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Garbage Disposal Go Green

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Use your garbage disposal! It is more earth friendly then allowing the waste to sit in a plastic garbage bag, where it will decompose more slowly. When using a garbage disposal you are allowing organic waste to be sent into the sewer lines, where it will be digested back into nature. Organic waste is turned [...]

10 Ways to Make Earth Day Everyday

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Earth Day 2010 marks the 40th Anniversary of this official celebratory day. Online you’ll find a ton of promotions, Twitter parties and companies giving out coupons, hosting giveaways as well as offline festivals, green cleaning parties and local celebrations.  A month where companies are really trying to make a eco-friendly impact, honor Mother Earth and [...]

Greening Your Apartment

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Renting and Living Green isn’t always an option that renters feel they have. A national survey was conducted by Rent.com to evaluate Americans’ attitudes towards eco-friendly apartment lifestyles, the results were surprising. Fifty five percent of Americans were willing to pay extra rent for a “greener” apartment. Of those respondents most were impressed with spaces [...]

Green and Lazy

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Are you feeling lazy today? Good! It use to be that lazy was an excuse, well not anymore.  Mr. Josh Dorfman and the Sundance Channel are proving that you can be both lazy and green at the same time. In commemoration of Earth Day, Sundance Channel will present a new season of its original series, [...]

Acting Green or a Green Actress?

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Meryl Streep prides herself on being both an actress and environmental activist. Meryl has been an activist and concernist before most of us were even thinking of recycling, BPA, and pesticides. According to her friend and long time environmentalist herself, Wendy Gordon, Meryl first began to take action in 1988 when a hole in the [...]

Green Shopping and Green Savings for All Budgets

The guest post is provided by Ann from Buxr.com, a community of bargain hunters sharing online coupons and hot deals. Shopping online can save both your money and our planet! Why is that, you ask? Well, let’s see: Go Green by Saving Gas and Emissions According to GfK Online Shopping Survey (OSS, 2008 ), about [...]

Winterize Your Home and Save Some Green

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The cool and crisp days are upon us and as you prepare to turn up the heat, winterize your home.  Did you know theaverage family spends $1,400 a year on energy bills, with nearly half of that spent on heating and cooling? Energy-efficient heating and cooling equipment sized and installed correctly, with properly sealed ducts, [...]