use what you acquire instead of affairs the pre-packaged Halloween apparel that tend to be fabricated with acrid fabrics and plastics and will acceptable end up in the dumpster afterwards Halloween.
Costume pieces begin in mom or dad's closet do not actualize any waste.
Tip 3: Use What's Burst or Recyclable
You can use an old burst umbrella, a atramentous reusable chaplet and agenda aerial to actualize your actual own bat costume.
The umbrella's metal skeleton can additionally be recycled as atom metal.
Cardboard, non-toxic water-based paint, reusable argent chaplet and recyclable aluminum antithesis antennas are all you allegation to accomplish a admirable butterfly costume.
Oct. 9, 2008
Hybrid cars may be added accepted for a added eco-conscious society, but purchasing one isn't applied change for everyone. Instead, you can acquisition agency to barrier your gas afire with your accepted agent and accompany in big accumulation — upwards of $1,000 annually.
So you can save money and advice the environment, too. Analysis out the tips beneath for added advice and appointment www.idealbite.com's Go Blooming and Save Gas folio for added suggestions.
Under-inflated tires abatement gas breadth up to 10 percent. A motorist that drives an boilerplate of 12,000 afar annually on tires that are under-inflated wastes up to 50 gallons of gasoline. That's about $200 a year.
Experts appraisal 66 actor cartage acquire under-inflated tires, crumbling about 3 billion gallons of gas a year -- a amazing $9.5 billion at today's prices.
Check annoy burden afore you leave the driveway. Burden increases aback the car has been on the alley for a while, but afresh drops aback the tires air-conditioned down.
Change the air filter.
A bedraggled one can bulk up to 7 percent of your gas mileage. If you're active a car that commonly gets 20 afar per gallon, a car with a bedraggled clarify gets 18.6 MPG.
A acceptable aphorism of deride is to analysis your air clarify every time you analysis your oil. Over 10,000 miles, that's an added 38 gallons of gas, which, with gas at $4 per gallon, costs you about $150.
Stop idling.Every day Americans decay about 4 actor gallons of gas idling.
Idling gets you 0 afar per gallon. Afterwards 30 seconds, dabbling to "warm up" the car alone wastes ammunition and increases emissions. In fact, dabbling wastes about a quart of ammunition every 15 annual That's $1 ashen every 15 minutes.
If you abate your dabbling by 15 annual a week, in a year, you can save about $50. Not alone will you be extenuative fuel, you will additionally abbreviation abrasion and breach on engines as able-bodied as allowance to advance the air quality.
Control A/C use.
Avoid advancing active and accidental cargo.Driving evidently could save you $300 annually, and by ditching the added burden you could abridged accession $45 a year.
Oct. 2, 2008
When it comes to magazines and newspapers there is an ecology affair abaft anniversary issue.
The Facts:
Anniversary cardboard is fabricated of mostly abstinent fiber. Beneath than bristles percent of anniversary cardboard has any recycled content. As a aftereffect about 35,000 copse are cut bottomward anniversary year to aftermath magazines.
Best anniversary affidavit acquire been albino with chlorine or chlorine compounds, which produces baneful dioxin.
About 90 percent of all magazines are alone with in a year and alone about 44 percent are recycled.
Over 60 actor newspapers are printed in the U.S. per day and 44 actor are befuddled away.
What You Can Do:
A acceptable addition to cardboard magazines is to subscribe to them on-line extenuative copse and ink.
A abundant aggregation alleged Zinio has put out the babble to access customer acquaintance of the agenda annual addition and get affiliation to subscribe to their admired magazines on-line. Some accommodating titles are Elle, Redbook, and Business Week. The agenda prices are about according to or beneath than a cardboard subscription. Get added advice by visiting zinio.com or GoReadGreen.com.
Newspapers.com has links to over 10,000 U.S. and apple bi-weekly web sites. You can apprehend the banderole belief or subscribe to the on-line versions of your admired paper. Bang actuality to go to newspapers.com.
Analysis out cyberbanking readers. At 9 oz. and with a 6 in. display, the Sony PRS-505 displays on "electronic paper" that is accessible on the eyes. An chip on-line EBook abundance has 30,000 titles accessible for download and anamnesis can abundance up to 160 books. Price: $299 on SonyStyle.com.
Accession cyberbanking reader, the Amazon Kindle, has added than 180,000 books, blogs, newspapers and magazines available. At 10.3 oz. the clairvoyant can authority up to 200 titles and has wireless connectivity that allows you to boutique at the Kindle Abundance anon from the Kindle. Books are auto-delivered in beneath than a minute. Price: $359 on Amazon.com.
Sept. 25, 2008
In this chapter of "Just One Thing," Sam took aim at recycling printer cartridges. Rather than throwing abroad printer cartridges, companies and families can recycle them through companies like Cartridge Apple USA.
Not alone does recycling cartridges advice the environment, but it additionally saves some austere cash. You can save up to 30% by refilling cartridges instead of affairs cast new ones.
Click actuality to get added advice on Cartridge Apple USA and arch to Earth911.org to acquisition recycling areas abreast you.
Sept. 4, 2008
When arcade for aback to school, it's important to be acquainted of what your purchasing, not alone for the annual of the apple but for your kids' health. Kick this academy year off with an eco-friendly approach. Follow the tips beneath and your academy year can be greener.
Avoid vinyl wherever possible. Vinyl can be attenuated with advance and additionally releases hormone-disrupting phthalates.
Create a convalescent classroom. Classrooms don't consistently acquire able blast and a cardinal of art aliment acquire aerial levels of VOCs (or airy amoebic compounds) that abrade respiratory tracts and annual headaches. Attending on the amalgamation for the AP label, which agency the artefact contains no capacity begin chancy by a toxicologist. Buy low-odor markers (Colorific, Mr. Sketch Unscented, and Crayola Washable)
Use low-dust chalk. AusPen refillable white-board markers are a apple-pie addition accepted disposable. They are fabricated from 100 percent recycled material; they are recyclable and refillable. Anniversary pen and canteen of ink represents 40 markers. AusPen is not fabricated with adverse chemicals.
Conventional white-board markers are one of the top sources of baneful decay for schools and offices because they use xylene, which can annual headaches and blackout at aerial levels — not to acknowledgment white-board markers clog the landfills and will never biodegrade.
Choose binders, notebooks and lined cardboard fabricated from post-consumer recycled product. Recycology highlighters are fabricated from 50 percent post-recycled actual and are refillable.
For added advice on blooming classroom products, appointment www.thegreenguide.com.
Aug. 28, 2008
Solar alfresco lighting is actual low-maintenance -- it lets the sun do the assignment for you. You don't acquire to anguish about electricity bills and it is abundantly accessible and safe to install.
Solar lighting works by charging the LED batteries during the day, autumn the solar action in the LED batteries and anecdotic your garden or backyard in the evening. These lights acquire photocell technology that activates the LED lights automatically at dusk, burns throughout the night and recharges during the day. The action bulk of these solar lights is at atomic 50,000 hours, and batteries about aftermost about two years.
The anniversary Affluence recommends these options:
Inwood Solar Lights from Grandinroad action a bendable afterglow and acquire a abundant solar value. This mural lighting adds amore for beneath than $10 apiece. A distinct LED illuminates for up to 10 hours at night afterwards a day of sun. Replacing 10 lights with these solar lights will accompany you up to 90 percent in action accumulation over halogen or beaming bulbs. Costs $99 for 10 lights.
Hampton Bay Three-Tier Metal Solar Ablaze from Home DepotThis is a distinct ablaze white LED ablaze provides affluence of ablaze -- added than best solar lights. Replacing six electrical lights with six solar lights will save $22 a year in electrical bills. Costs $50 for a amalgamation of six.
Covington Solar Ablaze Set 4-Pack eatures a arctic canteen lens and an amber LED Light. Provided eight to 10 hours of black beam aback absolutely charged. A set of these four solar lights in abode of four electrical lights will save added than 400 pounds of carbon emissions a year. It's $35 for set of four lights
Fiji Bake Garden Ablaze from SolarLightStore.com are fun accents for any garden or backyard. They are abundant eco-alternatives to acceptable citronella torches, accouterment a affable ambient light, and they add a close feel, with three altered acme options Recharges during the day, turns on automatically at night.
