After all the holiday presents have been exchanged, the tree taken down, and the ornaments put away, how many of you still have up your holiday cards laying around? I tend to keep mine up a little longer because I love the festive colors that adorn my mantel. Usually, I take off the pictures that [...]
January 2010
Watch this 3 minute video of This is Our Moment with Leo DiCaprio, Edward Norton, Forest Whitaker, Jason Bateman, Felicity Huffman, Chace Crawford, Emmy Rossum and Justin Long to tell our elected officials to vote for the American Clean Energy and Security Act pending in the Senate. This video was the brain child of the National [...]
How many people do you know take pictures with their blackberry of paper plates in BJs? Probably just me, but I had good reason to be excited. Here in front of my lovely doe green eyes was a package of 165 Chinet Classic White paper plates that I could compost in my magical composter! Some [...]
How many of you struggle with door air infiltration in your home or office? Does it seem like your exterior office or home doors or perhaps, your overhead doors leak like sieves? How about if you could just brush those air drafts good-bye with a simple weatherstripping product? Look no further. Memtech weatherstripping and draft [...]
Have you been a recipient of an Intuit’s try me disk? I have receive quite a few especially around tax season, but I never realized so many other people had too. How did I know? When I was cleaning out my My GreenDisk box which was spilling over with computer junk, I noticed quite a few Intuit [...]
I collect accessory computer waste via my GreenDisk trash can at my children’s school. Okay, I admit it. In fact, truth be told, I have been obsessively collecting electronic accessory waste for 3 1/2 years which includes DVDs, CDs, VHS, and their plastic cases and other assorted goodies. (Read here what GreenDisk recycles.) Now that you know [...]
My kids love clementines (okay devour clementines.) So what is the harm with this? Their packaging. They come in a wood crate with a plastic net. I HATE the packaging. I can’t recycle the crate but have been giving them away to be reused. People sure love them. My cousin uses them to store her [...]
Jennae of Green Your Decor sent the Green Mom Carnival group an email this weekend that took my breath away. Her four year old daughter, “Mini Me,” Jennae’s nickname for daughter, was just diagnosed with leukemia. A parent’s worse nightmare is to have a sick child. Worse yet, Jennae is self employed and her husband has just [...]
Are you dreaming for spring like I am with the average temperatures in the New Jersey area hovering around 21 degrees? Day dreaming about the pool you have in your backyard and dipping your toe into the warm pool water? Well, if you live in the northeast like me, I can’t dip my toe in [...]
Did you ever think you were green before the term, being green was coined? Were some of your actions just plain green before everyone started counting them as part of the old reduce your carbon footprint jargon? Maybe you actually don’t realize some of your habits are pretty green but never stopped to think about [...]
