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The Coffee Cup Revolution: Let's Take a Stand!

Posted 16 weeks 23 hours ago by Nora Dunn

Let's start an easy revolution. One in which you, me, and everybody else who frequents coffee shops can eliminate 23lbs of waste per year and save 18% of what goes into landfills. That adds up.

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New Ideas for the Chopstick

Posted 17 weeks 48 min 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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Baby Carrots - The Frugal Idea That Isn't

Posted 1 year 3 days ago by Andrea Dickson

Frugal Living, Food and Drink

Think baby carrots are a convenient, cheap snack food? Well, you're right. But there's something a bit deceptive about baby carrots - for one, they're not babies. For another, they don't taste like carrots.

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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.

Pack a lunch that packs a punch

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When Good Food Goes Bad Part VI: Apples

Posted 1 year ago by Andrea Dickson

Filed Under: Food and Drink

I hail from The Apple Capital of the World, so I know a thing or two about apples. For instance, eating three apples a day helps you lose weight.

That is, if you can manage to eat three apples a day. As somone who really loves apples, I can attest that apple fatigue is REALLY easy to come by.

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a 3-course meal...from garbage.

Posted 1 year ago by Paul Michael

Filed Under: Food and Drink

Dumpster

Why buy groceries, when you can get your weekly shop for free? Many people do it, but there is a catch. Instead of going in to your supermarket through the front door, you have to go to a different department. The dumpster.

It's estimated that the US alone throws away roughly $100 billion in food every year. And most of it is perfectly edible. It's a crying shame, and it's the reason Freeganism is becoming more and more popular in the US and western Europe.

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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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