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Xerox Invents Erasable Paper to Reduce Waste!
Find out how Xerox is going green with reusable paper! Let’s face the facts: no matter how much we try to recycle or cut down on our paper use, we consume paper every day. Whether it’s to get the daily memo at work, or to write down our grocery list, we use paper like it’s nobody’s business!
20 Easy Things You Can Do TODAY to Save $$, Reduce Waste and Stop Climate Change
Ok, cancel that expensive, high carbon trip to Copenhagen - you can do a lot to save money, energy, and reverse climate change right from home. In our ongoing effort to bring you positive steps that you can take in your daily life to conserve, eliminate waste or turn it into resources, here are our Top 20 Waste and Money Saving Steps you can take to reverse climate change.
Finding Happiness Within
I was looking at a state-by-state happiness index this morning  The measures they used for happiness included non-mortgage debt to income ratios, unemployment, and foreclosure rates. Seems logical. Using these metrics they concluded that the Dakotas w
Get Schooled in Bottled Water
I spent a little time this AM talking with the staff at the Responsible Purchasing Network (www.responsiblepurchasing.org) which is a project of the Center for a New American Dream working to create markets for green products and practices. They were
Deep Feelings about Bags
My wife took me out to dinner the other night and while we were walking back to the Metro in DC, we decided to do some grocery shopping. And then the panic hit us. We did not have our canvas grocery bags. So what should we do? Should we hop onto the Metro and risk getting back to the market after it closed? Should we just throw caution to the wind and use a couple of store bags? Should we not shop and not have cereal in the morning? In truth, it really did not matter what we decided. The more important fact was that we were thinking about the concequences of our actions. We were co
Are You Brave Enough?
My wife and I woke early this AM, anxious about many, many things from the environment to the economy and back again. But we were also excited about today because October 24th will be a day for folks to demonstrate for a positive new beginning. They will be coming together at more than 5200 events in 181 countries to show their support for the concept of actually doing something about climate change. For some that means supporting the regulation of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, but for others it also means a commitment to change in their personal lives. For this latter group
The Six Month Rule
When I was first starting out in the world I had pretty much nothing. So my father and I engaged in a sort of game. If he had something that I needed that he never used, I would start an argument for why I should have it rather than he. In the short hand of these types of arrangements this became known as the “six month rule.†Share
It Started with a Sheet of Newspaper
It started about 40 years ago I think. I had run out of wrapping paper and was low on money. So I went to the newspaper stack instead and used the comics to cover my present and keep the surprise factor. My family commented and tied this action in with the family legend that I still had the first five dollar bill I ever earned. Over the years I kept doing it and even switched to wrapping gifts with other--less colorful--sections of the newspaper. It became my signature and it really felt good to be saving money and sending a message with every gift I wrapped in this manner. The intere
Follow Nathan: TeeCycle Turns Old Tees Into Hip Donations That Protect Urban Rivers and Trails
Happy Earth Day!
So I am finally getting my co-workers to actually throw their waste paper into my "recycling" bin next to the printer. But I can't drill it into their heads that not printing useless things in the first place is an even bigger step. Let's think of the "3-R's" REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE. I've got them thinking of number 3, but the first, and what I feel is most important is lost on them. I continue to try, and I hope with diligent yelling ;-) I'll be able to convince them to stop and think before they print something off.
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