In our June newsletter we included some “green” tips on ways to improve your gas mileage and in this day and age with the price of gas rising daily, it seemed appropriate. Our tips are simple and cost next to nothing and if done on a regular basis can save us $.94 per gallon. Seems [...]
Category Archives: GREEN Tips
Green & Growing
June 17, 2008 – 2:49 am
I was at an Eco show this last weekend and met another small green business, Victory Electronics – electronics recyclers, just one more example of small green businesses popping up everywhere. It’s refreshing to see more and more businesses opening up in response to the increasing awareness of our current environmental situation. In addition there [...]
Electronic Recycling
May 29, 2008 – 1:47 pm
Here’s a Jeopardy question for you… What weighs 200 million tons? The answer: the amount of electronic waste that goes into our landfills every year. Computers, monitors, cell phones, DVD players, copy machines, TV sets… you get the picture. Most, if not all of this electronic waste, contains hazardous chemicals like mercury, lead and chromium [...]
Go Green this spring
April 18, 2008 – 7:54 pm
Spring has sprung in most areas of the country and the ritual of “Spring Cleaning” has begun. Planting flowers, planting plants and prepping our lawns for summer, airing out our houses from the winter, cleaning windows, replacing winter window covers with summer screens are all a part of the spring preparation process. Depending on where [...]
Give the gift of clean air
April 8, 2008 – 12:18 pm
I was at the Arizona Diamondbacks 2008 home opener last night and they scored 9 runs and beat the Dodgers 9-3. Probably doesn’t mean much to most of you but what is significant is that it means that 90 trees will be planted as part of a program this year between the Diamondbacks and The Salt [...]
Earth Hour everyday!
March 12, 2008 – 5:09 pm
Have you heard about Earth Hour 2008? It started in Sydney, Austrailia in 2007 and has spread worldwide this year. To participate all you have to do is turn off your lights for 1 hour at 8pm on March 29th. Simple! Please join in this effort and get as many family members and friends to [...]
Paper or Plastic? Neither, finally!
February 15, 2008 – 1:44 pm
We made our first trip to the grocery store this week using our reusable shopping bags! It was actually kind of cool to use the bags instead of plastic. It was easier than I thought it would be and we got everything into 6 bags versus our normal 12 – 15 plastic bags. It made [...]
It’s Easy Being Green
November 25, 2007 – 11:17 pm
Can you make a difference? Yes! We can all make a difference and it doesn’t cost anything except our time and effort. There are simple things we can all do to help conserve energy and to preserve our environment.
Listed below are 10 simple things we can all incorporate into our daily lives that save energy, [...]
