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There are Cheaper Ways to Return to a Greener Earth

Posted 8 weeks 6 hours ago by Linsey Knerl

Personal Finance, Frugal Living, Green Living, Consumer Affairs

The web is full of ways to live green, but have you ever thought about being Earth-friendly in your death? While it’s not always pleasant to think about, maybe we should. If you want to be sure that you have a full and ecologically responsible life, maybe “greener” burial products are for you.

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Our Obsession to Clean is Making Us Trashy

Posted 26 weeks 4 hours ago by Linsey Knerl

Frugal Living, Green Living, Consumer Affairs

I hate to clean just as much as the next person, so many of the new products on the market can be helpful to my daily routine. Others, however, are just wasteful. How has our shift to being more eco-conscious allowed for an acceptance of disposable cleaning fads?

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Super-Cheap Building Supplies and a Way to Help Your Community!

Posted 35 weeks 6 days ago by Linsey Knerl

Green Living, DIY

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I’ll admit that my family is the “cobbling” kind of people. Our depression-era farm house was slapped together in a sturdy, but irregular fashion. So when it comes time to replace windows, doors, or other basic components, we try to do it as cheaply as possible. Last week I discovered ReStore (a project of Habitat for Humanity), and I will never shop for home improvements supplies the same way again!

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Urban Composting - It CAN be done!

Posted 38 weeks 2 days ago by Andrea Dickson

Green Living

Think that living in an urban center means that you can't recycle your food scraps, paper towels, and pizza boxes? Think again. There are so many ways to compost these days, that there's almost no excuse not to do it. In fact, urban composting can even be kind of fun.

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2 Free Tickets to DiCaprio's New Eco-documentary: The 11th Hour

Posted 46 weeks 6 days ago by Will Chen

Green Living

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The 11th Hour is a documentary that unflinchingly examines our devastating impact on the ecosystem. Narrated and produced by Leonardo DiCaprio, the film features commentary from experts such as Stephen Hawking, Mikhail Gorbachev, Wangari Maathai, Ray Anderson, Betsy Taylor, Thom Harmann, and Bill McKibben. I haven't seen the movie yet, but I do know that Sigur Ros and planet earth make an awesome combo.

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The end of the Energizer bunny: SIX products that don't need batteries.

Posted 50 weeks ago by Paul Michael

Filed Under: Shopping, Lifestyle, Consumer Affairs

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Since I became a father, my household's battery consumption has quadrupled. It seems like we're always running out of batteries, or batteries go "missing" from my tools, flashlights and other household items to make their way inside one of a dozen Fisher Price toys. I swear, Duracell and Energizer have some kind of secret deal going with the big toy companies.

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The Cost of Meat—The Environment Argument

Posted 1 year 7 weeks ago by Lynn Truong

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This continues from "The Cost of Meat—Too High To Pay." The Environment Argument addresses the toll intensive factory farming has on our environment. This topic will include water usage, waste contamination, and rainforest destruction.

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Bottled Water, Bottled Hype Part 1

Posted 1 year 11 weeks ago by Andrea Dickson

Green Living, Food and Drink

When we buy bottled water, especially bottled water from overseas (like Fiji), we're deciding against using that we have immediate access to, something that pours freely into our sinks at the twist of a handle. Instead, many of us prefer to purchase water. Water, ubiquitous water, now arrives in plastic bottles, bottles that are polluting to create and polluting to get rid of.

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Life Without Toiletpaper - Bum Deal?

Posted 1 year ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Lifestyle

How far would you go to save the world?

Upon reading the New York Times article about the Beaven-Conlin household in Manhattan, I started to get a little queasy. The article delves a bit into the lives of a couple and their young daughter, yuppies who live affluent lives in New York City. They've taken the idea behind The Compact, and then taken it a LOT farther. They are trying to live for one year with absolute minimal impact on the environment.

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