Reducing Waste

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Amazing Dissolving Plastic Packaging

Creative Review | Posted 10.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Recycling, Trash, Landfills, Creative Review Magazine, Green Living, Green-Packaging, Green Products, Reducing Waste, Magazines, Green News

Newsstand copies of the November issue of CR come in a revolutionary new bag that simply dissolves in hot water. No waste. No landfill....

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Air Travel Made Greener: 4 Tips

Avital Binshtock | Posted 10.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Fuel, Carbon Emissions, Luggage, Green, Airplanes, Travel, Air Travel, Paper, Recycling, Carbon Offsets, Waste, Plastic, Flight, Planes, Weight Loss, Sierra Club, Airlines, Reducing Waste, Customer Service, Baggage, Green News

Though air travel is unavoidable at times, there are a few things responsible travelers can do to make flights greener.

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50 Ways To Never Waste Food Again

planetgreen.discovery.com | Colleen Vanderlinden | Posted 10.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Home Cooking, Compost, Composting, Food, Sustainability, Pickling, Green Living, Food Waste, Reducing Waste, Green News

With a little creativity, and an eye toward vanquishing waste in our lives, we can make use of more of our food before it goes to waste....

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Why Quality Matters, Even in Tough Times

Jennifer Grayson | Posted 08.24.2009 | Living

Read More: Consumerism, Organic Food, Budget Shopping, Recession, Reducing Waste, Recycling, Spending, Living News

If every time we pulled out our wallets, we stopped to think about whether or not we really needed something we might have more money left over for things that are truly valuable.

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Green News Report - June 18, 2009 (Audio)

Brad Friedman and Desi Doyen | Posted 07.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy Efficiency, Asbestos in Libby Montana, Water, Waxman-Markey, Epa, United Nations, Green News, Green, Climate Change, Green News Report, Energy Policy, Reducing Waste, Solar Power, Bottled Water, Green News

IN TODAY'S AUDIO REPORT:: Energy legislation fight now moves to the Senate; Climate change outlook now worse than before; Libby, MT now a "public hea...

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Libraries Save Money And Other Resources

thedailygreen.com | Posted 07.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Paper Waste, Paper, Reducing Waste, Books, Giy, Libraries, Green News

Instead of buying small mountains of books, CDs, DVDs and even magazines that you barely use, check materials out of your neighborhood library, or rel...

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How to Fix a Broken Zipper: Make Those Clothes Last

Zipper Repair | Lorain Blanken, About.com | Posted 07.13.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Green Fashion, Reducing Waste, Giy, Fix a Zipper, Green News

How to repair a broken zipper. Sometimes the teeth on a zipper don't line up right, causing the zipper to catch. At this point, most people will get r...

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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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Google London Removes Employee Trash Cans To Promote Recycling

Mother Nature Network | Posted 07.05.2009 | Green

Read More: Three R's, Recycling, Google Trash Cans, Green Business, Reducing Waste, Google, Green News

Google's removal of employee trash cans is an ingenious idea. It costs nothing for a business to remove the item and direct employees to a centralized...

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Greener Shaving Now! Do Away With Disposables (VIDEO)

Grist | Posted 07.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Green Shaving, Green Grooming, Green Living, Shaving, Water, Reducing Waste, Giy, Green News

How green is your grooming routine? Shaving is one place where a lot of Americans end up wasting a lot of water -- and other stuff. Grist's Umbra say...

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Lose The Dryer, Save The Money

Chelsea Green | Makenna Goodman | Posted 06.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Dryer, Green Living, Reducing Waste, Giy, Chelsea Green, Green News

Guest post by Chelsea Green's Makenna Goodman: Behold the classic domestic duos of the past: Ricki and Lucy. Ozzie and Harriet. Bennifer. Tom and Jer...

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Square Toilet Paper Begs You Not To Waste It

treehugger.com | Posted 06.26.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Square Toilet Paper, Toilet Paper, Reducing Waste, Paper, Green News

Ban reduced the amount of paper that rolls off the tube by making it square instead of round, so that what you take is what you really need. According...

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Save 60 Gallons Of Water In One Day

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 06.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Green Living, Reducing Waste, Water, Giy, Green News

You can save 60 gallons of water today without spending any money (I'm going to assume you own some of the things that I mention, like a 1000 sq ft ga...

