Archive for December, 2009

Check out this Green Christmas song! Full of helpful green tips with the spirit of the season.

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Eco-fashion and green designers have come a long way from working with just hemp and serving the hippie set. Now, green fashion can be high fashion and whether you are just looking go green on a budget for splurge for eco-couture there is a wide range of stylish eco-fashion available for the holidays.

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1. Use only LED lights for outdoor decorating. They use just 1/20th the energy of incandescent lights.

2. Don’t use inflatable decorations.Depending on size, they can use as much power as 6 CFL bulbs

3. Put all the lights you do use on a timer, that way they won’t stay on all night or at times when your not home.

4. Buy locally made organic wreaths or take a trip the woods and create your own wreath out of fallen greenery.

5. Shop local for gifts or make them yourself through upcycling.

6. Don’t buy battery-operated toys. You can make them yourself or purchase the many hand generated powered toys.

7. Choose items with minimal packaging. Wrap items in old magazines, newspapers that you decorate yourself. You can also wrap items in fabric as an extra gift.

8.Cut up some old Christmas cards and use those to make gift tags.

9. But local handcrafts or make your own, such as sweaters and scarves.

10. Overall, when it comes to the holiday season don’t go for that typical American ideal of “more,more, more” but rather start thinking of “less is more”. Make things more personal and you may just end starting new and eco-friendly holiday traditions of your own.

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Many people recycle paper everyday. They use the recycle bins for their local community or they drop off their paper waste at various recycling drop off centers. There is another option available, where your household won’t be adding paper to the community bins.
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Vulcana is a sub company or American Eagle who takes tires from landfills in the United States and recycled them. They have a patented recycling process that takes the tire chunks and reforms them to a sheet style rubber. The resulting rubber material is called rubbReTM . The material is water and scratch resistant, easily cleaned with a damp cloth and sturdy enough to be fashioned into backpacks or laptop bags.
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The Importance of Christmas Tree Recycling

Christmas tree recycling Christmas tree recycling is vital so millions of douglas firs and blue spruces are not wasted every year, thrown away only to increase the space used in local landfills. Instead they can be utilized to their fullest potential through local recycling services. Over thirty million trees are chopped down every year to be decorated and enjoyed during the holiday season. Once cut down, tree farmers generally plant new trees. Re-planting combined with Christmas tree recycling makes these evergreens a renewable resource, much more environmentally-friendly than artificial trees, which are made with synthetic materials which eventually end up in landfills.

From BStone at BrightHub Read more: http://www.brighthub.com/environment/green-living/articles/58674

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From gristTV: Radiohead’s Thom Yorke showed up at the last minute at the climate talks in Copenhagen. He wanted to see what was happening firsthand, especially since NGOs have been taken out of the Bella Center, where the talks are being held.

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Going the click and give route is a good way to stay green for the holiday, while helping to make the world a better place. Here we take a look at some great click and give programs online and all you have to do is click. It’s that simple, click and give.

Take some time out of your day and visit the following programs to help make someone else’s Christmas a better one.

Animal Rescue Site:  Click daily to help provide food, shelter and medical care to rescued animals.

The Hunger Site: Click daily to help provide food for those who have none.

Give A Smile: Your free click generates a donation from Tom’s of Maine to support dental care through the Tom’s of Maine Dental Health for All™ program. You may click once a day, every day. 100% of the donations raised go to community organizations that provide dental care to people who would otherwise go without. You can help fill in the gap in dental coverage access, just by clicking. In conjunction with care2.

Global Warming: Your free click generates donations from our sponsors. You may click once a day, every day. 100% of the donations raised go directly to Carbonfund.org, which supports renewable energy, energy efficiency and reforestation projects globally that reduce carbon dioxide emissions and the threat of climate change. In conjunction with care2.

Save Our Oceans:  Click once a day, every day. 100% of the donations raised go directly to Oceana to save our oceans through policy, advocacy and research. Oceana’s scientists, lawyers and advocates work around the world to protect corals, make seafood safe, save sea turtles and more! In conjunction with care2.

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Recycled Card Board Tree *Enter to win this tree through Recycle Now!

Made from 200 pieces of  cardboard that was cut from reject factory sheets, this tree is both eco-friendly and a work of art.

The cardboard used was made from recycled paper.

Check out the tree designers in action below and don’t forget to go to Recycle Now! and enter to win this tree!

Making of our Cardboard Christmas Tree from RecycleNow on Vimeo.

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Care2 has taken a different spin on the regular e-cards that you can get through Hallmark or American Greetings. Each time you choose to send an eCard from their selection they donate to save a square foot of rainforest land. With over nine million members for Care2 that is a lot of land saved.

The Care2 goal is to make it easier for people to make the world a greener place with many simple actions such as writing action notices or sending eco eCards. Care2’s eCard selection includes over 25,000 free animated and non-animated cards with 224 in the Christmas category.

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