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by Renee Barnes

 Reduce-Reuse-Recycle to Stretch Your Grocery Dollar

3 Meals Now & 2 Put Up For Later...From A $3.00 Flat Of Chicken Thighs

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My husband does most of our grocery shopping. We don't own a car so it's very lucky that our son works with him and is a close neighbor. It works well for our son as well, since we contribute to gas and car maintenance. As you may read between the lines, ours is a very close family.


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by LiteGreen

5 Ways To Reduce Your Environmental Impact This Summer

Don’t give up on your green goals just because it’s hot and you might be traveling. Summer is a great time to recommit to a healthier, planet-conscience lifestyle.


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by Jeanne Blaisdell

School’s Out! Summer Tips to Keep Practicing the 3 R’s

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by Joe Laur

A Better “Story of Stuff”

Annie Leonard took the system to task for our consumption addiction in her powerful video "The Story of Stuff," and rightfully so in many ways. Most of us use far more “stuff” than we need.



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Why Americans Started to Produce So Much Waste

Americans are producing more and more waste as the years go on. According to the book Living Green: The Missing Manual - In 1905 the average person in New York City produced 92 pounds of trash per year. By 2005 that number increased to 1,242 pounds.


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by LiteGreen

Bet You Didn’t Know You Could Reuse These Household Items

16 everyday ways to reduce, reuse and recycle!

If you’re a frugal person, like me, then you’re probably always looking for new ways to reuse all those household items that stack up after primary use. Reusing items you have on hand not only saves money, but it also reduces environmental waste.

So come on all you die-hard-frugalers, won’t-spend-stingys, and totally-committed-environment-comes-first-deep-greens of the world, unite! It’s time to reduce, reuse, recycle and upcycle to your heart’s content. Do good and feel good about it with these 16 tips!


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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!


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by Joe Laur

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.


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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


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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


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