Green is the New Black. Mainstream and high profile designers alike are using eco-friendly materials in their clothing lines. When shopping, check the labels for ingredients like organic cotton and even bamboo, or look for organic collections from some of these well-known brands.
Archive for March, 2009
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged bamboo, eco-friendly clothing, organic cotton on March 22, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged tree free home on March 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Tree-Free Home: As much as possible, create a tree-free home: replace paper napkins with cloth napkins replace paper towels with a special set of cloth towels/napkins – store the used ones in a small container in your kitchen and just wash and reuse purchase bleach-free, toilet paper that is made from the highest post-consumer waste content [...]
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged calculate CO2 on March 20, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Calculate your CO2. Use safeclimate.net/calculator/ to determine how much your travel by car or plane fouls up the environment by spewing CO2 into the atmosphere.
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged baking, ceramic pans, cooking on March 19, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Save Energy While Cooking Energy experts suggest you cut energy use up to 2/3 by simply covering pots as they’re heating. If you’re baking or roasting something for less than a half hour, try a toaster oven. They often use 1/3 to 1/2 the power needed for a conventional oven. Use a pressure cooker and [...]
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged car pool on March 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Car pool – saves both greens. the world and the money.
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged lunchboxes on March 17, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Green Lunchboxes Some of us are so focused on the challenge of what to put in our kids’ lunchboxes that we don’t consider the lunchbox itself. But a 2006 report found disturbing amounts of lead in vinyl lunchboxes. The highest lead levels were found in the lining of the lunchboxes–yes, that would be the area [...]
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged conserve wter on March 16, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Conserve Water While waiting for tap water to get hot, catch it in a jug or bucket to use for watering plants.
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged email, green business on March 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Green Business Tip Encourage communications by email, and read email messages onscreen to determine whether it’s necessary to print them. If it’s not, don’t!
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged leaky faucets, save water on March 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Leaky Faucets Don’t be a drip! Did you know U.S. office workers use enough water every day to fill 17,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools? Unfortunately, much of this water comes from leaky faucets. A leaky faucet that fills a coffee cup in ten minutes will waste an estimated 3,000 gallons of water a year. These little leaks not [...]
Green Tip of the Day
Posted in Green Tip of the Day, tagged cooking green, slow cooker, solar cooker, toaster oven on March 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Cooking Cook with a slow cooker or a toaster oven (or even a solar oven!) to reduce electrical use from kitchen appliances. For a meal that requires one hour to cook in an electric oven, and which uses 2.7 pounds of C02, a crockpot uses 0.9 pounds of C02 for seven hours, a toaster oven [...]
