I absolutely love Freecycle, which is an online community where people can giveaway their once loved possession to someone who can use them. But what I don’t love about my online community is the barrage of emails that I get from everyone’s posts. Your email box could be flooded in just a day (or maybe […]
RecyclingNJ Adds More Features to Expand Recycling Awareness Efforts
Welcome Guest poster, Paul Leonard of recyclingNJ to provide us with an exciting update of how his website is impact recycling efforts in New Jersey. Although his site is New Jersey based, many of his links can be used through the US. As many of you will be aware, the average US citizen throws away 1655 […]
New Jersey Gets a New Recycling Website
Welcome guest poster, Paul Leonard. Two years ago I moved to New Jersey from London, England to work at Rutgers university as a research biochemist. Although unrelated to my job, I am passionate about the need to conserve the earth’s resources and to reduce the amount of trash we all throw away. I started out […]
Green Links for May 16, 2010 from Smart Grid to Children’s Tylenol recall
Photo by Fernando de Sousa. Lots of good green stuff in the mailbox this week ranging from five green energy myths with a dash of Children’s Tylenol recalls and a sprinkle of what is the Smart Grid anyways? Oh, don’t forget to read the BottleHood’s creative way to reuse wine bottles. Lots more where that came from. […]
Let Me Count the Way to Reuse Your Mylar Balloons
Photo by permission of peretzpup With Mother’s Day fastly approaching, what would be nicer than a flower arrangement with a shiny Mylar Balloon inscribed with the saying, “Number 1 MOM?” How about your Memorial Day or 4th of July party? Mylar balloons just add to the festival attitude. Just name the celebration, and there are […]
Eating at Wendy’s Could Have Green Benefits
Updated: 12/20/2011 How many of us catch lunch or dinner when we can? Are you driving up to the drive-in window more than you like to due to a hectic job, children with multiple activities or caring for family members? Does the person at the other end of the microphone recognize your voice? Sadly, the […]
18 Ideas To Reuse Expired Credit Cards
Photo by Mike Martin Wong How many of you have expired credit cards that either sit in your drawers, or you have cut up and thrown in the trash? These plastic wonders that allows us to say “charge it” can sit in our landfills for a very long time. Is there another way to reuse […]
