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  • Water Changes Everything

    Would you consider making a donation to Charity: Water this Earth Day?

  • Bring your own mug to Starbucks and get free coffee

    If you’re a regular Starbucks customer, you can bring your reusable travel mug this Earth Day, 22 April and they’ll fill it with coffee or tea for free. It’s their way of saying “thank you” for doing your part in reducing your environmental footprint. If you don’t have a reusable mug, you can purchase one…

  • “2010 Cool Roofing Tax Credit: 10 Things You Need to Know”

    Are you done with your taxes? If not, we’d like to share some information from our friends over at The Roofery. (Article reprinted with permission. Original article can be found here.) 2010 Cool Roofing Tax Credit: 10 Things You Need to KnowOne of the most promising Green innovations within the roofing industry of the past…

  • Walker Elementary School wins “Find your Footprint”!

    Walker Elementary School’s video “Helping the World and Saving Our Future” won the “Find Your Footprint” contest sponsored by P&G; Future Friendly, the National Geographic Society, and Promethean. What’s included in their grand prize package valued at $36,000? five Promethean interactive whiteboards (ActivBoards),  five sets of Promethean Learner Response Systems (ActivExpressions),  30 subscriptions to National Geographic…

  • Dasani’s and Odwalla’s new PlantBottle packaging unveiled

    The Coca-Cola Company unveiled their brand-new PlantBottle packaging, “the first-ever fully recyclable plastic beverage bottle produced using plants”, for Dasani water and Odwalla juice. What is PlantBottle packaging? PlantBottle packaging is 100 percent recyclable packaging that combines petroleum-based materials with up to 30% plant-based materials, specifically 100% renewable sugarcane-based ethanol from Brazil. “Traditional PET bottles…

  • Vanishing of the Bees

    “If the bee disappeared off the surface of the globe, then man would have only four years of life left. No more bees, no more pollination, no more plants, no more animals, no more man.”~ Albert Einstein. I want to see this documentary.

  • Sell your Cell

    Flipswap is a website that will give you cash for your old cell phone. They will recycle it or resell it. They will also plant a tree for each recycled phone. Get your free shipping label at Greenphone.