Articles tagged “Reduce Reuse Recycle”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Don't Ever Turn Your Television On in the Hotel Room By Elizabeth Seward IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 13 2009 Not everyone uses a hotel as a means for sleeping whilst traveling. More and more these days, I find myself traveling alongside that guy or girl: the one who came on vacation just to curl up in the hotel bed and watch television. I suppose there's no life-threatening consequence to this, but doesn't it seem a bit silly? Expending resources to travel to a different location just to expend electricity for leisures you have at your disposal back home? I think it's a waste. + READ MORE

How to Green Your Broadway Experience By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Mar 13 2009 I saw Chicago on Broadway recently. It's something I wanted to do since I was a young girl, so that was good. What was bad was the waste. You may not want to think about the fact that watching a musical has a big environmental impact, but it does—and you should think about that. Musical productions waste lots of our resources, especially energy. (Just think about those lights, all the makeup, the props, etc.) Before you get all dolled up to go to your next Broadway show, make sure you're helping to offset these negative aspects of the musical with some green action. + READ MORE

Making CraigsList Work to Green Your Life By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Mar 11 2009 If you're not hip to Craigslist yet, you should be. Aside from the website's countless conveniences, being able to use Craigslist will, undoubtedly, help you to green up your life. The site offers users just about everything the traditional bulletin board or classifieds does—and more. If you have free things and want to get rid of them without contributing to a landfill, Craigslist is the place to do it. + READ MORE

9 Tips for Working Green While Traveling By Elizabeth Seward IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 10 2009 Work and travel don't go hand-in-hand for many Americans. Traveling, in all its glory, is something most of us get to do for maybe 2 weeks in the year. But with telecommuting jobs on the rise, learning to juggle work and travel is a becoming a sought-after skill. However, simply learning to work while traveling isn't enough. The tricky part is learning how to swing it all the green and efficient way. + READ MORE

Green Your Brain: What's the Surprising Number One Material Clogging Up Landfills? By Brian Merchant IN Go For The Green Mar 10 2009 We all know that there are plenty of not-so lovely mounds of land littered around our nation that are filled with, well, litter. Picture a landfill. Go ahead, do it—what do you imagine filling it up? Rusted car parts, dirty... + READ MORE

Give Your Old Hair to the Birds By Josh Peterson IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 10 2009 Hair. We all have it. We all complain about when it doesn't grow on our heads. For instance, my shoulders are so hairy it looks like I'm being snuck up on by two tarantulas. Gross, right? That's just a downside of being a male mammal. The on-head hair, however, is generally considered socially acceptable although it requires a ton of maintenance. And when the barbers cut the hair off, it usually just ends up in a landfill. + READ MORE

Drink Your Beer the Tasty and Sustainable Way on St. Patrick's Day By David DeFranza IN Food & Health Mar 9 2009 Syracuse, New York, the city in the United States with the highest per-capita St. Patrick's Day celebration, starts the festivities with a delivery of green-colored beer to a prominent Irish pub. Fortunately, you don't have to visit Coleman's Irish Pub, or stock up on food coloring, to drink green beer this St. Patty's Day. + READ MORE

What to do with a Broken Guitar Hero Guitar By Josh Peterson IN Tech & Transport Mar 5 2009 Who doesn't like Guitar Hero? It's a video game that let's you reenact those sweaty teenage fantasies you once had about being a rock star. Guitar Hero/Rock Band is so advanced now that you can sing, play bass or drums, just like Planet Green's Tommy Lee. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Reverse Logistics By Mickey Z. IN Tech & Transport Mar 5 2009 The process of collecting used products and materials from customers to be reused, recycled, or upcycled into other products is called reverse logistics. This process "treats these materials as valuable industrial nutrients instead of disposed of as trash. This is the complement to the traditional supply chain and distribution system used to produce and deliver products to customers." + READ MORE

Are Your Bathroom Habits Destroying Virgin Forests? By David DeFranza IN Home & Garden Mar 3 2009 Americans are hiding an eco-unfriendly secret in their bathrooms. It has nothing to do with the shower heads we use, or the gray water we waste and it has a greater impact on the environment than eating fast food in our Hummers. This secret, eco-sin, is our toilet paper. + READ MORE

Get Cash For Your Clunker? By Eric Leech IN Tech & Transport Mar 2 2009 We've had some requests from readers lately to receive more information about the current Cash For Clunkers Programs going on around North America. Regardless of which side of the fence you reside, pro clunker program or against, there are a lot of people upside-down on their payments towards a gas guzzler, which they'd... + READ MORE

Top 10 Ways to Make Your Hotel Stay Greener By Josh Peterson IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 2 2009 There are people who travel for work, salesmen and their ilk. Their company may not give a hoot or even a fig about environmental responsibility. They may book hotel rooms for these travelers by price or by location or just willy-nilly. That means it is up to the traveler to green their own hotel stay. + READ MORE

Where to Donate Old Trophies By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Feb 27 2009 There are plenty of crafty reuses for trophies. One can make a decorative yard ornament or put trophies in a terrarium with their turtle, or a person could make an .art piece that represents the 'inner trophy in all mankind.' But I don't hearken to crafty ideas. I like practical ideas. I'm no fun. My face is stern and pallid. See that little picture of me at the top of this web page? That?s the only time I've ever smiled. + READ MORE

5 Reuses For: Business Cards By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Work & Connect Feb 27 2009 They clutter our wallets and desk drawers, and sit in half-empty boxes long after we've moved on to a new job. We hate the clutter, but love how it makes us feel grown-up and important. The fact of the matter is, there's just no escaping business cards. But what to do about all those little pieces of card stock floating around? + READ MORE

How to Repair a Shoelace Aglet By Josh Peterson IN Fashion & Beauty Feb 26 2009 Shoelaces have to take a lot of wear and tear. Every time we set foot in our shoes, our shoelaces have to lash the footwear to our feet. Eventually, the shoelaces will wear from use. They begin their breakdown at the aglet, the plastic tip. + READ MORE

Support Green Phone Designs By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Feb 25 2009 For a long time now, 'green' phones have kind of been a joke. Sure, we can be green in how we use our phones, but finding phones that are actually made from recycled materials and work with our phone company plan is difficult. Thankfully, the industry seems to be getting the hint that we are sick of our cell phones costing in resources. If most of our phones are made from plastic, why aren't they made from recycled plastic? + READ MORE

Where to Find Used Bike Clothes Online By Josh Peterson IN Fashion & Beauty Feb 25 2009 There is more than one way to live a green lifestyle. You can bike to work instead of driving. You can wear clothes that had a previous owner. It's even better when you are able to combine one eco-friendly activity with another eco-friendly activity. For example, you can purchase used cycling clothes for your commute. + READ MORE

Get This Gossip Girl Look The Green Way By Elizabeth Seward IN Fashion & Beauty Feb 23 2009 Gossip Girl is more than a TV show. These days, Gossip Girl, in whole, is a fashion trendsetter. The girls on this show have become better known for their edgy getups than their drama. (Amen to that! I don't need to hear about how hard the lives of rich girls are anymore than I already do.) But the girls of Gossip Girl wear expensive clothes that I can't afford. And I don't even want to afford them. Especially if I don't have to. + 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

Blow Your Nose Less, Save on Congestion and Tissue By Elizabeth Seward IN Food & Health Feb 23 2009 If I had to pinpoint the worst thing about having a cold, I might just say it's the runny nose. Recent research has shown that blowing your nose to alleviate stuffiness actually reverses the flow of the mucus into the sinuses and slows drainage; causing more stuffiness in the end. + READ MORE