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Make your Own iPod Case
Thursday, 09 February 2012
Make an iPod Case Why make a cover for your iPod, iPhone, or MP3 player? So it looks awesome! And there’s the whole not getting scratched thing. These days, everybody has one of those colored plastic iPhone covers. Why not find your inner creativity, be interesting, and make people think twice about...

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Green Gym
Tuesday, 30 August 2011
Green Gym We hit the gym to do our bodies good, but what about doing good for the environment? With their bright lights, plastic machines, and humming motors, most gyms aren't so ecofriendly. By joining a green gym and evaluating your personal gym habits, you'll feel even better about your workout...

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Sustainable Art
Thursday, 16 June 2011
Sustainable Art I've always been the creative type—the one who stuck her fists and feet in finger paints, licked her coloring book pages, and glued and smeared away the afternoons. As an adult, I still paint simply because I like watching the colors swirl and run. As that curious and messy child, I assumed that art supplies were made of rainbows and fairy dust...

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Make a Picnic
Thursday, 05 May 2011
Make a Picnic To make a picnic is to share good food, good company, and sunshine, all during one beautiful afternoon, or even just an hour! As the days warm, many of us will soon plan our own picnics—big picnics with coworkers, loud picnics with family, and intimate picnics with a special someone. Unfortunately, a picnic can easily turn trashy. When garbage...

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College Activities
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
College Activities The environment isn't doing so well. Society needs to change. You are part of society. You know that you need to be the change. You're also a college student with about a zillion million other commitments. Yeah, sure, you want to be an activist, but where do you even begin? Here are some tips on How to Be a College Activist!

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Tree Identification
Tuesday, 25 January 2011
Tree Identification Ten percent of all trees are threatened with extinction. Learning more about nature will inspire you to protect it. There's a difference between cutting down a tree and cutting down a pin oak tree, whose acorns you and your friends played with last autumn...

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Sun Jars
Thursday, 23 December 2010
Sun Jars Sun jars make fabulous gifts for your loved ones, whether for this holiday season or throughout the year! The sun jar was first designed by Tobias Wong from the United Kingdom and sells for about thirty dollars, but you can make your own sun jar at home for much less depending on what items you have lying around your house! So, what is a sun jar? A sun jar stores...

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Knitting Guide
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
Knitting Guide Knitting — the process of turning Earth into the clothes on our backs—is one of the oldest crafts in the world. For many, it’s a meditation, an act that frees one to measure life in needle clinks rather than minutes. And like all forms of meditations, it brings us closer to ourselves and to the natural world around us. Unfortunately, this...

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Green Halloween
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Green Halloween Halloween is one of the most popular, and at the same time, most wasteful holidays in the world. All the waste generated on this spooktacular day is quite scary for Mother Nature indeed. Looking for a great time while being conscious of our environmental health? Well, read on!...

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Paper Making
Tuesday, 03 August 2010
Paper Making The papermaking industry in the United States has been deemed one of the worst air, land, and water polluters in the country. The process introduces around 212 million tons of hazardous substances into air and water supplies. Well-known dangerous toxins like organochlorines, toluene, methanol, formaldehyde, and hydrochloric acid are among those substances that the...

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Green Investing Guide
Thursday, 03 December 2009
Green Investing Guide You might be doing all the right environmental actions through volunteering, consumer choices, and eco-friendly habits. But what are you doing with all the money you've saved up? A great way to be pro-actively environmentalist with your money is to invest it with green businesses...

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Eco Friendly Marathons
Monday, 15 June 2009
Marathons: Guide to Making Them and Other Races Eco-Friendly! Marathons are one of the most strenuous events known to man, and not just for the runner who must speed—or trudge, depending—through 26 miles on foot, but also for the event staff. Think about what it takes to put on a race: first, tons of volunteers filled with alacrity for handing out water or sports drink constantly; event tents to...

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Camping Make it an Even Greener Experience
Wednesday, 03 June 2009
Camping: Make it an Even Greener Experience! Our parks, forests, beaches, and protected wilderness areas are national treasures for us to enjoy. Henry David Thoreau once said, “In wilderness is the preservation of the world.” Spending time outdoors is a unique way to support and savor our pristine natural areas. However, during camping season, the great outdoors can suffer from a...

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Childrens Eco Birthday Party Guide
Thursday, 21 May 2009
Children’s Birthday Party: Guide to Making it Eco-Friendly! Everyone likes a good party, but everyone likes a party more if its eco-friendly. Unless, of course, you are a child, then you probably just like parties regardless of their carbon footprint. If you have a little one of your own you are entirely aware that parties are a kind of crowning social achievement, so obviously they must be...