Replacing four candle ablaze torches with four solar bake lights saves carbon emissions -- these afford aught carbon aback in use against the bulk of carbon abounding from a afire flame. It's $80 for set of two lights and $140 for set of four.
Stainless Animate Beveled Wedge Ablaze Set from Target can be a chic accession to any yard. Fabricated from aluminum with stainless animate finish, the lights will not rust. It's $45 for six lights.
Replacing six electrical emphasis lights such as these will save about $60 a year in electricity against a low-voltage electric emphasis light.
Aug. 7, 2008
On average, anniversary American buys 48 new pieces of new accouterment and throws abroad 68 pounds of old accouterment a year.
How can you breach eco-friendly while you're out arcade for new abatement fashions? Well, you adeptness appetite to anticipate about "recycling" and "reusing." With a little advice from the Civic Geographic Blooming Guide, we'll appearance you how to blooming your apparel with environmentally-friendly best clothing.
Recycle Your Own Closet Accord or advertise your old and exceptionable clothes. You can accomplish some added money or acquire acclaim for new recycled fashions at resale shops. Recycling your closet saves you money and offers a "new-to-you" apparel that has already paid its ecology debt.
Shop for Best Clothes Boutique for best accouterment at shops, online, adjacency flea markets and acreage sales. Arcade at best and assignment aliment is already growing at a clip of 5 percent per year, according to the Civic Affiliation of Resale and Austerity Shops. You can additionally arrest your parents' closets.
Host a Clothes Bandy Host a accouterment bandy at your home or office. Acquire anybody go through their closets and accompany in gently-worn items they've outgrown, developed annoyed of or maybe never alike worn. (Everyone has at atomic one annual blind in the closet with the tags still on it.) Sort through and acquire anybody who contributed to the accumulation of clothes baddest new items. It's a abundant way to brace your apparel with accouterment that's already paid its carbon debt. It's additionally a fun way to get together. Accompany can vote on who looks best in apparel or items that added than one actuality covets. Booty any assortment to a bounded Goodwill or donation site.
Miscellaneous facts:Cotton accounts for beneath than 3 percent of farmed land, but according to Panna.org, all-around affection assembly uses added than 10 percent of the world's pesticides and 25 percent of its insecticides.
Americans bandy abroad added than 68 pounds of accouterment and bolt per actuality per year, and accouterment and added bolt represent about 4 percent of the weight and 8 percent of the aggregate of borough solid decay in the U.S. This bulk is rapidly growing.
Calm resale has boomed in the era of the Internet. Abounding bodies advertise anon to added individuals through bargain Web sites such as eBay. Accession added accepted aperture is assignment and austerity shops, breadth sales are growing at a clip of 5 percent per year, according to the Civic Affiliation of Resale and Austerity Shops.
July 17, 2008
Did you apperceive that aback you appointment a car wash, you use 45 gallons of baptize per wash, against the 80 to 140 gallons of baptize per home wash? Abrasion commercially can conserve added water. And if you go to a car ablution that uses recycled water, you can conserve alike added water.
But, if you adulation to ablution your car at home- or aren't anywhere abreast a car wash, actuality are two articles you can use to conserve water.
Water Extenuative Corrupt NozzlePrice: $5-$15A archetypal garden corrupt can breeze at over twelve gallons per minute. Application a water-saving corrupt bill lets the user baddest how abundant baptize is appear from a full-force aerosol to a baptize extenuative mist.
Lucky Apple Waterless Car WashPrice: $16.99 per canteen (comes to $2-$3 per wash)This artefact uses amoebic cleaners to deliquesce dirt, and it's abundant to use with the accomplished ancestors because it's non-toxic. You can additionally use this appropriate in your garage.
It cleans all solid surfaces such as paint, glass, fiberglass, artificial and chrome. Containing amoebic soaps/surfactants and added high-quality amoebic ingredients, it can be acclimated on a wet or dry surface. It dissolves adobe and creates a non-stick surface.
This artefact can be purchased at baddest Accomplished Foods or Ace Hardware Aliment Civic or online.
And remember? a lot of adobe can be done off of a car by artlessly absolution it sit alfresco in the rain. And aback abrasion at home, application a brazier rather than a active hose- except for the final rinse- will save a lot added water.
July 3, 2008
Boating is a admired summer action but isn't so accessible on the environment. The Web armpit www.GreenBoating.com has tips for "green boating" as able-bodied as examples of boats that acquire the atomic ecology impact.
June 24, 2008
The boilerplate domiciliary spends $1,900 on action costs annually — about bisected of which is anon accompanying to heating and cooling. One way to ensure that your home's action costs breach in analysis while additionally acceptable the ambiance is to install and affairs a agenda thermostat.
With the able settings, households can save up to $180 a year on action bills, according to Action Star. In accession to extenuative you money, application beneath action helps abate greenhouse gas emissions, and these thermostats accommodate no mercury like some beforehand models that may be in your home.
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Here are some brands that could accumulate your abode and the planet at the appropriate temperature.
Price: $29Features: If you're attractive to artlessly acquire the temperature defined for weekday against weekend, this is the thermostat for you. Set the levels for sleep, actuality awake, abrogation and sleeping for Monday-Friday instead of Saturday-Sunday, as able-bodied as for vacation; you can temporaraily override settings. Affectation is agenda and settings acquire buttons.
Price: $34.97Features: You can actualize your settings specific to Monday-Friday, and acquire a altered ambience for anniversary Saturday and Sunday for affiliation who adeptness not acquire the aforementioned agenda Saturday and Sunday. Affectation is digital.
Price: $100This archetypal can be set for anniversary alone day of the week. It additionally has a authority affection that you can set to authority the temperature for how abounding canicule you will be gone for. This archetypal has not alone a agenda affectation but additionally a actual acceptable blow awning that makes it accessible and simple to bulk out how to program. (Honeywell additionally makes a bartering adaptation for your abode of business). Bang actuality to apprentice how to install your thermostat.
The best abject temperature in the summer is 78 degrees for your air conditioner, according to Action Star. The guidelines for extenuative money and action from the EPA for are:
Lower the temperature by 8 degrees aback you're abroad or sleeping in the winter.
Raise the temperature ambience by 7 degrees aback you're abroad and 4 degrees aback you're comatose in the summer.
Save alike added by application the "vacation" and "hold" appearance to administer temperatures.
Check out the links beneath for added information.
Programmable Thermostats
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Energy Star's Change the Apple program
June 5, 2008
Summer's sunshine agency a blitz to the bank for many. But afore hitting the bank and surf, analysis out agency you can accomplish your beach-time fun added eco-friendly.
And for added summer-green accessory picks, analysis out www.plentymag.com.
These water-resistant accoutrements run from $95-$185. The abiding backpack alongs are the absolute abode to abundance your bank must-haves. The totes appear in a array of sizes and are accessible in several colors.
Check out www.seabags.com for added information.
Eton radios acquiesce you to accouter the adeptness of the sun for your radio. Alignment from $50-$150, the radio is a way to acquire to your admired tunes while sitting on the bank and still actuality acceptable the environment.
The self- and solar-powered accessory is bunched abundant to booty anywhere. It additionally has a flashlight, emergency alarm and siren.
Plus, you can use it to allegation your corpuscle buzz or Mp3 player.
For added advice go to www.etoncorp.com.
Protecting yourself from damaging UV application is a must, but the ample bulk of sunscreen tourists alike into the baptize maybe the annual of apricot bleaching.
For an eco-friendly addition anatomy of sun protection, try accustomed sunscreens, like Nature's Gate, Korres or Dr. Hauschka. The mineral-based articles actualize a concrete barrier to reflect adverse UVA and UVB application off the anatomy afterwards the chemicals of added sun protectors.
What's a bank day breach afterwards toys for the little ones? Now parents who appetite safe, eco-friendly toys for their kids' bank and cream time can try out the Bank Play Set from Blooming Toys.
The toys use recycled milk containers as their capital accretion and the Bank Play Set bulk $20. For added advice go to www.greentoys.com.
May 19, 2008
Avoid baneful aerosol carpet-cleaner chemicals and try a beef cleaner on your rugs and carpets instead.
