Freecycle!

The Freecycle Network™ is made up of many individual groups across the globe. It's a grassroots, nonprofit movement of people who are giving (& getting) stuff for free in their own towns.

When you want to find a new home for something -- whether it's a chair, a fax machine, piano, or an old door -- you simply send an e-mail offering it to members of the local Freecycle group.

Or, maybe you're looking to acquire something yourself. Simply respond to a member's offer, and you just might get it. After that, it's up to the giver to decide who receives the gift and to set up a pickup time for passing on the treasure.

Related Links:

http://www.freecycle.org/

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Walking or Cycling instead of riding the bus/driving a car is healthy for the person and decreases pollution. It often saves you money for fuel, parking and traveling fares.

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If you have to drive, at least drive hybrid.

Hybrids are cars that run off a rechargeable battery and gasoline, rather than just gasoline.

Hybrid batteries help to reduce fuel emissions because the hybrid engine draws on the battery and not gasoline when accelerating. Hybrid gasoline motors can shut off when the car is stopped and run off their electricity

Learn more about hybrid cars

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Paper to Cloth!

Paper towels and napkins create alot of waste and pollution.

Reduce the use of such products by using cloth napkins and cloth towels. These can be washed and cleaned rather then be thrown away after one use.

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Reuse and Reduce Plastic Bags

Plastic bags thrown away take thousands of years to be exhausted. Not only that, plastic bags are light in weight, they easily fly and land in oceans and strangle marine life who believe them to be jellyfish.
The solution is simple - reuse and reduce. Bring the old bags to the supermarket rather then take new ones. If we use every bag we get at least one more time, we'd already reduce plastic bags' waste by 50%!

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Click to donate

The internet has become a great tool to make a difference in the world. Charity websites have learned to use the power of this mass media to collect fees from advertisers in their website. The money gathered is used to fight hunger, poverty and diseases, and promote health, education and development in developing countries as well as environmental issues worldwide.

So now you can make a real difference while surfing the net. All you have to do is click and you'll do your own small part in making the world a better place.

To see a thorough list of Click to Donate Links:

http://thenonprofits.com/

Thanks to Ann S. for the good tip!

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In today's world Cloth diapers have almost become extinct. Meanwhile our landfills are gaushing with disposable plastic diapers that will take a millenia to decompose.

Moving back to Cloth Diapers will be healthier for the baby, will prevent enormous amounts of waste and save us from drowning in plastic and poo.

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               Wendy F.
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Check the tires.

Have your wheels aligned and keep your tires properly inflated. Low tire pressure wastes over two million gallons of gasoline in the United States every day.

For every pound of pressure below recommended levels, fuel economy drops 1 percent. Keeping your tires properly inflated means saving about a tank of gas a year.

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Installing flow restrictor aerators inside all taps will save 3 to 4 gallons per minute!

Another way to conserve water is to install a flow restrictor in your toilets. This will enable you to flush half a tank in cases when a full toilet tank is just too much.

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Wherever you are traveling, please keep in mind that you have an impact on the environments you travel through.

Please Rafrain from feeding animals for the following reasons:

 Wildlife can be susceptible to human diseases. They can actually die from bacteria transferred from you, which have no ill effect on humans.

Irregular feeding leads to an aggressive behavior towards humans and other species.

When we feed an animal, we are actually affecting its` natural diet. Fruits, especially those containing pesticides, can upset their digestive system or cause dental problems that can lead to death.

Feeding creates a dangerous dependency on humans that diminishes the wildlife’s survival capabilities.

Feeding interferes with the wildlife’s natural habits and upsets the balance of their lifestyles.

Contact with humans facilitates poaching and the trade in illegal wildlife and makes them an easy target for hunters.

Please, help us spread the word, be an ecotourist by explaining to your fellow companions.

Please let nature take its own course!

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The following Web Page link does not work and is likely expired:

"The Full Tips List October 17, 2005 4:21 AM
Here I will update on a weekly basis, the list of Tips that we gathered in our discussions I truely hope that we will achieve the goal of 1001 soon

These tips will be upload to my website at http://www.geocities.com/luke_the_rose/landlord.htm so that everyone who surfs the net may find them."

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i have just stumbled on this list and found the links do not work. i would like to see the full list, can anyone point me to where it's located currently?

thanks, orfan

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I have return after being absent for a long time.

I will open up a new site for the list.

I must point that the full list is not yet ready, we are building it through discussions and ideas. that's why this group exist.

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If your grocery store has a bulk section, consider using it.  It's a lot cheaper and you're considerably reducing the packaging.  Once you get your loot home, air tight, glass Fido jars are a great way to store your stuff.

(a annonymous tip)

Please remember that this tip refers to things you need. There's no point in buying things that will rot or decay in bulk. Be a wise consumer.

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As someone who studied and lived in north America, I was really surprised as to how few pressure cookers I saw in domestic use.

Using a pressure cooker means considerable savings of fuel bills and, being energy efficient, you also save on fossils fuels either directly or indirectly.

Can someone take this initiative forward and calcute how many joules of energy one saves using a pressure cooker for two in a year?

Ashis 

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Hello all ~

I'm enjoying the info in this group, all very helpful ideas!  I am having a difficult time finding an alternative to plastic cling wrap when I store leftovers.  I don't like using plastic containers because I never think they are clean enough and I won't re-heat in them. Any ideas?  Thanks

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This is an example of a teacher's plea from http://www.donorschoose.org .  It's very cool.  Please check it out!  Most requests are for books and other supplies, but there are other needs too.  This poor teacher needs chairs!  Imagine trying to teach with all the kids squirming in uncomfortable and broken, too-tiny chairs!  Anyway, check it out!  To help this particular teacher meet her goal, search for "chairs" at the homepage.

y second graders greatly need better chairs to sit in. Our school is a Title I school with 67% of my students receiving free or reduced lunch. Many of our chairs are broken and the others are far too small (kindergarten chairs).

I feel that my students would benefit greatly from being more comfortable and less distracted by broken chairs. I hope that this will increase their ability to concentrate and listen. I know that every child in my class, as well as, students in the future would benefit from this gift. Thank you!!

The cost of 18 Vicro Manufacturing Stack Chairs is $1,039, including shipping and fulfillment.

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Leagh, that is a very good site.  They perform the due diligence.  I wonder if there are other sites that service other nonprofits rather than schools?

It is also a great example about how the philanthropy business is changing (I think for the better).  This kind of site allows people to fund projects directly, and bypasses a lot of the overhead associated with giving.

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Dear friends,

I have decided to drop the idea of uploading the full list to a website since it is much easier for me to upload it to a blog and will be much more accessible to the users as well.

The Full Tips List will be published here but will also be published on http://1001greentips.blogspot.com/

Feel free to comment there and to subscribe to it if you wish to recieve updates.

I will try to upload tips on a daily basis.

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