Category: Green news
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Explore your green choices at JP Selects
It’s always good to know that there are stores, whether online or in the real world, where you can turn to if you ever need to buy eco-friendlier items, and it’s always best to know exactly where they are and even to have all the brands and products you need within easy reach. So we’re…
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The 2011 Odwalla Plant A Tree Program kicks off!
If you want to help make sure the state parks in the U.S. stay green and full of trees, head on over to the 2011 Odwalla Plant A Tree website, where you can click on one of 50 state park systems in which you’d like to have a tree planted. The trees will be planted…
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An important achievement
I’m pleased to report that I’ve already influenced a few people to start refusing plastic bags when going shopping, as well as returning eating utensils and packets of ketchup whenever they order food to take home. It’s a pretty simple, easy-to-do step that can help reduce waste too. Now if only more restaurants are open…
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Backyard Composting
From the Lower East Side Ecology Center: If you live in the Big Apple, the New York City Compost Project in Manhattan is holding a basic composting class on May 14. It will be at the Carver Community Garden on 242 East 124th Street between 2nd and 3rd Avenues, New York, NY 10035. The registration…
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“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…
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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…
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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…
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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.
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One for One
Purchase a pair of TOMS shoes, and through their One for One program, a child in need gets a pair of new shoes. Join their One Day without Shoes this April 5th.