Photo courtesy of Swaptree.com How many times have you heard, “Mom, I am bored of this game? Buy me a new one!” Perhaps, you’ve just bought another book (again), finished it, put it on the shelf to never open it again. You are tired of spending money on games, books, or CDs that you or […]
Archives for October 2007
NJ’s Community Green’s Upcoming Green Kitchen Design Seminar
Photo courtesy of Community Green After reading the title to this Article, your first impression is who is Community Green and is New Jersey remotely green? Believe it or not, New Jersey is known as the garden state for a reason and it is not due to its long turnpike bearing the same […]
Get Paid to do Something good for the Earth?
Photo courtesy of Second Rotation, Inc Every time you open a drawer or closet, there is unused electronic equipment staring you in the face. Should you try and sell it? Then you think, that could be too much of a hassle. Perhaps you should throw it away? Who is going to want it anyway? Stress […]
Laptop Lunches: Meet Waste Free Lunch Box
How many lunch boxes do you pack in a week? Several for your children? Maybe a couple for you? I looked at my own children’s plastic footprint and it was astonishing. My high school children use to pack the above lunch every day. Chips, Plastic water bottle, and sandwich in a plastic bag. According to waste-freelunches.org […]
TerraCycle, Teaching Our Young through Worm Poop
Courtesy of TerraCycle, Inc. What does fundraising, soda bottles, yogurt cups, drinking pouches, and worm poop have in common? Give up? I know that is a tough set of words to figure out the correlation. Just ask the innovative folks over at TerraCycle, maker of worm poop fertilizer and other assorted eco-friendly gardening products. They […]
Eco-fundraising Made Easy and Profitable
Photo by Tannazie by permission under the Creative Commons Share-Alike License 2.0 Updated 6/25/2012 Although it is still October, the holiday season will be upon us sooner than you think. In anticipation of this season, PTAs, charities, and religious organizations all over the country will be unveiling holiday fundraisers in the form of holiday wrapping paper, […]
Is Your Veggie Garden Spooky?
Am I getting ready for Halloween? People ask me this since my “ghostly” garden is the first thing you see when you drive up to my house. It sure looks that way. Last week, the weather changed in New Jersey from an Indian summer to a “cold windy I wish I did not live here” […]
8 Steps to Help the Earth for Blog Action Day
For many of you, October 15 is known as the last day you can file your tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service. Today could be filled with sorting papers resulting in paper cuts, checking feverishly to make sure everything is right on your tax return, and racing down to the post office before it closes to […]
