Preparing your home the hottest months of the year can save money and electricity. Avoid doing heat-producing chores such as cooking and running the clothes dryer during peak sunlight hours, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Close window shades to limit the amount
Summertime means keeping up with regular pedicures and parading your feet in great sandals. Whether you love flats or heels, casual or dressy, colors or earth tones, we've picked our top 10 sexy summer sandal styles with something for every taste.
<p>SIGG reusable water bottles teams up with Stop Global Warming to bring us this great I Am Not Plastic bottle. Stop Global Warming gets all of the net proceeds from the sales of this bottle.</p>
Do you scoff at company-made labels (i.e. internal labels) and only go for the non-profit, third party born eco-labels when buying green office supplies? Or do you take both with a grain of salt, comparing the merits of "private" and "public" labels?
What would it take for you to revolt against every accepting a plastic bag from a store again? A sea animal choking on one?Every time a shopper chooses paper or plastic they have to make the wrong choice, but are not even offered the right one!
There are literally hundreds of different ways you can reuse a plastic soda bottle. Just remember to thoroughly wash the bottle of all its liquid so you won't contaminate whatever you put inside.
Collecting plastic fosters the belief that, like aluminum and glass, the recovered material is converted into new containers. None of the plastic containers from are being made into containers again but into unrecyclable secondary products.
Verterra have created the slam dunk of bio based serviceware: Their plates are made 100% from fallen leaves and water. Nothing else. And they can be used in an oven, microwaved, have hot fluids in them, be refrigerated, even reused. Really? Yes. How?
It can filter 1,000 liters a day, using only 500 watts of electricity per hour. To put that into perspective, a toaster uses about 1,000 watts every time you make toast.
It's no secret that a lot of people like a nice cold beer after a long day of work. But did you know those empty beer bottles can become a part of your home?
One way you can sport flip flops while also saving the environment is to purchase recycled flip flops. These flip flops are often made from reused materials such as rubber tires, fabric and cork, so they help reduce landfill waste.
Ever wonder what happens to those seasonal banners in malls? Thrown out, mostly. In Vancouver, they make them into stylish shopping bags, the proceeds going to create more green spaces there. And they can go even further, with biodegradable. Check it out!