You can't abstain spills, but by allotment beef charwoman you can abstain adverse acknowledgment to accepted charwoman chemicals such as perchloroethylene ("perc"), and accumulate them from catastrophe up in groundwater, too.
The International Agency for Research on Blight says perc is a "probable beastly carcinogen." According to the Ecology Aegis Agency, the admeasurement of any bloom furnishings from perc acknowledgment depends on the bulk of perc and how continued the acknowledgment lasts. Bodies apparent to aerial levels of perc, alike for abrupt periods, may acquaintance austere symptoms, alignment from blackout to death.
The cancer-causing abeyant of perc has been abundantly investigated. In class studies, perc has been apparent to annual blight in rats and mice aback they blot or drag it.
There is additionally evidence, from several studies of workers in the laundry and dry charwoman industry, suggesting a causal affiliation amid perc acknowledgment and animated risks of assertive types of cancer.
Instead of risking exposure, try these alternatives, recommended by IdealBite.com:
Hoover SteamVac, $109: able home cleaner.
Shark Beef Mop, $80-$105: easy-to-control beef cleaner with reusable charwoman pads. Additionally try a Shark Ultra Beef Blaster for dirtier carpets.
AFM SafeChoice Carpeting Shampoo, $8/32 ounces: an eco-alternative to charwoman liquids that ups the capability of your beef cleaner.
Also try application domiciliary capacity to apple-pie carpeting stains: Club soda removes red wine stains. Use an ice cube to amalgamate gum and candle wax, afresh scrape off. Sprinkle anointed stains with baking soda, blah starch or blah meal. Let angle six hours or overnight. Afresh vacuum. Mix 1/3 cup alkali with 2/3 cup balmy baptize and administer to the stain. Afresh blemish with a apple-pie anhydrate and echo until the stain comes clean.
Click actuality for added advice from the U.S. Administration of Bloom and Beastly Casework about the assurance of your domiciliary products.
May 14, 2008
Is your mailbox abounding with bells invitations? If you acquire a lot of gift-giving to do during this summer of love, why not accord blooming -- beautiful, beautiful adeptness that the brace will adulation that are earth-friendly.
Courtesy of Civic Geographic's Blooming Adviser magazine, actuality are some abundant annual for eco-chic bells adeptness that are abiding to be a hit.
High-EndThe Schlossberg Switzerland Millennium Anhydrate Accumulating are fabricated from 100 percent copse lurid from well-managed forests and bulk $101. To acquirement online: http://www.harrislevy.com/new/For abundance retailers: http://www.bonswit.com/
Mid-RangeA Atramentous & Decker 8-cup thermal stainless animate coffeemaker is earth-friendly because it keeps the coffee hot afterwards crumbling action to calefaction the abating bowl and retails for $59.99.
Transglass Vases and Glasses fabricated from recycled beer and wine bottles, run amid $42 and $72 each. http://www.greenglass.com/http://www.artecnicainc.com/
On a BudgetAnfora glasses are additionally fabricated from recycled abstracts and a set of six glasses costs aloof $23.70.
O-K Kitchen amoebic affection bowl towels and potholders are fabricated from affection that is developed afterwards petroleum-based fertilizers and pesticides and they're packaged in 100 percent recycled paper. Application a bolt instead of a disposable cardboard anhydrate is an aberrant way to be green, and these will bulk you alone $12 each. http://www.exclusivelygreenmarket.com/viewContent.asp?idpage=11
Umbra annual frames are fabricated from plantation-grown rubberwood, which is harvested from elastic copse that acquire accomplished the ends of their advantageous lives; accomplished with water-based (not petroleum-based) finishes. The Cheeto and Etz frames run aloof $19 each. http://www.umbra.com/
And a brace of added sites for acceptable blooming ideas: http://www.thebigday.com/ and http://www.felicite.com/
April 29, 2008
We appetite our ambience to be ablaze and light. But how to do it affordably, with the atomic appulse on the environment? L.E.D lights are the newest eco-friendly alternative.
Used in flat-screen TV's, these cool, white bulbs are now acclimated in accustomed home lights to save action and money. L.E.Ds, which agency ablaze abounding diodes, use 80 percent beneath action than a approved bulb, and are safer and added action able than those chicken bunched fluorescents.
Plus, they attending great.
Click actuality to analysis out LED ablaze articles from www.TheLEDLight.com.
Click actuality to analysis out LED ablaze articles from www.CCrane.com.
Click actuality to acquisition out added about L.E.D. articles on www.Energizer.com.
April 23, 2008
You've heard all about brown-bagging it. Now we're action to appearance you how to green-bag it!
Today on "Good Morning America," accounts authority and bestselling columnist David Bach aggregate a lunchtime tip that's not alone acceptable for the planet, but additionally acceptable for your wallet, from his new book "Go Green, Live Rich."
Consider your accustomed "litter factor" and acquire a reusable cafeteria bag.
Every weekday about 44 actor American workers acquirement or eat cafeteria out. Every year 1.8 actor accoutrements of takeout containers and accoutrement end up in landfills.
In fact, the boilerplate American appointment artisan goes through about 500 disposable cups over the advance of 12 months. Americans alike bung out abundant cardboard and artificial cups, forks and spoons every year to amphitheater the equator 300 times.
If you were to accompany your cafeteria every day for a anniversary (assuming you blot about $9/day = $45/week = $2,250/year), afresh collectively our planet could be adored from the millions of besmirched containers and your wallet could be adored some green.
Check out these eco-friendly options for accretion your lunch:
Built NY Cafeteria Totes:A lightweight, flexible, cloistral cafeteria and tote bag series. As applied for an alfresco chance as it is for commuting to the office. Bang actuality to appointment www.BuiltNY.com.
To-Go Ware Cafeteria KitThe To-Go Ware stainless animate carrier with bamboo apparatus set includes all you allegation for a meal on the go. Additionally includes a accessible disposable bowl that functions as a lid for the basal container, so it's abundant for both hot and algid food, and for befitting them separate. Bang actuality to appointment www.to-goware.com.
Tiffin Cafeteria Box Set:These Indian-inspired tiered aliment carriers are additionally fabricated from stainless steel. They are 100 percent recyclable, air-conditioned accessible to clean, about unbreakable, and accomplish a abundant addition to disposable artificial or cardboard containers. Bang actuality to acquisition out added on www.DWR.com.
April 22, 2008
Did you apperceive that up to 50 percent of the baptize we use gets put in our lawns and gardens?
Joe Lamp'l, columnist of "The Blooming Gardener's Guide," abutting Sam Champion in annual of Apple Day to allotment his tips for attention baptize in your garden.
One of the best agency to conserve baptize is by replacing agog plants with added drought-tolerant ones.
Instead of water-loving French or Mophead hydrangeas, Lamp'l appropriate viburnums, which allegation 50 percent beneath water.
Instead of the accepted coleus, try Joseph's covering (Amaranthus tricolor) for bright anniversary foliage.
Instead of moisture-dependent Japanese iris (Iris kaempheri) try drought-tolerant day lilies (Hemerocallis).
Choose soaker hoses or dribble irrigation that use 50 percent beneath baptize than sprinkles.
Water in the aboriginal morning or evening, rather than during the calefaction of the day, aback as abundant as 50 percent of the baptize is absent to evaporation.
Use admixture to abate evaporation. It additionally moderates adobe temperatures, discourages weeds and reduces actinic needs.
Encourage abysmal roots. Baptize beneath often, but boring and for best periods, acceptance plants several canicule to dry. This abysmal basis arrangement will sustain plants best amid watering.
Click actuality to acquisition out added on Joe's website: www.JoeGardener.com.
Click actuality to apprehend added about 'The Blooming Gardener's Guide.'
Sam was additionally abutting today by accouchement from the Civic Parks alignment to advice bless Civic Park Week. Their Aboriginal Bloom activity uses built-in plants to advice kids affix to their civic parks and to their own backyards. Bang actuality to apprentice added about the Civic Park Foundation.
April 8, 2008
Next time you're out arcade for new affable and baking essentials, accede attractive for articles that are fabricated from recycled actual and are recyclable. Preparing and autumn aliment creates a lot of waste, and not aloof from the added aliment that gets tossed in the decay bin.
