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New Year’s Resolution – Recycle more than you do now

Green New Year’s

I know it is a little late for New Year’s Resolutions but better late than never. For those of you out there who are looking to change your lives, why not do that by contributing to saving the environment? I am asking you to do one thing this year. [...]

January 9th, 2010 | Tags: , , , , , , , , , , , | Category: Water, energy, paper, recycle | Leave a comment

Zero waste plans in Austin fall short

I would love to compost but I can’t because I rent my house and it takes about a year to get a compost going. I think Austin should start a compost program for all residents. Austin has put together a zero waste plan for creating zero waste by 2040. Right now [...]

October 27th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , | Category: compost, recycle | Leave a comment

It ain’t easy being green

I think it is time for me to give a status on how well this going green thing is doing. I am all greened out this week. I have writer’s block and frankly just don’t have the energy to do another radical green change right now. I have talked about a lot [...]

October 16th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: Cleaning, Household Chemicals, Shopping, energy, laundry, paper, recycle | Leave a comment

Too much snail mail!

We bought a shredder so that we could get rid of all of our old papers in the house. If you are like me at all, you have boxes of paper with “important” papers because you don’t want to throw out things with your personal information on it. I would say that [...]

October 2nd, 2009 | Tags: , , , , | Category: paper, recycle | 4 comments

Staying green while traveling

I have been traveling a lot for work lately and it has been hard to stick to my routine. There are so many things that are difficult to do when you are not in the convenience of your own home. Some things I did to reduce waste and stay healthy while traveling:

Bring [...]

September 18th, 2009 | Tags: , , , , , , , | Category: recycle | Leave a comment
 
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