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Getting Eco Friendly This Holiday Season
Monday, 01 December 2008
Getting Eco-Friendly This Holiday Season! Every Christmas, we use trees as decoration for only a few weeks out of the year. Two of the most popular options, farmed trees and artificial trees, have some harmful consequences for the environment. However, many eco-friendly alternatives exist, like living Christmas trees, which minimize these effects. Choosing alternatives to farmed...

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Trading Books
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
Trading Books Libraries are great, but sometimes I want to keep a book, or write in it, or find an obscure book my library does not have. Or perhaps you do not live near a big library. Buying new books can be fun, but sometimes you just want to read a book and then read another and another, without amassing a huge collection. Trading books gives you...

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Make Your Own Rugs
Tuesday, 01 July 2008
Make Your Own Rugs Why make rugs when you can buy them? Because it's easy and fun! Making "Rag Rugs" became particularly popular from 1890 to 1910 especially among women in the country or frontier. Instructions are often passed orally through family generations. Rugs are a great decoration that add color to boring rooms, and warm up the floor during cold winter...

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Green Facts

  • States with bottle deposit laws have 35-40% less litter by volume.

  • Shaving 10 miles off of your weekly driving pattern can eliminate about 500 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year.

  • Turning off the tap when brushing your teeth can save as much as 10 gallons a day per person.

  • In California homes, about 10% of energy usage is related to TVs, DVRs, cable and satellite boxes, and DVD players.

  • Recycling 1 million laptop computers can save the amount of energy used by 3,657 homes in the U.S. over the course of a year.

  • Due to tiger poaching, habitat destruction, and other human-tiger conflicts, tigers now number around 3,200—a decrease in population by about 70% from 100 years ago.

  • Glass can be recycled over and over again without ever wearing down.

  • If every U.S. household turned the thermostat down by 10 degrees for seven hours each night during the cold months, and seven hours each weekday, it would prevent nearly gas emissions.

  • Nudge your thermostat up two degrees in the summer and down two degrees in the winter to prevent 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere.

  • Americans throw away more than 120 million cell phones each year, which contribute 60,000 tons of waste to landfills annually.

  • Americans throw away enough aluminum to rebuild our entire commercial fleet of airplanes every 3 months

  • One recycled aluminum can will save enough energy to run a 100-watt bulb for 20 hours, a computer for 3 hours, or a TV for 2 hours.

  • 82 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S. come from burning fossil fuels.

  • A laptop consumes five times less electricity than a desktop computer.

  • It takes 6,000,000 trees to make 1 year's worth of tissues for the world.

  • Rainforests are being cut down at the rate of 100 acres per minute.

  • A steel mill using recycled scrap reduces related water pollution, air pollution, and mining wastes by about 70%.

  • In the United States, automobiles produce over 20 percent of total carbon emissions. Walk or bike and you'll save one pound of carbon for every mile you travel.

  • Recycling 100 million cell phones can save enough energy to power 18,500 homes in the U.S. for a year.

  • Bamboo absorbs 35% more carbon dioxide than equivalent stands of trees.

  • A single quart of motor oil, if disposed of improperly, can contaminate up to 2,000,000 gallons of fresh water.

  • An aluminum can that is thrown away instead of recycled will still be a can 500 years from now!

  • Less than 1% of electricity in the United States is generated from solar power.

  • You’ll save two pounds of carbon for every 20 glass bottles that you recycle.

  • Plastic bags and other plastic garbage thrown into the ocean kill as many as 1,000,000 sea creatures every year.

  • American workers spend an average of 47 hours per year commuting through rush hour traffic. This adds up to 23 billion gallons of gas wasted in traffic each year.

  • Recycling for one year at Stanford University saved the equivalent of 33,913 trees and the need for 636 tons of iron ore, coal, and limestone.

  • Recycling aluminum saves 95% of the energy used to make the material from scratch.

  • Current sea ice levels are at least 47% lower than they were in 1979.

  • You will save 100 pounds of carbon for each incandescent bulb that you replace with a compact fluorescent bulb (CFL), over the life of the bulb.

  • You will save 300 pounds of carbon dioxide for every 10,000 miles you drive if you always keep your car’s tires fully inflated.

  • Every week about 20 species of plants and animals become extinct.

  • Washing your clothes in cold or warm instead of hot water saves 500 pounds of carbon dioxide a year, and drying your clothes on a clothesline six months out of the year would save another 700 pounds.

  • Americans use 100 million tin and steel cans every day.

  • For every 38,000 bills consumers pay online instead of by mail, 5,058 pounds of greenhouse gases are avoided and two tons of trees are preserved.

  • Refrigerators built in 1975 used 4 times more energy than current models.

  • 77% of people who commute to work by car drive alone.

  • The World Health Organization estimates that 2 million people die prematurely worldwide every year due to air pollution.

  • A tree that provides a home with shade from the sun can reduce the energy required to run the air conditioner and save an additional 200 to 2,000 pounds of carbon over its lifetime.