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Going Green and Painting the Town Red: a Guest Post

Posted on September 30, 2010 | Leave a comment

Some Thoughts on Going Green by Greentea Design

Eco-Friendly Japanese Design

Eco-Friendly Japanese Design

During Wednesdays, the mall in my country does not use plastic bags when packing its groceries for its loyal customers. Instead, buyers have the option of choosing between placing their goods in a box or buying eco-friendly reusable bags. Opting for the latter certainly opened my eyes to the term “Going Green.”

In an age where plastics abound in casings, gadgets, and even in furnitures, enlightened consumers still clamor for old-school, sensible, and reliant media such as paper, glass and wood.

Of these three, wood is certainly the most versatile. It can be painted on, cut and fashioned into different delightful items. Equally important is the fact that it is dependable and tenacious. Case in point, homes using wood survive catastrophes and are easily repaired for their yearly maintenance. Continue reading →

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Green Articles Around the Web

Posted on July 13, 2010 | Leave a comment

Portland Tree Canopy

Portland Tree Canopy (detail)

Here are some of the more interesting headlines from around the web, related to wellness, recycling, sustainability and the environment. Click through each to read more.

From the NY Times Green Blog: The seven-member commission assembled by President Obama to investigate the BP spill has hired a longtime Royal Dutch Shell scientist, engineer and offshore drilling expert, to be its chief technical adviser. By John M. Broder

From London and the NY Times: Residents of a pioneering low-carbon housing development in a south London suburb, use one-fourth as much energy for heat and hot water as households in neighboring communities do. By Beth Gardiner
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5 More Ways to Go Green in the Yard

Posted on September 28, 2009 | 2 Comments

Get Your Garden and Yard Even More Green

We’ve already figured out you probably have a yard, and we’ve already discussed 5 practical tips to helping homeowners make their gardening efforts a little bit more green. If you’re not quite satisfied, or coming back for even more ideas about making the backyard more sustainable and eco-friendly, then read on below for some more valuable information.

Use Weed Alternatives

Instead of chemicals, try applying yet another fantastic byproduct of corn. Maybe the Native Americans were really on to something with their self-sustaining ways? Yeah, there’s no maybe about it. In this case, organic corn gluten will do wonders to help prevent weeds, especially when you couple your effort with keeping your grass at a 3-4 inch length.
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5 Ways to Go Green in the Garden or Yard

Posted on September 25, 2009 | 1 Comment

How to Go Green in an Already Green Yard

Do you have a yard? That’s nice. I certainly wish I did. If you’re a homeowner, and unless you live in a true desert climate, chances are you have a little something “green” in your yard already. However, if you’re interested in “going green” WITH your yard, consider a few of the following tips to help out the environment while improving the aesthetics of your landscaping.

Add a Little More Green to “Go Green”

Cultivating, growing and utilizing plants and trees that are native to your home region are fantastic ways to help absorb the waste that we human beings are quickly releasing into the atmosphere. Not only will trees and plants help your green efforts, but they will also bump your property value and overall yard and/or landscaping aesthetics. Double bonus for anyone interested in building some equity and value into their home. Continue reading →

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Top 7 Eco-Friendly Things You Can Do: Going Green in the Workplace

Posted on May 26, 2009 | Leave a comment

Going Green in the Workplace
Green Office Building
Why 7? Because that’s about as perfect as perfect gets, right? Actually, let’s consider 7 to be a starting point — a jumping off point — to lead to some simplicity that will make a big difference in “Greening” your workplace. Straight talk says that “seven” will offer change without freaking out your colleagues and superiors.

Or if you own the business yourself, it will create an environment for environmental change without offering your employees much “Boss has gone crazy” dialogue. Here you go: 7 great tips to go green in the workplace. Continue reading →

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Easy Ways to Go Green Privacy Policy

Posted on April 15, 2008 | Comments Off

Easy Ways to Go Green respects your privacy. All information collected at this website will be kept strictly confidential and will not be sold, reused, rented, loaned, or otherwise disclosed. Any information you give to Easy Ways to Go Green will be held with the uttermost care, and will not be used in ways that you have not consented to.

1. Resale or Disclosure of Your Private Information to Third Parties:

Easy Ways to Go Green does not sell, rent, trade, loan, or lease any personal information collected at our site, including membership forms or email lists.

2. Browser Information Collected on This Website:

Easy Ways to Go Green analyzes the website logs to improve the value of the materials available within the website. Our website logs are not personally identifiable, and we make no attempt to link them with the individuals that actually browse the site.

3. Advertisements:

We currently have the following forms of advertisements on this website: Text Link Ads, Affiliate Program advertisements and privately brokered, third party advertisements served by a variety of platforms, which follow those privacy guidelines. Further, be advised that any and all advertisements on this site have been hand-selected and subject to rigorous examination before they are included in the site. We make every attempt to only select the most relevant of advertisers in every case.

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Easy Ways to Go Green does use cookies on its website, mostly in order to track traffic coming from other websites and leaving to other websites. With the cookies, we make no attempt to link them with the individuals to make any information personally identifiable.

5. Mailing List:

Easy Ways to Go Green will never, without your express permission, re-sell or otherwise offer your personal information to any outside third party when you subscribe to our Official Newsletter. The email and other information that you enter, through the Feedburner Newsletter / RSS Feed service, will only ever be used to send you officially sanctioned Newsletter updates about this site, in addition to the regular updates to content, including recent blog postings (often daily), normally offered through Feedburner.

6. Updates and Changes:

Easy Ways to Go Green reserves the right to replace this Privacy Policy at any time. We suggest that you regularly check this page to view our most recently updated privacy policy.

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