From scraps to seedlings… How to start your veggies in recycled houshold waste instead of plastic containers.
A friend of mine shared this idea with me that she found in one of her gardening magazines. We added a few of our own changes and presto! Our vegetable starts now have a zero impact, 100% recycled home to take root in.
Starting your own is fun and simple. The kids will love the idea [...]
A new green trend
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Auric Blends Natural Perfumes
Since the late 19th century, perfumes have enticed our senses. Yet even the most expensive perfumes are loaded with petrochemicals, many toxic to humans. A 1991 EPA study found many perfumes include potentially hazardous chemicals like acetone (used as a cleaning solvent), benzyl acetate (a solvent used in plastics), ethanol (grain alcohol), ethyl acetate (a [...]
AT&T goes for green packaging
AT&T announced they plan to make their mobile phones, devices and packaging more eco-friendly.
Instead of utilizing the dreaded plastic clamshell (it’s so difficult to open), the telecommunications company will ship batteries in paper boxes.
The company anticipates a reduction of 30% in plastic packaging and a 60% reduction in paper packaging with their eco efforts.
They also plan [...]
From e-waste to road signs?
An Austin, Texas company has created a line of eco-friendly road signage – from discarded electronic waste!
To learn more about Image Microsystems’ innovative green product, check out http://3.ly/PEO.
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Travel-sized necessities go Green
To satisfy consumer demand, manufacturers have created small, travel-size versions of our favorite products. At the same time, Americans throw away 2.5 million plastic bottles per hour! It’s an environmental scourge – harmful to wildlife, threatening our oceans and marine life, and scientists believe it will take hundreds of years to degrade.
Los Angeles-based Minimus recently [...]
An eco-friendly Rechargeable Battery that’s ahead of the pack
Rechargeable batteries have been around for years. We often have a love-hate relationship with them, mainly because:
they’re usually expensive
but they last a lot longer
Now there’s a rechargeable battery that meets both those challenges. The PowerGenix NiZn rechargeable battery is moderately priced, is long lasting and is recyclable too.
Check out what this new rechargeable has to offer – [...]
Chocolate anyone? A different kind of Valentine
With Valentine’s Day around the corner, I’d be remiss if I didn’t do a few posts about innovative, eco-friendly gift ideas. Not my normal thing, but this holiday brings out some cool products I thought I’d mention. So in-between my usual “new” stories, here are a few fun ones.
Chocolate lovers will love this one. And with a name [...]
“How green are you?” – the latest couples debate?
According to a recent New York Times article, therapists are reporting an increase in bickering between couples and family members about how green they’re willing to become.Food in particular – whether it’s buying or eating habits – seems to be an emotionally charged issue. It seems that for some, battle lines are being drawn and [...]
A proven, eco-friendly way to kill the H1N1 virus
Use water to kill the H1N1 virus?
Sounds ludicrous, but recent lab tests confirm that the new ionator EXP™ and ionator HOM™ by Activeion Cleaning Solutions LLC does the job.
These simple hand-held devices ionize plain tap water, activating and convert it into a powerful dirt-removing and bacteria-killing product. Tests show that these devices kill the H1N1 influenza A virus in [...]
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