Preserve
Instead of wood, Preserve's Recycline Paperstone acid lath is fabricated from 100 percent post-consumer recycled paper, which saves trees, of course.
Its basal apparent is knife-friendly and non-porous, which agency it's acceptable for acid fruits, vegetables, meats, anything. Its petroleum-free blanket is accessible to clean. Plus, this lath is advised to last, which like annihilation that doesn't allegation to be replaced, additionally makes it kinder to the environment.
Preserve additionally makes aliment accumulator containers, ceramics and tumblers, which are all dishwasher safe.
Click actuality to analysis out Preserve's products.
If You Care
If You Affliction aluminum antithesis is produced with 95 percent beneath action than accepted antithesis because it's fabricated from 100 percent recycled aluminum. Plus, it can be recycled again.
If you're a baker, you adeptness appetite to accede baking cups fabricated from agrarian paper, which agency no chlorine is acclimated in the action of authoritative them. If You Affliction cups are fabricated from recycled cardboard and are biodegradable.
Click actuality to appointment IfYouCare.com.
Chef's Select
Another addition for wrapping up your aliment is Chef's Baddest 100 percent accustomed soy wax paper. It' not absolutely edible, but it's non-toxic and biodegradable.
Click actuality to appointment ChefsSelect.com.
March 27, 2008
Today we accompany you a few eco-decorating tips from our accompany at "Glamour" magazine.
Take these tips to accord the apartment in your home a facelift while sparing the earth.
Eco-friendly autogenous paintsConventional acrylic is boxy on the ambiance and releases airy amoebic compounds which accord to calm air abuse and arena akin ozone.If you appetite a abundant eco-friendly acrylic in one covering for those quick projects, try the new Benjamin Moore's "Aura" line. It bound and calmly covers your walls. The VOC akin is appreciably low at 50 grams per liter, while federal regulations acquiesce for up to 250 grams per liter for collapsed paint.Sherwin Williams' Harmony Band uses acceptable raw abstracts like soy and sunflower oil in the paints, are low in odor, and acquire lower levels of VOC's than acceptable paint. Olympic Paints, awash alone at Lowe's, has aught VOC and dries with no abiding odor.
Eco-friendly wallpaperStandard wallpaper has vinyl apparatus that are not biodegradable, so try and acquisition wallpapers fabricated with eco-friendly materials. Brewster Wallcovering Company's Dalia accumulating is eco-friendly because it is fabricated from a non-woven material, which is cardboard based and biodegradable.
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March 19, 2008
Most of us acquire some affectionate of claimed electronics with us all the time -- corpuscle phones, iPods, laptops and so on. Charging all of them takes time and, of course, energy.
Watch "Good Morning America" March 20 to see Sam Champion acknowledge all the latest in solar-powered accessories.
Try one of these solar-paneled packs so that you can be blooming aback you're on the go.
Each bag soaks up the sun, axis it into apple-pie action to adeptness up about any device.
Eclipse Solar Camera Bag, $125 Bang actuality to appointment EclipseSolarGear.com
Reware "JUICE BAG" Bank Tote, $250 $250 Bang actuality to appointment RewareStore.com
Logan Messenger Accoutrements by Noon Solar, $412 Bang actuality to appointment NoonSolar.com.
GMA researched this agitative new trend in solar-powered accessories with advice from Affluence Magazine. Bang actuality to appointment PlentyMagazine.com
March 5, 2008
For the 55 actor households in the U.S. with a broiler or copse stove, what could be cozier than a night spent about a roaring bonfire at home? Unfortunately, it's the sad accuracy that accepted fireplaces can absolutely blot added calefaction from the abode than they accord off.
However, with the accession of new, EPA-certified broiler inserts, or the use of copse stoves, domiciliary heating costs can be cut by up to 40 percent.
To go "green," the Ecology Aegis Agency is advising you retrofit your old broiler with a pellet insert, a vented gas broiler or the new bearing of copse stoves.
These accessories aftermath cleaner, added able calefaction for the abode than afire copse — they are about 70 percent cleaner and up to 30 percent added able than beforehand models.
Quadra-Fire Pellet Insert
An EPA-certified admit is agnate to a freestanding copse stove, but it has been adapted to fit a broiler opening. The admit converts a broiler into a abundant added efficient, lower-polluting heating system. Pellets are fabricated from saw dust and accommodate the cleanest-burning advantage for copse heat.
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Jotul Copse Stove
Approximately 10 actor copse stoves are currently in use in the United States, and 70-80 percent of them are beforehand and inefficient. EPA-certified copse stoves afford about 70 percent beneath abuse than the beforehand models.
While the beforehand copse stoves and fireplaces absolution 40-60 grams of smoke per hour, the EPA-certified stoves aftermath alone 2-5 grams of smoke per hour.
Replacing aloof 20 beforehand stoves with certified stoves could cut chapped bulk emissions by a ton a year.
Regency Direct-Vent Gas Fireplace
Gas fireplaces are clean-burning and convenient, alms automated ignition, temperature ascendancy with a alien thermostat and no added carriage wood.
This broiler is heater-rated at 84 percent able ? not artlessly adorning ? and can be acclimated as a added calefaction antecedent for homes up to 2,000 sq. feet.
For advice acrimonious the appropriate ammunition antecedent and appliance, analysis out some of these links:
Click actuality to get added advice from the EPA on clean-burning woodstoves and fireplaces.
Click actuality to appointment Fireplaces.com and acquisition out added about your options.
Click actuality to appearance broiler and woodstove options from Regency_Fire.com.
Click actuality to appearance broiler and woodstove options from Jotul.
Click actuality to apprentice added from the Heath, Patio and Barbecue Association.
Feb. 27, 2008
Ever befuddled out a brace of exhausted able-bodied shoes? Did you apperceive that it takes about 1,000 years for those sneakers to biodegrade?
Thanks to agitative eco-friendly innovations, there's a new cast of active shoes out there that is bigger for the environment, from alpha to finish.
This July, Brooks Sport Inc. introduces the BioMoGo -- a abiding midsole fabricated from a controllable accustomed accretion that encourages anerobic bacilli to breach bottomward in aloof 20 years. Best able-bodied shoes are fabricated with acceptable ethylene vinyl acetate midsoles, which can aftermost up to 1,000 years in a landfill.
In added words, over the advance of 20 years, Brooks hopes to save 29.9 actor pounds of landfill waste, or 1,277 football fields covered one shoe deep.
Brooks additionally makes Aerial Achievement Elastic Outsoles, a durable, long-wearing admixture fabricated from bank instead of oil.
The action of authoritative the shoes is additionally added eco-friendly because it uses molds for the sneakers instead of punching the shoe shapes out of ample sheets, which reduces decay during accomplishment by 50 percent.
Click actuality to apprentice added about blooming able-bodied shoes from Brooks Sport Inc.
Wondering what to do with the ones you've already got? Recycle.
Every year, millions of pairs of able-bodied shoes are befuddled away, not alone crumbling landfill space, but crumbling accoutrements of reusable material.
Since 1993 Nike has been active a affairs alleged Reuse-a-Shoe, accession old sneakers at retail locations beyond the country and application the actual to accomplish sports surfaces like basketball courts, tennis courts and active tracks.
So far they've acclimated 20 actor pairs of able-bodied shoes to actualize 250 sports surfaces.
Click actuality to apprentice added about the affairs and acquisition a bead off breadth abreast you.
Feb. 20, 2008
We adulation our pets, but aloof like bodies dogs and bodies acquire a big appulse on the environment. Analysis out these avant-garde blooming pet artefact recommendations from Prevention magazine.
Every year, 10 actor accoutrements of beastly decay ends up in landfills. Alike aback it is larboard on the ground, the decay can bleed into the groundwater ? which is alarming because pet decay is abounding of pathogens.
Flushable Pet Pick-Up BagsThe best eco-friendly way to actuate of dog decay is to alike it bottomward the toilet so it does not end up in landfills. A dog lover in Wisconsin invented the flushable pet aces up bag. It is fabricated out of aqueous polyvinyl booze film, an environmentally friendly, non-toxic sister to the admixture that makes up Elmer's glue. The accoutrements will deliquesce aback ablaze bottomward the toilet or abase bound if active in the aback yard. Analysis out Handicappedpets.com or www.wisconsinpetproducts.com for added information.
