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Life Cycles of Consumable Goods: Lower-Impact Shades of Green

Renée Loux | Posted 10.22.2009 | Green

Read More: Fuel, Energy, No Impact Week, Lifestyle, Local, Renewable Energy, Green, Manufacturing, Personal Care Products, Recycled, Low-Impact, Lifecycle, Green Living, No Impact, Consumption, Paper, Home, Reduce, Consumerism, Nontoxic, Recycle, Green News, Environment, Reuse, Plastic, Food, Nontoxic Products, Green News
Renée Loux

Understanding the "life-cycle" of any consumable good offers a fairly accurate sense of how "green" it really is -- basically, where things come from and what happens to them when we are done with them.

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San Francisco Wasted Food Fines: Waste Not, Want Not

AP | MICHELLE LOCKE | Posted 07.12.2009 | Green

Read More: San Francisco Food Waste Fines, Food, Food Waste, Green Living, Reducing Waste, San Francisco-California, Reduce, Green News

SAN FRANCISCO — Trash collectors in San Francisco will soon be doing more than just gathering garbage: They'll be keeping an eye out for people ...

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When You Save Water, You Save Electricity (And Vice Versa)

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Electricity, Green Living, Saving Water, Giy, Water, Reduce, Green News

One of our aims at the Planet Green website, is to try and provide people with tips and tricks for saving energy and water. Usually, we round up littl...

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Six Earth Day Activities for Your Classroom

Ted Wells | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Earth Day Lesson Plans, Education, Eduction, Earth Day Worksheets, Recycle, Earth Day, Build, Parthenon, Earth Day Activities, Environment, Reuse, Teachers, Reduce, Earth Day Activities for Schools, Earth Day Classroom Activities, Earth Day Worksheet, Earth Day Activities for Kids, Green News
Ted Wells

Here are six activities that my fourth grade classroom at The Park School in Brookline, MA has been working on leading up to Earth Day.

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Tip #5: Deal With (Tire) Inflation

Emily Main | Posted 02.27.2009 | Green

Read More: Tire Inflation, Gasoline, Fuel Efficiency, Barack Obama, Smart Car, Climate Change, Environment, Oil, Conservation, Cars, Obama Inauguration Day, Reduce, Green News
Emily Main

Assuming all gasoline powered cars on American roads had properly inflated tires, drivers could cut gas consumption by 3.3 percent. That's about 13 million gallons of gas every day.

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Student YouTube Videos Save Trees

Ted Wells | Posted 02.02.2009 | Green

Read More: Save Trees, Cancel Catalogs, Education, Climate Change, Environment, Green, Youtube, Global Warming, Reduce, Video, Green News
Ted Wells

We made the videos as we canceled unwanted sales catalogs for 30 days to save trees, water, energy, and climate. Our school canceled over 3,000 this year saving 40 trees!

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Dear Santa, Stop Putting Catalogs in My Mailbox

Ted Wells | Posted 04.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Save Trees, Sales Catalogs, Climate Change, Green, Environment, Mail, Global Warming, Reduce, Green News
Ted Wells

Some of us recycle them, but more than half end up in the landfills where they decompose, releasing methane, an intense global warming gas. They're a massive misuse of natural resources and energy.

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Kids Cancel Catalogs to Save Trees and Planet

Ted Wells | Posted 04.18.2009 | Green

Read More: Save Water, Green, Environment, Save Trees, Sales Catalogs, Education, Green Living, Kids, Global Warming, Reduce, Green News
Ted Wells

At the school where I teach, we held a friendly "Catalog Canceling Challenge" among grades three, four, and five to see which group of kids could cancel the most catalogs in thirty days.

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Greening Hollywood: Enchanted Green Hallow's Eve

Paige Donner | Posted 11.27.2008 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Green Halloween, Pythons, Eco-Haunted House, Hallow's Eve, U.S. Fish and Wildlife, Rescue Animals, Costume Competition, Culver City Los Angeles, Recycle, Halloween Costumes, NOAA Fisheries, Star Theater, Snakes, Trick-or-Treating, Reduce, Pumpkins, Environmentalist, Re-Use, Santa Monica Bay Keeper, Eco-Funhouse, Pocahontas, Ecostation, Greening Hollywood, Green News
Paige Donner

Ecostation... has created an environmentally aware Haunted Fun House for kids and parents that offers an afternoon of trick-or-treating and learning about Earth's animal-kingdom inhabitants.

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HOTELS TAKING "GOING GREEN" TO NEW TOPS WITH GREEN ROOFS

Stefanie Michaels | Posted 11.10.2008 | Green

Read More: Stefanie Michaels, Shanghai, Chicago, Audubon Society, Green, China, Greenlodgingnews.com, Mirror Lake, Leed, New York, Reuse, Golden Arrow Lakeside Resort, Green Seal Certification, Lake PLacid, Recycle, Hotels, Environmental, Adventure Girl, Environment, North America, Green Weddings, Reduce, Songjiang Hotel, Wildlife, Intercontinental Hotel, Baltimore, Green Roofs, Hvac, Hilton, Green News
Stefanie Michaels

Hotels are looking for new ways to run more efficiently and looking to nature to give them some ideas. The latest in green technology is allowing hote...

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The Toxic Crime of the Century

Jackie Fuchs | Posted 10.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Waste Disposal, Mexico, Mafia, Italy, Sex Lies Videotape, Garbage, Reduce, Epa, Environmental Protection Agency, Camorra, Recycle, Fish, Environment, Naples, Hazardous Waste, Reuse, Toxic Waste, Bacteria, Plastic Bags, China, Green News
Jackie Fuchs

For months now, Campania has been suffocating under heaps of uncollected garbage shipped from economically sound northern Italian regions to the much poorer south.

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Life Cycle: Life After Desk

Simran Sethi | Posted 08.05.2008 | Green

Read More: Chairs, Landfills, Volatile Organic Compounds, Desk, Reduce, Glues, Environmental, Office Furniture, Green Office, Recycle, Wooden, Varnishes, Environment, Waste, Reuse, Sarah Smarsh, Deforestation, Simran Sethi, Vocs, Green News
Simran Sethi

Often, the greenest consumer route is not buying new products made with Earth-friendly methods but rather scoring used products made with traditional, possibly heinous methods. Reduce, reuse, then recycle.

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The Top 5 Regifting No-No's

Olivia Zaleski | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living

Read More: Christmas Gifts, Top 5 Re-Gifting No-No’s, The Giving Life, Olivia Zaleski, Emily Post Etiquette, Terrible Christmas Gifts, Recycle...Regift, How to Re-Gift, Bad Christmas Gifts, Regifting, Reduce, Reuse, Living News
Olivia Zaleski

It's the day after Christmas. Aside from feeling fat and hungover, you're probably wondering how you'll get rid of all the terrible gifts you've colle...

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