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LivingECHO Offers your Favorite Green Products all in One Place.

February 22, 2010

When I first perused the green product shopping website  LivingECHO, my first thought what a great site for  one stop shopping.  I could click on many different organic and sustainable products from various environmentally minded companies and buy them right from the same site.  Think of an open food market place where there are all [...]

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TerraCycle turns your Frito-Lay Wrappers into Chic Tote Bags

May 19, 2009

When I was a kid, I used to love putting Fritos in my peanut butter sandwich. I was so addicted to Fritos that I ate them through college.  My usual college lunch was a tuna sandwich, Fritos, and a diet coke.  Real healthy, right? Heck, I was young so who cared, right?  I must have [...]

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Elmer’s Glue Sticks and Bottle Recycling Program & Giveaway

April 22, 2009

Check out the giveaway below!
If you have kids, you have Elmer’s glue in the form of glue sticks or glue bottle.  My kids are notorious for leaving off the glue stick caps or using way too much glues from the glue bottles.  I can’t recycle either the glue bottles or sticks.  (Even though the glue [...]

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Global Warming: Still Waiting on the World to Change.

August 2, 2008

 
Just like the lyrics of John Mayer’s song, “Waiting on the World to Change” I too am still waiting. In response to the possibility of increased heat temperatures and destruction of our planet, it seems that people and businesses are changing their thinking and way of life to prevent such a catastrophic occurrence for our [...]

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Home Depot Offers Free Recycling for Burnt-Out CFL

July 4, 2008

 

What are some of my pet peeves? They are as follows: People who urinate on the toilet seats and don’t clean up after themselves, CFLs recycling, people who do not call you back, and plastic pots recycling. Okay, 2 green pet peeves and 2 annoying pet peeves. Well, one pet peeve might be going by [...]

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Is Your Electronic Waste Being Dumped in Third World Countries?

January 30, 2008

Photo by permission of Daniel R. Blume
As technology advances, I have seen more monitors, computers, televisions, and other electronic equipment left at the end of driveways or in trash cans waiting to hitch a ride to the nearest landfill. According to the EPA, only twelve percent of electronic equipment is recycled.
The sad part is [...]

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So little Time, So Many Green Finds

January 24, 2008

There are many days I spend hours on the internet looking for needed items for my house. I know I am not the only one who does this. Today, the big search was for a wall display for plates that I bought through a thrift shop. I figured since most wall [...]

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GreenDisk, the Answer to Recycling CDs and DVDs

January 14, 2008

 
 Some of the contents of my GreenDisk Technotrash Can
Do you remember when you use to get those AOL free disks?  They would come in your mail, in magazines, and even with your toilet paper.  (Just kidding)  Just think of how many CDs and DVDs that are produced every year and how many damaged, obsolete, or [...]

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Read More, Consume Less

January 9, 2008

Photo by Cathy Stanley-Erickson by permission
Could your reading appetite be causing greenhouse emissions and the degradation of our forests? Reading is a wonderful pastime, but if you are like many people, your credit card is worn from the amount of books you buy every year. Do you ever re-read your books? I didn’t think so. [...]

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To Wrap or Not, That is the Question

December 24, 2007

It is the day before Christmas and of course you have waited until the last day to wrap gifts. This was me last week when I had to deliver 80 plus gifts to all of my children’s teachers, aides, cafeteria workers, and so on. We get a little nuts with holiday gifts for everyone at [...]

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