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Do One Thing: Buy Checks Made From Recycled Paper & Printed With Soy-Based Ink.

This weeks Do One Thing is about the checks that you write. If you are anything like me, you don’t write many checks at all – I think I write about 2 or 3 a month at most with everything else being paid automatically online (the greenest way to go). But because we ran [...]

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Do One Thing: Switch To Recycled Content Toilet Paper.

This is an easy one that you won’t even have to suffer for! If every household in America switched out just ONE roll of regular TP for recycled TP, we would:
Save 470,000 trees,
Use 1.2 million cubic feet LESS landfill space
Save about 169 million gallons of water
Now imagine if you switched out all your rolls! [...]

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5 Free And Green Gift Wrapping Tips.

I wrote this post for the holidays last year, but hey – it’s that time of year again so I thought I would bring it back to the forefront again. If you have any tips to add, please leave them in the comment section! Store bought wrapping paper, while it looks nice [...]

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Terracycle: Upcycling Plastic Bottles Into New Products.

About a month ago or so, the people from Terracycle sent me a box full of their products to try out. I have written about Terracycle before when talking about the lack of plastic recycling here in town, and I have always been envious that I had not thought of their idea – upcycling [...]

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