For almost five years, I have been dispensing green advice. A regular Green Dear Abby. It just seem like yesterday that I started Green Talk. But, five years is a lifetime when it comes to web content. During those years, information and company change. As I updated my articles, I realize my old […]
Archives for December 2011
Greenpeace’s 2011 Electronic Green Guide: HP, Dell, & Nokia Winners
If you ask any of my children, what they want for the holidays, inevitably some sort of electronic product is mentioned. According to a 2010 Consumer Electronic Association study, the average US household spends $1380 on electronic purchases. So, how do we pursue our electronic passion but keep it green as well? Every year, Greenpeace […]
IceStone Offers Green Countertop Sealed with Corporate Eco Principles
Icestone Countertop Generally when people write about green building products they laud the aspects of the product. Seldom do they let you peek into how deep a company’s colors run. In the case of IceStone, a manufacturer of ecofriendly durable surfaces, they bleed dark green through out their company ethos from manufacturing to their stance […]
How to Recycle Alkaline Batteries
Are you like me? Have a bunch of household alkaline batteries sitting in a dusty section of your garage since you can’t bear to throw them out? You know. The ones that power your radios, flashlights, and other electronic equipment? If you don’t live in California, which mandates that all batteries must be recycled, then your […]
Planting Garlic in the Fall for Next Summer’s Harvest
Planting and growing garlic was so easy even I couldn’t have screwed it up. The best part is at the end of summer was harvesting those beauties. Plus, you should have seen the look on my friends’ faces as when they saw my bounty. They all shook their heads and wonder how I had […]
Donate Old Blankets and Towels to Animal Shelter Rather than Toss Them
How many of you have torn towels or blankets? Do you throw them away or use them as rags? The other day I noticed that one of the blankets that my kids use had a huge hole in it. Large enough that their entire bodies could shimmy through it. Sewing it back together was not […]
Trees Made into Flooring and Furnishings Not Firewood
Prior to Halloween, New Jersey was blanketed with four to six inches of heavy snow. The trees had barely lost any of their leaves causing many trees to split. Huge broken limbs scattered the roads and fell on power lines. These limbs were big enough to become someone’s new dresser. One of the Maple trees […]
