Articles tagged “Junk Mail”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Similac Infant Formula Recall Notices Mailed in Padded Envelopes By Colleen Vanderlinden IN Home & Garden Oct 6 2010 How not to mail a recall notice (courtesy of Similac.) + READ MORE

10 Alternative Packing Materials By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Apr 1 2010 Forget packing peanuts. Pad packages with reusable materials or things that would otherwise end up in the trash or recycling bin. + READ MORE

Make A Castle Bookmark From Scrap Paper By Elizabeth Seward IN Home & Garden Jun 24 2009 After a recent trip to Western Germany where beautiful castles decorate the landscape, part of me transitioned back into a princess and castle-loving little girl. When I found a map in my backpack upon arriving home, I decided to make a castle-shaped bookmark out of it. Whether you love castles yourself or some little princess in your life does, it's easy to make a castle-shaped bookmark from maps and all other sorts of scrap paper rather than throwing that paper away. Of course your design of a castle doesn't have to be the same as mine. In fact, I bet you can come up with something even better. + READ MORE

Save 100 Million Trees: Send Your Mail Online Using Zumbox By Brian Merchant IN Tech & Transport May 26 2009 What if I were to tell you that there was a magnificent new way to send correspondence to others without using a scrap of paper? You would probably tell me that yeah, that's rad, and that POGs and snap bracelets are sick, too. Psyche. And then you'd tell me to stop watching I Love the '90s marathons. And I'd say over my dead body. + READ MORE

15 Reuses for Envelopes By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Home & Garden May 18 2009 Last week I stumbled across a really great DIY project for reusing security envelopes, and it got me to thinking. Sure there are reusable envelopes, but given how many single-use envelopes we receive each year, I wondered about the many ways we could reuse before we recycle. + READ MORE

Essential Money Skills for a bad economy By Lloyd Alter IN Work & Connect Mar 4 2009 For years we have been saying that the key to sustainability is living with less, and now in these difficult times everyone is finding that it may well be the key to survival. + READ MORE

Go For Paperless Postal Service with Zumbox By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Tech & Transport Feb 23 2009 There's email, and there's snail mail. Zumbox is putting parameters in place to squash any potential for junk mail, and marketers and advertisers are the only clients being charged for the service, which will also help cut down on junk mail and promote use by other organizations. + READ MORE

6 Uses for Junk Mail By Josh Peterson IN Work & Connect Feb 18 2009 Junk mail. It's trash delivered right to your mailbox that you get the privilege of throwing away. What a deal! But what if you didn't just chuck it in the trash? What if you used it? Here's how. + READ MORE

Send A Message With Reusable Envelopes By Josh Peterson IN Work & Connect Feb 3 2009 Your office may send and receive a veritable boatload of paper mail. Even if your office tries to digitize the majority of its correspondences, a few messages undoubtedly go out by snail mail. Even worse, if your office has to send out mailers or bills to people with a second envelope on the inside of the original envelope: What can be done? Your office has to make a living, right? Good news! There is a way to cut back on the amount of paper used in snail mailing. The United States Post Office okayed reusable envelopes just last year. + READ MORE

Stop Junk Mail, Cancel Out Your Lifelong Paper Waste By Trevor Reichman IN Work & Connect Jan 20 2009 When I was living in Portland, Oregon, in an apartment complex, we would get a weekly stack of junk mail, mostly from fast food companies in the area, compliments of a company named Adville. They are not a local company. In fact, they invade mailboxes around the country with unwanted coupons for fast food restaurants and other franchises. + READ MORE

How to Avoid Work-Related Junk Mail By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Dec 3 2008 If you're frequently asked to, or volunteer to, send out items to business partners and clients without first seeking their permission, try to change this. No one wants to receive 'junk' mail and even though you may see the importance in whatever you're sending, it may simply be junk mail for someone else. + READ MORE

Living Off-Grid: Without a Trash Pickup Day By Trevor Reichman IN Home & Garden Nov 25 2008 Living off-grid usually means that there is no trash pickup day. No Problem. Here is what I do in order to limit my trash to one small carryout bag per month. + READ MORE

Throw a Low-Impact Party, Get Your Milk Home Delivered, Sport Vegan Kicks and more By Jessica Root IN Home & Garden Aug 28 2008 Throw a low-impact party with the Totally Eco Party Pack. Live in NYC?Get your milk home delivered--the old fashioned way! Pick up some comfy, vegan kicks at Portland's Pie Footwear. All this and more, today on TreeHugger! + READ MORE

Chocolates for a Cause, Urban Homesteading School and Paris Hilton for Pres? By Jessica Root IN Food & Health Aug 8 2008 Feel guilt-free popping back chocolates-for-a-cause from Compartes Chocolatier. Learn how to raise chickens, bee keep, and make preserves and yogurt. Find a way to reuse your junk mail. All this and more, today on TreeHugger! + READ MORE

How to Mark Snail Mail as SPAM By Trevor Reichman IN Work & Connect Aug 6 2008 I once took one of those postage paid return envelopes from a credit card company, glued it to a brick, and then put it back in the mail. I was hoping that the soliciting company would get charged the cost of mailing a brick. Even though my experiment failed, it sure made me feel better. + READ MORE

Ready, Set, Green, Week Seven: Letting Go of the Junk By Blythe Copeland IN Work & Connect Jul 30 2008 Since I started following the eight-week plan in Ready, Set, Green, I've been diligent about recycling?it's been an easy way to make a bigger impact with a chore I was already doing anyway.More about reusing junk mail: Green Delights of Junk Mail Gift Wrap Junk Mail Gems More about avoiding junk mail: Stop Junk Mail... + READ MORE

Goodbye Clutter, Hello Green By Megan Cohen IN Home & Garden Jul 8 2008 On World's Greenest Homes, interior flourishes like custom cabinetry keep eco-smart domiciles picture-perfect and clutter-free. You can keep your house looking sleek, while helping the planet, with some easy and eco-smart de-cluttering. In addition to the fact that actions like green-busting your junk mail have tangible benefits for the planet, they can also help you adjust to a more eco-friendly lifestyle on the whole by changing your relationship to your stuff. + READ MORE

Green Beret: Discover Eco Art By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jul 1 2008 Several creative Angelinos who transform landfill-bound billboards into stunning metro art shared their artistic ethos with G Word recently.The modern day version includes powdered purified casein (a milk protein), lime and pigments, not far from the original recipe-old curdled milk or cottage cheese, lime and color... + READ MORE

Green Beret: Discover Eco Art By Leslie Billera IN Work & Connect Jun 9 2008 Several creative Angelinos who transform landfill-bound billboards into stunning metro art shared their artistic ethos with G-Word recently. They're a part of a growing community of 'green' artists who use nature-based or recycled media to depict our relationship with planet earth. + READ MORE

Sign the Petition to Stop Junk Mail By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Mar 11 2008 Five years after the establishment of the historic national Do Not Call registry, ForestEthics champions consumer rights by launching its own Do Not Mail campaign to stem the tide of junk mail. U.S. junk mail currently accounts for 30 percent of the mail delivered in the world, according to ForestEthics, although 44... + READ MORE