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Reducing Your Carbon Paw Print
Animal owners take note! Do not allow your precious dogs and cats (or any other pet companions) to pollute the planet unawares! You may not know it, but the products that are manufactured for your sweet little pooch or feline may be adding to the deterioration of our planet, and it?s not terribly surprising when you consider the [...]
Top 5 Colleges For Eco Friendly Majors
With the recent Gulf Coast oil spills, evidence of the polar ice caps melting, increased interest in organic farming and global climate changes, people are more concerned with conservation and preservation of the planet than ever. There are universities and colleges that have made changes as well, offering courses and degrees that focus on literally helping to make [...]
I Need to Wake Up By Melissa Etheridge
I saw Melissa Etheridge last weekend and had forgotten she wrote this song for The Inconvenient Truth. This is a great Eco Song and if you have a chance to see Melissa Etheridge, go, it was a great concert. Have I been sleeping? I?ve been so still Afraid of crumbling Have I been careless? Dismissing [...]
Top 5 Ways to instill Green Values in Your Kids
Throughout the course of your life, you have developed a strong sense of values when it comes to protecting our planet. You do everything in your power to keep the Earth even cleaner and greener than it was when you entered the world, and you do so not just for your own benefit, but so that it will [...]
Illegal Dumping Sites in Pennsylvania= 5000
PA Cleanways- The Lackawanna County survey is part of a statewide project by PA Cleanways, which works to fight illegal dumping and littering and to promote beautification. Since 2005, PA Cleanways members have driven roads across Pennsylvania, looking for illegal dumping. So far, in surveys of 49 counties, the organization has found more than 5,000 sites [...]
Top 5 Tips For Eco Friendly Decorating
Are you the type of person who is constantly re-inventing yourself through your clothing, hair, and home décor? Or maybe you are engaged in filling the empty spaces of your first home, or ditching the mismatched furniture set that you got from Mom, Dad, Grandma, and the dumpster when you first moved in to your house. Whatever your [...]
Eco Friendly Dorm Room Tips
Just because you?re going off to college and living in a dorm doesn?t mean you no longer have a carbon footprint. You may not be paying the electricity or water bills, but that shouldn?t stop you from conserving your energy, water and waste. Sure you?ll be living in a room that resembles a jail cell [...]
The Majestic Plastic Bag- A Story Of Plastic Bag Litter
Since I went on a 3 mile walk the other day and picked up 3 plastic bags wafting in the street, this mockumentary is so way too true, because I picked up one bag right before it went down a storm drain. DDB L.A. created this mockumentary for Southern California’s coastal environmental group, Heal the [...]
Clean, Green And Eco Friendly Lawn Care In San Diego
There are several things that drive me nuts about gardeners. 1.) I hate the ones that put their card, with a few rocks in a plastic bag and then proceed to drive up and down the streets throwing the plastic bag in peoples front yard. 2.) The ones that think that round up is the [...]
ReUse Dumpsters- A New Way Of Dumpster Diving
An avid fan of dumpster diving and reusing old dumpsters, I really loved what New York did with reusing dumpsters and making swimming pools as part of their annual Summer Streets program. The first pool was created by Marco Sea as a test for re-inventing old strip malls. More information on Yahoo Green Similar Posts: [...]