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MyEmissionExchange: Earn Money to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint

September 11, 2009

Hey Folks. It is Anna here. Remember me? The one that is always nudging you to practice the 3 Rs: reuse, recycle, and reduce, and pesters you about the toxic hazards in your home and personal care products. Oh yeah, how can I forget? The one who constantly harps on how to green your house [...]

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Budgetnista Green for the Home, Part II

May 8, 2009

Yesterday, I listed a ton of suggested ways of how you can green your home on a budget. I had to break the article up into two posts because the ideas just kept flowing out of my head, making the article way too long. Today, I am focusing on water conservation in the home and gardening low [...]

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Going Budget Green for the Home

May 8, 2009

Today, a college intern at a local magazine emailed me that she wanted to ask me a few green questions. No problem, I thought. I love to talk about going green. Ask my friends? Sometimes, I think they would like me to shut up about it.
So, when the college intern asked me “what were my [...]

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PSEG GreenFest 2009: New Jersey Green at its Best

April 4, 2009

This weekend (April 3-5) is the annual PSEG GreenFest at the Garden State Exhibit Center in Somerset, New Jersey. Instead of giving you an excerpt from the Expo’s press release, I can give you the skinny on the festival since I spent the WHOLE day there. With a new name (previously known as Global Green) and [...]

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April’s NYC Go Green Expo is the Place to Be.

March 30, 2009

In2Green at last year’s Go Green Expo. Check out the discount below to attend the show.
Last year, I attended the Go Green Expo in NYC in April, 2008. To say it was spectacular is undervaluing how amazing the expo was. Three floors of green’ess in every imaginable product. Clothes, gardening, books, building products, coffee, and [...]

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Excuse Me. I am having Kermit moment.

March 16, 2009

The other day I just happened to look in the bathroom trashcan. And guess, what I found? Not dirty kleenex or an empty toliet paper roll. A box of nerds. My first knee jerk reaction was, “didn’t my kids know that the box was recyclable? Why was it in the trash?” Then I stopped and [...]

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Living Green Makes Cents

February 5, 2009

Photo by Tracy Olson
When people asked me what I believe in, I tell them I believe in family, friendship, and sense of self. But I also believe that living green makes sense. In fact, I believe Green makes cents.
Before you pooh-pooh me, realize being green does not mean you have to live in an extravagant green [...]

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Save Water by Licking

January 15, 2009

Here is an eco thought. How do you save water when baking? Lick the bowl! I did not have to ask my kids more than once to polish off the what was left of the brownie batter. Maybe, I got a finger full of chocolate before the troops took over. Talk about seeing and conquering. Arnold, the [...]

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Organic Chocolates Never Tasted So Good

December 5, 2008

Photo of Green and Black’s Dark Chocolate and Wine Collection
While I was at the New York Chocolate Show, I was feeling a lot like Charlie, the main character of the book, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, as he toured the Wonka Chocolate Factory. Although the Show did not have Oompa-Loompas or Everlasting Gobstoppers, it featured [...]

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Organic Chocolate, a Little Taste of Heaven

December 4, 2008

What is the 8th wonder of the world? Chocolate, no doubt. At the 11th annual New York Chocolate Show, I was a pig in mud being around hundreds of some of best chocolate makers, all in the same room, giving out free samples of the best chocolate I ever tasted.
My husband has always wanted to [...]