Category: Holidays & Special Events
Garbage For Christmas? Nonsense. Try Eco-Gifts instead.
Do gifts feel more like evil magic tricks? You open one big box only to find 6 smaller ones, each covered in plastic, draped in tissue paper, and then held in place with a bomb-proof coating that even a jack hammer can’t release. All for a pair of earrings. And let’s not forget the wrapping [...]
Green the Holidays with Green Gifting Tips
Winter Holidays are often riddled with indulgence, over spending, and high eco impact celebrations. High impact gifts and their packaging make the holidays less eco friendly than they can be. A few simple tips can help you have a greener, cheaper, and more eco friendly holiday. Green living really is this easy! It’s hard to [...]
Smart Charger for your iPhone and Blackberry
A few days ago we reported on the issue of standby power – that our homes and workplaces are populated with electronics that often consume energy even when they’ve been turned off. Nationally, such secretive parasites add 5-10% to our total electrical consumption. At the global level, one of the biggest culprits are cell phone [...]
The Green Lighting Revolution Continues
Share Thomas Edison’s invention of the incandescent light bulb was a civilization changing moment. However, unlike the airplane or automobile, the technology of the incandescent bulb has evolved relatively little in a hundred years. As far as the old bulb has taken us, it is not the portrait of efficiency. While we call them light [...]
How to Have a Green Valentine’s Day
Valentine’s Day is sneaking up and will hit us next weekend. Are you ready? It is easy to show you care and be green at the same time. Here are some ideas: Chocolate: It is not Valentine’s Day for many without this treat. Most big-chain supermarkets now offer organic chocolate. Fair-trade chocolate is also offered [...]
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