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Welcome to Container City - How Shipping Containers Are Recycled into Green Dwellings

Posted 7 weeks 3 days ago by Xin Lu

Personal Finance, Frugal Living, Lifestyle, Green Living, Real Estate and Housing

At any port you can probably see hundreds to thousands of empty shipping containers just sitting around waiting to be loaded. In recent times these containers have not only transported goods across oceans but have also been transformed into energy efficient dwellings with some great design and ingenuity.

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Wal-Mart Celebrates Its Own Green Efforts with Free Reusable Shopping Bags

Posted 12 weeks 5 hours ago by Linsey Knerl

Freebies, Green Living, Consumer Affairs

Wal-Mart gets its fair share of negative press. However, a recent article in the new National Geographic’s Green Guide magazine really had me thinking about some of the ways Wal-Mart has led the way with environmentally-friendly initiatives. Regardless of how you feel about Wal-Mart’s status as a commercial superpower, you really have to take a look. (And while you’re at it, snag a free shopping bag!)

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Five Ways to Squeeze Savings from Your Workplace

Posted 18 weeks 4 days ago by Xin Lu

Personal Finance, Frugal Living, Career and Income, General Tips, Lifestyle, Food and Drink

If you are a cube dweller like me you may be familiar with the usual benefits of a salary and paid days off, but there are many other ways you can benefit from your workplace. I am not talking about stealing pens or embezzling large sums of money. Read on for some of the practical and legal means I think you can use your work to squeeze just a little bit of extra savings for yourself.

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New Ideas for the Chopstick

Posted 24 weeks 1 day ago by Linsey Knerl

Frugal Living, Green Living, Food and Drink, Art and Leisure

In China alone, an estimated 45 billion pairs of disposable chopsticks are used and thrown away every year. This equals the wood from 25 million fully grown trees every year! If you’re not sure you’re going to use that chopstick again, give it a wash, and put it to use with these handy tips!

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Urban Composting - It CAN be done!

Posted 37 weeks 6 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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Keep These Things in Your Car; Save Money

Posted 1 year ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Food and Drink

As I fall deeper and deeper into veggie-eating, plastic-eschewing hippiedom, I thought I'd share some of my ideas for reducing, reusing, or recycling. There's nothing here you haven't heard before, but that doesn't mean it isn't valuable information!

Here are things that I've started keeping in my car to keep me from overspending or wasting.

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