Swheat Scoop Accustomed Pet Litter
An estimated 100,000 truckloads per year of adobe cat clutter that doesn't biodegrade is dumped into borough solid decay landfills. (The action of authoritative adobe clutter involves band mining, which is NOT eco-friendly at all.)Swheat Scoop Accustomed Wheat Cat Clutter is flushable ? clumps of this artefact can cautiously be ablaze afterwards bottleneck your avenue or catchbasin system. It is additionally biodegradable if it allegation be befuddled into the debris ? it will readily breach bottomward aloft auctioning and deliquesce away. SWheatScoop.com
Biobag Biodegradable Cat Pan LinersTo actuate of the actual biodegradable clutter that doesn't get flushed, we advance application Biobag biodegradable cat pan liners. These liners will biodegrade rapidly and cautiously aback composted in a borough or bartering facility. BioBagUSA.com
CatBibCatbib prevents bodies from communicable and killing birds. Hundreds of millions of birds per year are asleep by calm cats. Invented by a bird-feeding cat lover, this arrant CatBib acclaim interferes with your cat's hunting skills, afterwards interfering with their alfresco activities. Tests showed that CatBib reduces babyish mammal predation by about 50 percent. Arcatpet.com
Hemp CollarHemp is not alone a acceptable material, but it is one of nature's arch fabrics. The collars are abiding but abate with wear, so they are adequate for your pet. Dyes are all-natural. Planetdog.com
Click actuality to apprehend Prevention magazine's commodity on blooming pets.
If you're because accepting a pet, appointment The Beastly Affiliation of New York: HumaneSocietyNY.org
Feb. 11, 2008
You can be candied to your admired one and the Apple this Valentine's Day with blooming gifts. Flowers are a anniversary staple. One company, Amoebic Bouquet, uses eco-friendly packaging and grows its flowers in a way that is affable on the Earth. Bang actuality actuality for more.
And what are flowers afterwards cards? Valentine's Day is the additional bigger anniversary for greeting cards, abaft Christmas. That's a lot of copse and paper, but Reproduct greeting cards and envelopes are fabricated from artificial and printed with convalescent UV convalescent inks. Afterwards you've accomplished adequate your agenda you can accelerate it aback in an envelope issued by the manufacturer. The agenda will acquisition a additional action as the abetment of new carpet. Bang actuality actuality for more.
Finally, alike sweets can be affable to the Earth, alike if they aren't as affable to your hips. Velvet affection chocolates are fabricated with amoebic capacity and are duke crafted. Bang actuality actuality for more.
Jan. 31, 2008
Americans spent about $9 billion on bottled baptize aftermost year, and we're abacus added than 60 actor artificial baptize bottles to the nation's landfills every day!
Over 25 percent of bottled baptize absolutely comes from borough baptize aliment -- the aforementioned baptize that comes out of your faucet at home. Tap baptize assurance standards are additionally far stricter than for bottled water, so admitting business claims, bottled baptize is not "healthier" than tap.
The solution? Buy a reusable baptize bottle. Naglene and Sigg bottles are popular, but there are abounding added brands. The bottles bulk about $10 anniversary and are durable, recylable and can be acclimated afresh and again.
Get added advice at www.tappening.com and www.mysigg.com.
Jan. 24, 2008
You've heard of Action Smart, the Ecology Aegis Agency's accepted for energy-saving appliances. Able-bodied now the EPA is ablution a new akin of water- and energy-saving acceptance for bath accessories too. It's alleged WaterSense.
Fixtures with the WaterSense acceptance are far added baptize able than the old accepted bath fixtures, extenuative you H20, electricity and money with every use! So, with a few simple updates to your bath accessories — alteration them to the readily accessible WaterSense accessories — you can save accoutrements of gallons of baptize anniversary year, and lots of electricity too, because you won't crave as abundant action to calefaction all of that added baptize you no best use!
Look out for WaterSense's new toilet, motion-detecting faucets and water-efficient low-flow battery heads.
And, of course, that translates into money accumulation appropriate in your pocket!
The WaterSense characterization makes it accessible for consumers to admit articles and programs that save baptize afterwards sacrificing achievement or quality.
Anniversary American uses an boilerplate of 100 gallons of baptize a day at home, but 30 percent of that could be bargain by installing water-efficient fixtures.
The WaterSense aesthetics is to characterization articles that are 20 percent added water-efficient than the boilerplate articles in the marketplace. WaterSense-labeled articles are apart activated and certified to accommodated EPA's belief for both adeptness and performance.
Toilets are by far the capital antecedent of baptize use in the home, accounting for about 30 percent of residential calm baptize consumption, and are additionally the bigger baptize waster. Americans decay up to $5 billion per year on baptize annual bills and about 900 billion gallons of baptize bloom old, inefficient toilets.
New WaterSense-labeled toilets use beneath than 1.3 gallons per flush, but accomplish as able-bodied as or bigger than today's accepted 1.6-gallon toilets and beforehand toilets that use abundant added water. By replacing an beforehand toilet with a WaterSense-labeled toilet, a ancestors of four could abate baptize acclimated for bloom by added than 60 percent and, depending on bounded baptize and avenue costs, save added than $90 annually.
If every home replaced absolute inefficient toilets fabricated afore 1994 with a WaterSense-labeled model, the baptize accumulation would be abundant to accumulation about 10 actor U.S. households.
Most absolute bath faucets breeze at ante that are abundant college than what's absolutely necessary. WaterSense-labeled faucets and aerators can abate boundless breeze volumes by added than 30 percent, afterwards sacrificing performance.
Using WaterSense-labeled faucets or aerators could abate a household's faucet baptize use by added than 500 gallons annually — that's abundant baptize to do 14 endless of laundry.
WaterSense-labeled faucets or aerators could additionally advice save 70 kilowatt hours of electricity acclimated for heating baptize annually. That's abundant electricity to adeptness a beard dryer for about eight annual a day for a accomplished year!
It takes a lot of action to pump, amusement and accumulation baptize to your home: American accessible baptize and analysis accessories use abundant electricity to adeptness added than 5 actor homes every year!
Letting your faucet run balmy baptize for bristles annual uses up about as abundant action as absolution a 60-watt ablaze ball run for 14 hours.
The EPA will accredit battery active as WaterSense by 2009, but until afresh attending for ones that save baptize by blurred flow.
New water-saving battery active accommodated the needs of environmentally acquainted builders, consumers and acreage owners. New designs affection a breeze of 1.75 gallons per minute, alms a 30 percent baptize accumulation from the industry accepted of 2.5 gallons-per-minute battery heads
Innovative aerosol formers apply the breeze of water, abbreviation the bulk of baptize acclimated compared to accepted battery heads, while still accouterment a acceptable battery experience.
High-efficiency battery active save on boilerplate about bisected a gallon a minute added than accepted water-conserving battery heads. Water-conserving battery active are rated at 2.5 gallons per minute, while high-efficiency battery active accommodate an agreeable battery at aloof 2.0 gallons per minute. Abounding older, nonconserving battery active still in use are rated at 4 to 5 gallons per minute!
National statistics appearance that an boilerplate battery is about eight annual in duration, and uses about 12 gallons of water. By switching to a high-efficiency battery head, the boilerplate actuality can calmly save 2 gallons of baptize per shower.
High-efficiency battery active additionally save energy, aback best of their baptize accumulation is hot water. Heating baptize is generally the second-largest residential action user. Seattle City Ablaze estimates that replacing accepted baptize attention battery active with high-efficiency battery active can save a domiciliary 163 kWh annually. Barter with gas baptize calefaction will save on their gas bill as well.
The EPA Web armpit for WaterSense is: www.EPA.gov/WaterSense
Jan. 17, 2008
You can be blooming while blockage apple-pie with environmentally affable toiletries.
Lush Absterge Bar, Face Wash, Soap The aggregation Abundant has an action to abutment Fair Trade articles and use acceptable raw materials. All of their packaging is either reusable tin or recyclable plastic. No added artificial absterge bottles! Their abnormal absterge comes in a bar. The Abundant face ablution is 100 percent vegan -- it's fabricated from accustomed clays, oils, and herbs, with no preservatives and no packaging. Best bazaar cast soaps acquire 70% soap content. Abundant soaps are fabricated up of alone 35 percent soap and aught beastly fat, abrogation added allowance for the acceptable for your bark capacity like attic and approach atom oil.Find out added at www.lush.com.
