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Teach Kids to Bring Their Own Bag By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Mar 26 2008 Illustration credit: Gary Currant/Penton Kids Press, used with permission Help your child ditch the disposable-bag habit, before it even begins, by picking up My Bag and Me! To help your child tip the ecological scale, the book includes a reusable Tyvek bag just like the one in the book, so your ankle-biter can tote it + READ MORE

Solve the Diaper Dilemma: Safer Disposables By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Mar 17 2008 This post is part of a series on choosing the best diapering option for your baby. Of course, this problem is goes away with frequent changing and a little fresh air on tiny tushies...but super absorbents work so well that often baby doesn't cry when wet, and hey, it can be a little tempting to let 'em sleep with it... + READ MORE

Choose Cloth Napkins Over Disposables By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Mar 17 2008 Each American uses an average of 2,200 two-ply napkins a year, according to Elizabeth Rogers and Thomas M. Kostigen, authors of The Green Book: The Everyday Guide to Saving the Planet (2007, Random House). To prevent a surge in laundry, suggests the April 2008 issue Body + Soul, assign each family member a unique... + READ MORE

Solve the Diaper Dilemma: gDiapers, the Hybrid Diaper By Lynda Fassa IN Home & Garden Mar 13 2008 Lynda Fassa is Planet Green's babies and family expert.They know they are making a lot less trash, and they can work laundering the covers into a doable schedule in the building's shared laundry room-something they say they couldn't have done with 100 percent cloth. + READ MORE

Solve the Diaper Dilemma: The Cloth Option By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Mar 11 2008 This post is part of a series on choosing the best diapering option for your baby. First let's look at the environmental impact of that choice: Disposable diapers make up 5 percent of landfill waste in the United States.About 18 billion disposable diapers were discarded in America last year, and the average American... + READ MORE

Remove Pet Hair the Easy Way By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Mar 5 2008 One of the downsides of keeping a pet: Unless you're living with a naked mole rat (or you're a poor housekeeper), you spend more time than you'd like picking up hair that your pooch or kitty just shed with reams and reams of disposable lint tape. Rather than constantly removing and washing the duvet cover to rid it of... + READ MORE

Meet Change Maker Caroline Priebe of Uluru By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Mar 5 2008 Today, we're going to meet Caroline Priebe, the fashion designer behind the glamorous sustainable label Uluru.Change Makers is series of interviews with people famous and obscure, who answer questions about how they are creating a more sustainable world through their work and personal lives. + READ MORE

Turn a Disposable Camera into a Permanent One By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Feb 25 2008 On the off chance that you bought a disposable camera at a drug store, and guilt and shame have been dogging you ever since, here's how to hack that sucker into a permanent setup for less than 20 smacks. + READ MORE

Cut Waste When Grocery Shopping By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Feb 20 2008 Sure, bringing your own canvas totes to the supermarket is one way of cutting down extraneous waste, but that's not the only way we can help spare our overtaxed landfills and resources. Close the loop: Purchase products, such as paper towels and toilet paper, made from recycled materials. ::Real Simple Difficulty... + READ MORE

Bring Your Own Chopsticks By Collin Dunn IN Food & Health Feb 8 2008 According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, roughly 63 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks are churned out each year in China alone; the vast majority of those have a one-way ticket for the trash can. The Carry-On Chopsticks (9.95) from Backcountrygear.com are made from stainless/birch, and collapse... + READ MORE

Go with the Flow By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Food & Health Jan 29 2008 Okay, ladies, let's talk about feminine hygiene, namely the environmental impact of chucking hundreds of applicators, pads, and packaging every year. Organic, all-natural disposable cotton pads and tampons: Natracare has a line of unbleached, chemical-free feminine-hygiene products, including tampons made from 100... + READ MORE

Change Out Your Car's Disposable Air Filter with a Lifetime Filter By Collin Dunn IN Tech & Transport Jan 24 2008 As we learned from Lloyd yesterday, keeping your car tuned up is a great way to save some cash and maintenance over the long haul. The lifetime filters need only be inspected every year or so; when they appear dirty, follow the manufacturers' instructions for cleaning and care, and revel in the fact that you'll never... + READ MORE

Bring Your Own: Workplace Essentials By Collin Dunn IN Work & Connect Jan 18 2008 Unless your commute just requires going across the hall to the home office, going to work every day requires a commute (by bike, if you can). Don't forget a plate (for easy reheating later) and some real flatware, so you don't have to partake of the disposable plastic your favorite take-out place always piles on you. + READ MORE

Buy Recycled Paper Products By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 4 2008 If you've been meaning to see the forest for the trees, slip the National Resources Defense Council's guide to household paper products in your pocket the next time you go shopping for toilet paper, facial tissues, paper towels, and other disposable paper products. The impact of purchasing products with high recycled... + READ MORE

Green Your Home for Winter: Install a Permanent Furnace Filter By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Jan 2 2008 You can bid farewell to unnecessary waste, and hello to cleaner air, by using an electrostatic furnace filter in lieu of disposable fiberglass screens, according to The Daily Green. Throwaway filters only remove about 10 percent to 40 percent of pollutants from the air, while electrostatic models-which also happen to... + READ MORE

Throw a Green New Year's Eve Party By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Dec 28 2007 The decade is just about in the books, and many a champagne flute will be raised in celebration of the end of 2009. From renting glasses to sipping organic wine, here's a quick list of how to keep the party sustainable. + READ MORE

Conduct an Office Waste Audit By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Work & Connect Dec 5 2007 What's in your trash? Analyze business processes: Examine purchasing records to weed out extraneous supplies you're overstocking on, as well as to identify items that can be replaced with eco-friendlier options-using recycled printer paper versus virgin materials, for instance, or replacing disposable Styrofoam and... + READ MORE

Buy One Quality Item vs. a Hundred Disposable Ones By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Nov 13 2007 A tip from Philby of Philby's Finance: Spend a little bit more cash on a well-made product, rather than repeatedly shelling out for its cheap, short-lived counterpart-this goes for everything from electronics to clothing. "Part of the problem is that the cost of disposable items has decreased so much that it's often... + READ MORE

Green Your Home For Winter: Add Attic Insulation By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Nov 7 2007 We have been listing the things you should do to prepare your home for winter, in order of bang for your buck, as determined by the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI), which figured out the cost in dollars per ton of carbon saved for each investment you make in time and money. If you do not have an accessible attic and... + READ MORE

Start Fires with Matches, Not Lighters By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Nov 5 2007 Here's a quandary almost as old as the paper-or-plastic conundrum: Match or lighter? While both are exercises in resource depletion, according to Guardian writer Leo Hickman, he concludes that matches are the lesser of the two evils, especially if you can establish where the timber is sourced and the conditions under... + READ MORE