Posted May 6, 2009 - 20:34 by Nora Dunn
Green Living
We have so much STUFF. Cell phones that don’t work any more. Batteries that won’t charge any more. Shoes that have holes in them. The list goes on. We don’t want to throw this old stuff away; some of it might even still be good – just not to us. Other items are too harmful to the environment to chuck in the waste bin. We would like to reuse some of it, but cannot figure out how it can reasonably be used (I mean, truly – what do you do with an old smelly running shoe). The solution? Find other people who can use what you don’t need any more. By giving it away, you can breathe new life into your old stuff.
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Posted April 23, 2009 - 16:11 by Torley Wong
Shopping
This is a lovely guide to getting the most out of your consumer purchases on the Internet.
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Posted January 12, 2009 - 13:29 by Paul Michael
Life Hacks, Green Living
This little fact was big news to me. I was casually flicking through a magazine at work when something caught my eye; it was buried in the bottom corner of one page and stated that you can use old calendars in the years to come. And this year, there are a bunch of great old dates to choose from.
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Posted May 14, 2008 - 22:54 by Xin Lu
Personal Finance, Frugal Living, Green Living, Lifestyle, 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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Posted April 12, 2008 - 18:09 by Linsey Knerl
Green Living, Consumer Affairs, Freebies
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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Posted February 26, 2008 - 23:27 by Xin Lu
Personal Finance, Frugal Living, Career and Income, Food and Drink, Lifestyle, General Tips
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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Posted January 18, 2008 - 22:34 by Linsey Knerl
Frugal Living, Food and Drink, Art and Leisure, Green Living
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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Posted October 14, 2007 - 14:05 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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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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