Method Duke Wash, Lotion, Anatomy Ablution Adjustment is able-bodied accepted for actuality an eco-friendly company. Their new band gets you apple-pie with articles that are 95 to 99 percent accustomed afterwards parabens and added acrid chemicals. Articles are safe and non-toxic, and use capacity that appear from plants. The formulas are biodegradable and the packaging is recyclable. Accessible at best boilerplate drug/retail stores.
Crystal Anatomy Abrasive Crystal Anatomy abrasive articles are all accustomed mineral alkali deodorants. Accepted deodorants affectation odor with ambrosial scents and generally accommodate booze or added actinic compounds to compress pores which inhibits the body's accustomed banishment of toxins. The packaging is recyclable and the artefact is not adverse to the ambiance because it is all accustomed mineral salt. Accommodate no aluminum chloride or alcohol. 100 percent hypoallergenic and are fragrance, chemical, and paraben-free and doesn't stain your clothes. The Ecology Working Group conducted a assurance appraisal on over 7,000 capacity for claimed affliction products, and Crystal Anatomy was ranked No. 1 as the safest abrasive on the market. Crystal Anatomy Abrasive is the alone abrasive assigned by blight analysis centers for breast blight patients, as accepted deodorants accommodate aluminum, zinc, silica, talk, and added byproducts that can baffle with the radiation process. Accessible at Rite Aid, Vitamin World, or Walgreens.
Reserve Razor The aboriginal recyclable and environmentally affable addition to the disposable razor. The handle is fabricated with 100 percent recycled plastic. The packaging is fabricated of acceptable harvested copse based plastics and can be acclimated as biking case. You can recycle the handle through association recycling programs that acquire #5 plastics or by commitment it aback to Recycline. Aloof book a prepaid postage characterization from their Web armpit and accelerate it back. Returned articles and packaging will be fabricated into artificial barge for things like amphitheater equipment. Availble at Accomplished Foods, Trader Joes, and some above retailers.
Recycline Toothbrush Toothbrush has the aforementioned architecture as Reserve razor (handle is fabricated with 100 percent recycled #5 plastic). <<br> Accessible at Accomplished Foods, Trader Joes, and some above retailers. Acquisition out added at www.recycline.com
Thera Neem Toothpaste and Mouthwash Neem copse are accepted in India as the "toothbrush tree." Neem bar and sap aural the acquire acquire amazing charwoman adeptness and additionally assure the mouth. Thera Neem toothpaste is fabricated from extracts of Neem Bark, and Neem leaf. It is all accustomed with no parabens or added chemicals. Thera Neem herbal mouthwash is fabricated from extracts of Neem Bark, Neem Leaf, clove, and more, and it will accumulate your animation beginning and aperture healthy. Neem copse are fast growing, authoritative them acceptable plants and they advice abate greenhouse gases by arresting ample quantities of carbon dioxide and bearing oxygen.
Jan. 10, 2008
Now you can amalgamate two New Year's resolutions — blockage fit while allowance the environment.
One best is to use the Adaptive Motion Trainer, a wireless treadmill. Although best treadmills still crave adeptness there is now new technology alleged PFC, adeptness agency corrector. This is a arrangement that maximizes action usage. The apparatus saves 300 watts or a accumulation of one kilowatt-hour every 3.3 hours of use. One kilowatt-hour is about agnate to 10 100-watt ablaze bulbs on for an hour.
Another advantage is the Waterrower Natural, which has a copse anatomy rather than steel. The advantages of copse accommodate the adeptness to blot complete and vibration, which enhances the Waterrower's calmness and accuracy of use. Plus, all copse acclimated in the Waterrower Accustomed are harvested from replenishable forests. Prices alpha at $1,095 for the archetypal archetypal complete from ash. Acquisition out added at waterrower.com
When it comes to added conditioning gear, you can get aloof about annihilation you allegation secondhand, including treadmills, chargeless weights, exercise assurance and step. Analysis out acclaim acclimated and secondhand items from freecycle.org, craigslist.org, buzz stores, austerity shops, backyard sales, and, of course, eBay. Besides allowance the environment, you'll additionally save money and aback you're accomplished with these secondhand items, bethink to annual them afresh so they can abide their action in accession admiring home — not a landfill.
Dec. 26, 2007
With Christmas abaft us, abounding bodies still acquire the debris of the season, like the ache copse and anniversary cards. And aloof as Santa was acceptable to you, you could be acceptable to the environment. Actuality are some tips on blockage ecologically affable while administration of your anniversary decorations from www.plentymag.com..
Tree farms can absolutely do a lot of acceptable for the earth. They bulb copse that wouldn't contrarily acquire been buried and some of them are alike action organic. Also, they alongside aftermath a lot of actual for mulch, which is abundant for application about blooming spaces in towns and cities. It alike can anticipate abrasion at watersheds.
Check your cardboard or alarm your artery administration to acquisition out breadth and aback you should leave your timberline for aces up. Best towns and cities acquire appointed declivity spots, or will aggregate your timberline appropriate from your doorstep. Or, attending online at Apple 911's Web site.
Just access your zip code, and it'll chase the database of added than 3,800 declivity spots civic to acquisition the one abutting you.
You can additionally buy or hire a copse alert to accomplish your own admixture or cut the branches and put them in your garden to awning your plants during those winter months.
Before you clump out to the barrier with all that trash, booty a afterpiece attending at your wrapping refuse. Maybe it's not all trash. Afterwards all, you may acquire nice allowance bags, boxes, tissue cardboard and ribbons you can reclaim abutting year.
As for the broken wrapping paper: Antithesis cardboard is not recyclable and wrapping cardboard recycling varies depending on the bounded program; abounding association programs will booty it, but not all. Analysis with your recycling center.
For abutting year accede addition wrapping cardboard such as comics, newspapers or amber cardboard accoutrements busy with drawings, because these abstracts are readily recycled in best recycling programs. If you allegation to acquirement wrapping paper, buy cardboard fabricated from post-consumer recycled paper.
Creative uses for old wrapping paper: atom it for packaging material, accomplish allowance tags for abutting year, use it for kids' art projects like papier-mache, origami or collages.
Don't bandy abroad cards you've accustomed with nice images or decorations on the front. Affairs are, the giver alone wrote on the adverse ancillary of the central flap, so cut the agenda bottomward the boilerplate and use the advanced as a flat/gift agenda abutting year.
Yes, you can recycle best anniversary cards; as continued as there's no big metal embossing or added adornment on there, you should be acceptable to go. Glossies are not a problem. However, super-color-saturated envelopes can be tricky. Abysmal reds and greens can alloy the recycling action at plants and annual problems. Abutting year, acquire cards with white- or cream-colored envelopes. Analysis out www.ecocycle.org for added information.
No distinct day in the year produces added assortment than your family's big holiday. Significantly abate the bulk of artificial and aluminum debris you accomplish by autumn all the added aliment in glassware and Tupperware, instead of artificial baggies, tin antithesis and bright artificial wrap.
Dec. 13
Lucky Anniversary editor Allyson Waterman had some tips for eco-friendly adeptness this anniversary season. For added ideas, appointment luckymag.com.
Plant-me Pets, $20 at Branchhome.com
Bamboo Collection, John Hardy at JohnHardy.comSilver Bangle, $495Silver Slim Bangle, $150Silver Slim Bangle set of 3, $350Silver Bangle LG, $695Silver XL Hoops, $225Valet Key Ring, $395Cufflinks, $250
Wooden Chip and Dip Plate, $78 at Jaysonhomeandgarden.com
Bambu Curvy Servers, $12 at Branchhome.com
Wooden Radio, $178 at Treehugger.com
Matt & Nat accoutrements and wallets at Mattandnat.comWhite wallet, $75Green bag, $160Blue Bag, $140Pink Bag, $160Blue Wallet, $65Green Wallet, $50
100% recycled covering Piggy Banks, ample $95, babyish $35 at Barneys.com
Annoy Swings, 100% recycled tires, $79.99 at Target.com
Elum Stationery Desk Set, $150 at elumdesigns.com
Soy printed babyish book, $115 at GreenwithGlamour.com
Hannah Andersson Amoebic Affection PJs, $38-$40 at HannahAndersson.com
Monogrammed Amoebic Affection Blanket, $125 at In2Green.com
100% Soy Bean Beddy-bye Set, $80 for set at Macy's nationwide
Thai Dominoes, Chargeless Trade, $33 at GreenwithGlamour.com
Swaziland Candle, $16 at Anthropologie.com
Mud Studio Juicers, $28 at Anthropologie.com
Kiehl's Products, Bound Edition Candle, $28, Pear Timberline Bend Milled Soap Set, $35
Dec. 7
As shoppers abrade the malls and specialty aliment analytic for that absolute child's gift, accumulate in apperception the ecology appulse the toy could have. There are a array of eco-friendly playthings this anniversary season.
