More work needs to be done in the food industry with take-out boxes and take-home containers. Here’s a good option for pizza boxes: WWW.GREENBOXNY.COM, Sned this info to your local pizza places and get them to start being smarter and more responsible about their waste. To watch the video on how it works click here.
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Environmental working group website. Loaded with rating and tip, information and research on products. Some topics include: Chemical Index/Energy Tips/Farming/Health/Sunscreens/Toxins and much much more. Get the real information on what we are consuming and being exposed to so we can make healthy choices.
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Follow-Up Tests of Leading Personal Care and Household Cleaning Brands Reveal Improvements in Levels of Carcinogenic 1,4-dioxane But New Study Indicates Some Products Mislabeled as “Natural” Should Have Cancer Warning 3/6/2009 ANAHEIM, CA – Today, a new follow-up study was released that assesses levels of the petrochemical carcinogen 1,4-dioxane in leading conventional as well as [...]
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This is an AWESOME reference site: http://www.howtogetridofstuff.com/ Need to get rid of something? Anything? Anything you can think of is posted here. Check it out.
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Well, its coming up on two months of not buying new this weekend. Overall its been pretty easy, but I’ve slipped up a couple of times. Mostly in regards to biking — some parts here & there, the Xtracycle. Also had one relapse to Target and bought a few kid’s books (including The Lorax, one [...]
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Yes you can’t even buy a freaking pie without it being encased in a huge clam of plastic. It already comes in a tin plate for crying out loud – why do you need to suffocate it? You can’t recycle that stuff either. I’ve got a bag of that kind of stuff sitting there cause [...]
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photo: Kang Kim for TIME This week’s time magazine has a very good article about a woman who has taken on an experiment, much like ours, to eradicate plastic from her life. Not an easy task. This article an interesting and scarey look into how much plastics has become an unavoidable part of our lives. [...]
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So I’ve coasting along. Its already July 10 – summer is flying by as always. Still hanging in there with the nothing new challenge. I need to get two house warming gifts and a baby gift. I should be able to come up with something handmade, but not feeling overly inspired at the moment. I [...]
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So. I really, really want to be able to bring my dog to work with me again. He was our office dog but since I’ve been biking, he has been completely dejected. I tried him in the kid’s Burly, but it was designed for kids and his head was smushed when he stood up. He [...]
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