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Cool Reuse: Cardboard Packaging Transforms Into Hangar

treehugger.com | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Green Living, Reducing Waste, Green Technology, Hangarpak, Resue, Green News

Packaging is a tough one. You can often reduce the amount used, but you still need something to protect what you're shipping. One solution is to make ...

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Broken Earbuds Become Eco-Earrings

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 06.20.2009 | Green

Read More: Reuse, Green Living, E-Waste, Reducing Waste, Giy, Green News

Headphones are some of the toughest things to reuse. To add to that problem, cheap earbud headphones (you know, the kind that came with your iPod) are...

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Does Turning Off Your Computer Really Save Energy?

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 06.19.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Computers, Green Living, Saving Energy, Reducing Waste, Giy, Green News

According to the United States Department of Energy, there are no computers on the market that actually last long enough for the negative effects of t...

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5 Reasons To Find A Farm And Pick Your Own

Chelsea Green | Posted 06.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Eating Matters, Food, Green Living, Saving Energy, Reducing Waste, Giy, Green News

Yep. Anyone can farm for a day, and then have a freezer stocked with fresh goods for the rest of the season. And the news gets better. You don't need ...

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"Greenest Office Building In The World" Breaks Ground

Denver Business Journal | Posted 06.08.2009 | Green

Read More: Energy, Green Living, Green Business, Reducing Waste, Green News

The 218,000-square-foot, $64 million structure will house 700 employees and is scheduled to be completed in 2010. Funding for the building is coming ...

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What a Waste: New Homes Demolished by Bank

Maura Judkis | Posted 06.06.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Environment, Banks, Housing Market, Environmentally-Friendly-Demolition, Reducing Waste, Housing Crisis, Green News

A bank has decided to demolish new homes because it was cheaper than selling them in this market.It's a sign of just how bad the housing market has gotten and a troubling example of our culture of disposability.

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KINDLE DX: Big-Screen Kindle Could SAVE RESOURCES While Making Bank

Huffington Post | Dave Burdick | Posted 06.04.2009 | Green

Read More: Amazon.com, Kindle Screen Size, Green Technology, E-Books, Big Screen Kindle, Kindle DX, Big Kindle, Amazon Kindle, Kindle for Textbooks, Reducing Waste, Kindle DX Leak, Slideshow, Green News

I've been seeing more and more Kindles on the trains lately, and maybe it's just because I'm about to move a ton of books yet again -- that is, rent a...

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Bottled Water Vs. Tap Water: Health Spotlight

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 05.29.2009 | Green

Read More: Water, Tap Water, Environment, Waste, Plastic, Pollution, Reducing Waste, Bottled Water, Green News

According to a study by the Environmental Working Group, bottled water is just as polluted as a tap water. In fact, twenty percent of bottled water ha...

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Low-Flow Showerhead: A Low-Stress Way Of Cutting Back

Dave Burdick | Posted 05.28.2009 | Green

Read More: Green Living, Saving Water, Saving Money, Reducing Waste, Water, Giy, Green News

Here's the easiest go-green effort I've never done: install a low-flow showerhead. So the people at Niagara Conservation were kind enough to send me ...

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Make Earth Day Every Day With Earth Day Resolutions

planetgreen.discovery.com | Posted 05.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Earth Day Resolutions, Earth Day 2009, Earth Day, Earth Day Activities, Green Living, Giy, Reducing Waste, Green News

I don't want to rain on the parade, but I'm not 100 percent in love with Earth Day. Don't get me wrong--I love the awareness and the fact that project...

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Book Publishers Set Green Goals

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.17.2009 | Green

Read More: Publishing, Books, Waste, Green Business, Pollution, Paper, Reducing Waste, Green News

NEW YORK — The publishing industry has been fitted for 20-20-20 vision. The Book Industry Environmental Council, a coalition of publishers, boo...

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Marriott To Drop Automatic Newspaper Delivery To Guests

environmentalleader.com | Posted 05.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Waste, Marriott, Newspapers, Deforestation, Reducing Waste, Green News

The company says that guest demand for newspaper delivery at more than 2,600 hotels in the U.S. has declined by about 25 percent. Marriott Rewards ...

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