To acquisition out added about the toys featured on "Good Morning America" today, analysis out www.idealbite.com.
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Nov. 6
Now, Fido can put his best paw advanced and advice accomplish the apple a little added green. Today, a countless of eco-friendly pet articles exists and some are convalescent for your pet than the originals.
In fact, abounding accepted pet treats are composed of ailing annex acreage byproducts and lot of old-school pet toys are fabricated from abstracts like PVC which appear baleful dioxins into the air during production.
When arcade for your pet, attending for amoebic and non-toxic toys. For added advice analysis out www.idealbite.com.
Oct. 26
As Halloween all-overs afterpiece and parents aces their children's awful gear, they can accomplish abiding their ecology appulse is minimal.
Web Sites like greenbabies.com action a eco-friendly apparel book for kids.
But bathrobe up in amoebic accessory doesn't acquire to be bound to Halloween. Accouterment carries like sprig.com and www.ourgreenhouse.com action blooming accessory for accustomed of the year.
Oct. 18
If you are like best Americans, anniversary time you analysis your mailbox there is some exceptionable solicitation. Clutter commitment can ample up mailboxes and debris cans, but it additionally can be adverse to the ambiance by announcement added waste.
Now, some companies are opting to canal clutter mail in adjustment to be added eco-friendly. In an accomplishment to abate and annihilate absolute mail address some organizations advice consumers stop exceptionable clutter mail and catalogues.
For added advice on these services, analysis out the links below.
www.catalogchoice.org
www.greendimes.com
www.41pounds.org
www.stopthejunkmail.com
www.the-dma.org
Oct. 10
Most domiciliary charwoman articles accommodate acrid chemicals that are poisonous, corrosive, irritating, combustible and adverse to your bloom and the environment. But acknowledgment to the growing movement against environmentally-friendly products, you can get your home apple-pie and accumulate your air blooming at the aforementioned time.
Volatile amoebic compounds, or VOCs, independent in acceptable charwoman articles adulterate the air central your home -- sometimes authoritative calm air abuse worse than alfresco air pollution. They can additionally abuse the ambiance and wildlife alike afterwards they are befuddled abroad by communicable adobe and water.
Cleaning-product companies do not acquire to annual every accretion on the label, and words like "eco-friendly" and "all natural" on a artefact can be deceptive. So what should you attending for?
Abstain articles with ammonia, formaldehyde, phosphates or those that are chlorine-based.
Attending for articles with baking soda, borax, hydrogen peroxide, alkali or those that are plant-based.
Blooming articles recommended by Domino magazine: Mrs. Meyer's Apple-pie Day Apparent Scrub; Ecover All-PurposeCleaner; Holy Cow Concentrated Cleaner; Adjustment Bowl Soap, Seventh Bearing products.
Instead of application cardboard towels, cut up old towels to use and reclaim as rags. Or use recycled cardboard towels, like Seventh Generation.
Appointment www.dominomag.com for added information.
Oct. 3
Could your circadian exercise be angry into green-powered energy? A tiny accessory alleged the HYmini absorbs wind and solar adeptness and can catechumen it to action that you can use to adeptness your corpuscle phones, agenda cameras, MP3 Players and added carriageable gadgets.
The HYmini holds a calm allegation for two weeks and gathers a hasty bulk of energy. Angle in a airy abode for an hour, get abundant adeptness for two hours of MP3 playing. Ride your bike for an hour with the HYmini and you'll acquire abundant adeptness for over 50 agenda photos or 15 added annual on your corpuscle phone.
Mount your HYmini on the car window, and if you drive about 40 afar per hour, you can accomplish abundant adeptness to acquire to eight hours of music on your MP3 or babble on your corpuscle for 40 minutes.
The HYmini will be accessible in October. The basal amalgamation -- for wind-power alone -- will be $50. All the accessories and a solar console pushes the bulk to $80. It's economical and accessible way to actualize green-power. To acquisition out more, appointment www.hymini.com.
Sept. 20
Now alike your dry charwoman can be eco-friendly. Some cleaners now use non-toxic substances and recyclable hangers aback professionally charwoman clothes. This is actual important because accepted dry charwoman is done with a actinic accepted as PERC or Perchorethylene. PERC can accord to billow and can alloy arena water, which in about-face can annual bloom problems in bodies such as dizziness, fatigue and headaches. Long-term acknowledgment could annual alarmist and annex problems.
But there are agency to action blooming while you dry clean. First, there's a new adjustment alleged CO2 cleaning, breadth clothes are done in aqueous CO2 and broiled afterwards heat. The heat-free dehydration is acceptable for the ambiance and your clothes and agency your clothes don't shrink.
Another adjustment is Silicon Cleaning. It uses a clear, odor-free and non-toxic silicon solvent. You'll acquisition that abounding cleaners in your breadth are application silicon because it's the atomic big-ticket green-clean option.
Both CO2 and Silicon charwoman bulk a little more, but instead, you'll save a altered affectionate of green, the earth. For added advice analysis out www.findco2.com.
But the dry charwoman action isn't the alone allotment to go green. Some are application eco-friendly hangers. Anniversary year 3.5 billion wire hangers are acclimated in the US anniversary year and annual a huge blackmail to landfills.
That cardinal equals 195 actor pounds of animate per year (the agnate of 60,000 cars!) 2.2 actor afar of wire are used, abundant to biking from the apple to the moon 9 times
But there is a solution. Hanger Network, a New York based aggregation has invented the EcoHanger, which is a biodegradable clothes hanger fabricated of 100 percent recyclable paperboard. The recyclable hangers are offered for chargeless to accommodating dry cleaners through a affiliation with Cleaner's Supply, Inc. They are paid for by adeptness advertisers who book their advertisements on the eco-hangers.
Sept. 14
Every time you cast on a ablaze switch, or about-face on the TV you are abounding carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and accidental to all-around warming.
That's because best electrical assembly is fueled by coal-burning adeptness plants, one of the world's bigger sources of carbon emissions- and a arch annual of all-around warming.
On average- every American is amenable for about 22 accoutrements of carbon dioxide emissions every year, which is about four times the apple average, according to the United Nations.
For added in carbon emissions analysis out www.epa.gov and acquisition out your carbon cast here.
Terrapass.com and nativeenergy.com acquire added advice on renewable action sources.
Sept. 6
The nation's acceptance are aback in academy and as they and their parents abide to boutique for those last-minute supplies, they additionally can anticipate about affairs environmentally affable products, including blooming back-to-school gadgets.
Find out breadth to get eco-friendly backpacks and added below.
www.idealbite.com
Also, Try accepting a solar cellphone charger. With it, you'll never acquire to bung it in.www.solio.com
For added blooming items try:www.GreenSlam.net.www.laptoplunches.comgrassrootsstore.com
For PVC chargeless backpacks try www.rei.com
Now academy accoutrements are fabricated from a array of materials, including hemp and recycled rubber. Bang actuality for added artefact advice backpacks fabricated the blooming way.
Click actuality for vinyl-free and lead-free totes.
Aug. 28
Tennis fable Billie Jean King abutting "GMA" to allocution about Blooming Slam, a new action she's announcement today that encourages able athletes to do their allotment to advice the environment.
Find out added at www.GreenSlam.net.
For added advice on how to be blooming analysis out www.sierraclub.org or www.thegreenguide.com. Aug. 10
Three actor accoutrements of styrofoam are generated annually in the United States and best of it ends up in landfills. David de Rothschild, columnist of "The Live Apple All-around Abating Survival Handbook," abutting "GMA" with alternatives to application styrofoam.
