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  • Watch yourself

    While waiting for my watch band to be replaced today, I walked around the jewelry store and saw that Citizen has a line of eco-friendly watches. Called Eco-Drive, they are powered by natural or artificial light. They won’t need battery changes and can work up to 9 months in the dark if fully charged.

  • Review: ShiKai shampoo and conditioner

    ShiKai Natural Everyday Shampoo Ingredients: water, aloe vera gel (full strength, certified organic), ShiKai extract (acacia concinna – wildcrafted botanical, organically grown and sustainably harvested), olefin sulfonate, cocoamidopropyl hydroxy ShiKai Natural Everyday Conditioner Ingredients: Purified water, cetearyl alcohol (and) ceteareth-20, glycerin (vegetable), amla (amlica embilicus) seed oil, jojoba (simmondsia chinensis) seed oil, behentrimonium chloride, amodimethicone,…

  • Homemade furniture polish

    I do love the smell of Pledge, as it makes furniture smell all clean and non-dusty, but unfortunately, it’s just packed with chemicals. I found this lovely tip on making homemade furniture polish and it’s easy-peasy (lemon squeezy!). Just squeeze five lemons and mix it with a cup of olive oil. Voila! Furniture polish!

  • Green Mobile Phone

    T-Mobile is now offering a green account with paperless billing statements, e-mail updates and Easy Pay automatic bill payments. If you sign up, a tree will be planted on your behalf by the Arbor Day Foundation. If you do so by the 31st of May, you can get a chance to win a 6-day eco-adventure…

  • Plan It Green

    You think you can do a good job of creating and running your own green city? Now there’s a chance for you to show it! Try playing Merscom and National Geographic Games’ Plan It Green. Here are the system requirements for Windows: * OS: Windows XP/2000/Vista * CPU: 600 Mhz * RAM: 256 MB/512 MB…

  • Liar, Liar

    If you have Fine Living Network, you might have watched Big Green Lies presented by Seventh Generation‘s president Jeffrey Hollender this past Earth Day. In case you missed it, it’ll be re-aired on 02 May at 2 PM EST.

  • Sylvania’s giving away free ice cream in NYC!

    Do you live in New York City? This bit of fun news made me wish I did. In celebration of Earth Day, SYLVANIA (the lighting innovations leader) will have an ice cream truck roaming the streets of New York City and giving away FREE soft serve ice cream (yeah, coz they have those swirly-shaped CFL…

  • 5 quick & easy tips to save energy

    Earth Day’s coming up! Thanks to our friends from Retrevo for sharing these energy-saving tips. 1. Turn off devices when you’re not using them – especially game consoles and TVs. Large plasma TVs are the biggest hogs but game machines are a close second. Shutting down game players in the U.S. for just 24 hours…

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