Spring is in the air and I am starting to see more wedding ads. It got me thinking about all the expenses my own family incurred for my wedding many, many moons ago. The size of an equity loan. Lots of flowers, 200 guests, 5 course meal. Just because this is what you did. It […]
MotoArt Rethinks Airplane Parts into Functional Furniture
I can clearly say that I am a airplane brat. My Dad loved to take us kids to the airport hanger where his airplane was kept. He loves planes. Personally, I loved the yellow one that had a bathroom in it so I never had to hold my you know what. (Little kids have small […]
Bicor Takes Back PLA Products to Convert into New PLA
As the editor of Green Talk, I get the privilege every day of interviewing the most amazing companies and people who are making an environmental difference in our world. One such company, Biocor, stands out from the crowd with its concept of buying back post-consumer Polylactic acid (PLA) and converting it back to its original […]
Is Faxing Bad for the Environment?
The other day, I received my second unwanted fax from a broadcast advertiser. In my post, “How to Stop Unwanted Faxes,” I gave you the keys on how to stop these faxes from showing up in your fax tray. But as I thought about it more and more, was faxing just plain bad for the […]
Recycle Your Jeans at the Gap March 5-14, 2010
Photo by permission of Ben Donley One of my most popular post is “Recycle your Blue Jeans.” I guess I have a lot of jean wearing, need to get rid of old jeans readers. Well, for a limited time, Gap is taking back old jeans as part of the CottontoBluetoGreen.org campaign. The time period is short: […]
Reuse your Greeting Cards to Spread Joy to Others
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 […]
Are Intuit’s Disk Becoming an E-nusiance?
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 […]
Confessions of an E-Waste Recycleaholic
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 […]