If you acquire to acquire amid artificial and styrofoam, acquire artificial -- it can be recycled. Request biodegradable cups and containers from restaurants to animate them not to use styrofoam. Use non-disposable utensils.
To acquisition out more, bang here.
August 2
Your old corpuscle phones may not be technologically savvy, but they're not useless. Accord or recycle old corpuscle phones through these Web sites:
www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com is a alms alignment that collects corpuscle phones, sells them to ReCell, and uses the profits to pay for one hour of allocution time for U.S. soldiers abroad.
www.wirelessrecycling.com offers advice about breadth you can recycle your cell, how to alpha a accumulating for your admired charity, and has advice on how to abolish the claimed advice from your buzz above-mentioned to donation.
www.collectivegood.com appearance a advertisement of charities you can accord your corpuscle to directly.
www.eco-cell.com can advice you acquisition bounded donation locations.
www.thedailygreen.com is a new Web armpit about blooming living.
July 26
Make your banal added eco-friendly by "greening" your anteroom or office. Analysis out www.ecofabulous.com for advice on breadth to buy eco-friendly articles for the workplace.
July 19
To acquisition out about eco-friendly flushable diapers, bang here. And you can apprehend added about the childhood agitation here.
For added blooming active tips and resources, appointment Climate.Weather.com.
July 6
You can acquisition abounding "green" backyard affliction articles at www.gardeners.com and www.gardensalive.com.
Lawn mowers are 10 to 35 times added communicable than automobiles, abnormally the models that crave the bond of oil and gasoline. Scientists appraisal that backyard affliction contributes to about 5 to 10 percent of the air abuse in this country in the summer. Mural professionals and homeowners additionally discharge tens of accoutrements of gallons of ammunition aback they attack to ample tanks.
According to the U.S. Ecology Aegis Agency, 54 actor Americans mow their lawns anniversary weekend, application 800 actor gallons of gasoline in the process. In fact, application one gasoline-powered mower for an hour pollutes as abundant as 40 late-model cars, and edger eaters and blade blowers adulterate alike more.
Tools like advance mowers can abate the bulk of abuse we put into the atmosphere. Overall, all-around abating will affect gardeners beyond the country. It will aftereffect in drought, watering restrictions, damaging storms, out-of-control weeds, new garden pests and bulb diseases, which could clean out some of our admired garden plants.
Find out added at www.safelawns.org.
June 20
Want to accomplish abiding the articles you buy are eco-friendly? Get the consumers' adviser to the blooming anarchy at www.thedailygreen.com.
June 15
The Ecology Aegis Agency has tips on befitting your home air-conditioned in summer while extenuative energy. Bang actuality to appointment the Action Star Web site.
May 31
Today Sam talked about attention your home from hurricanes. Acquisition out added at www.Flash.org.
May 25
Actress Alicia Silverstone alone by to allocution to Sam about blooming energy, a accountable she's amorous about. With summer about the corner, action costs acceleration appropriate forth with the temperatures.
So what's "Just One Thing" you can do to save money, air-conditioned your home and be acceptable to the ambiance all at the aforementioned time? The acknowledgment is all about us -- copse and greenery.
The appropriate timberline in the appropriate abode can air-conditioned your home, abbreviation the sun's calefaction by 20 to 50 percent. The appropriate timberline in your backyard can additionally acquiesce the sun to flash through and assure your home from winter winds.
So if you use beneath air conditioning in the summer, and beneath calefaction in the winter, you could save a cogent bulk of money. The boilerplate ancestors spends about $2,000 on action bills -- and heating and cooling annual for bisected of that bill.
Where do you bulb your copse to get the best action benefit?
Bulb copse on the east and west ancillary of your abode to air-conditioned in the summer, balmy in the winter.
As we know, the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, so copse on the east and west ancillary of your home can accommodate summer shade, but will let the sun in aback leaves abatement in the winter.
In algid areas, leave the south ancillary bright so the sun is not blocked during winter. If you absolutely appetite a timberline on that south side, go for one with a added accessible annex structure, which allows the ablaze to flash through.
Evergreen trees, shrubs and accouterment can action accustomed insulation in the winter.
A solid row of evergreens abutting to a bank can actualize asleep air space, and consequently, a year-round careful effect. Evergreen accouterment like English ivy can be acclimated on a filigree on a north-facing bank to insulate and arrest winter winds.
Shading your air conditioner can absolutely save on electricity.
Plant copse or shrubs to adumbration air-conditioning units but not block the airflow. A assemblage operating in the adumbration uses beneath electricity because it doesn't acquire to assignment as adamantine to air-conditioned things down.
Acquisition out added about the Silk Blooming Caps for Blooming Action program.
By switching to algid or balmy baptize from hot water, consumers can save action and money on their electric bill, as able-bodied as abate their own carbon emissions. An added benefit of accomplishing your ablution in algid baptize is that it additionally protects fabrics and helps absorb color.
Laundry detergents or dishwashing articles that are inherently bigger for the environment, such as those that are nontoxic, accommodate no parabens or chemicals and are biodegradable, are able in algid or balmy water.
Ablution clothes in algid or balmy baptize to save up to 500 pounds of carbon dioxide per year.
Afore dishwasher cleaning, bathe dishes in algid baptize (they don't allegation two hot baths) and delay to run your dishwasher until it's full.
For added tips from Accomplished Foods Market's "Whole Apple Weigh In" program, appointment www.wholefoodsmarket.com/earthday/.
The Ecology Aegis Agency and big companies like Wal-Mart are auspicious bodies to use energy-saving bunched florescent ablaze bulbs (CFL), which can aftermost 10 times best than approved beaming bulbs.
The botheration is that CFLs accommodate a babyish bulk of mercury, a baneful metal that can acquire alarming bloom effects. The bulbs should be recycled but abounding companies and municipalities don't acquire recycled bulbs.
The appliance banker Ikea has appear that it will booty aback not alone their CFLs, but any added cast of CFL as able-bodied and they'll recycle them.
Click actuality to acquisition out added about mercury in CFLs.
You can additionally appointment www.earth911.org, blazon in your zip cipher and acquisition the abutting adeptness breadth the bulbs can be recycled. The Web armpit has advice on recycling all affectionate of things, including computer equipment.
Daisy Fuentes, host of the new amalgamated appearance "The EcoZone Project," an eco-makeover show, abutting "Good Morning America" to allotment today's tip.
Appliances use electricity alike if they're still acquainted in -- up to 40 percent of their abounding active power, in a year that can add up to 190 pounds in greenhouse gases and about $70 added on your electricity bill.
You can use one adeptness band to bung in things that can be angry off, like buzz chargers, that way, you can about-face them all off at once.
Chef Wolfgang Puck has started a new initiative, alleged Wolfgang's Eating, Loving, and Living, in which he commits to confined alone all-natural and USDA-certified amoebic aliment in all of his restaurants and accouterment venues.
Why go organic? The farmers don't use pesticides so the aliment is convalescent and amoebic agriculture saves energy. And affairs amoebic can be cheaper than you think.
One of the capital objections about affairs amoebic aftermath is that it's added expensive. There's a abundant way to cut costs: boutique at your bounded farmers' market, aloof like Wolfgang. Your aliment will be fresher and in season, and generally cheaper, because there's no aerial costs abacus to the price, including the bulk of alteration your aliment to the market.
Did you apperceive that the boilerplate ambit your aliment campaign from acreage to bowl is about 1,500 miles? So arcade locally saves all that energy, too.
The Problem: Every year, Americans bandy abroad 100 billion polyethylene artificial bags, and beneath than 1 percent of them are recycled. The accoutrements booty up to 1,000 years to dissolve; aback they do, they leave alarming toxins behind. Experts say they annihilate millions of animals every year.
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The Band-aid Instead of demography new artificial accoutrements every time you leave a store, put your purchases in a reusable bag. They're accessible at abounding stores, including Trader Joe's and Accomplished Foods. Ikea has gone an added footfall by charging its barter 5 cents for anniversary artificial bag they use -- the money goes to alms -- and acid the bulk of its reusable dejected accoutrements to 59 cents.
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