The Story of Stuff

As our family grows, we seem to accumulate a lot more stuff. Things that sit in cupboards, never to be used by anyone or decorations that add up. We buy items on a whim or on sale. If it is something made cheaply, it breaks easily and then we just have to purchase another . . . → Read More: The Story of Stuff

Reduce our Use of Disposable Plastics.

Can we avoid using disposable plastics? Yes they are recyclable but…
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Drinking bottle water

Do you drink bottle water?  You might just want to rethink that after you watch this video, the story of stuff and bottled water.

Eating Meat Harms the Planet

According to the United Nations, Raising animals for food is “one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global.”  If anyone wants to save the planet, all they have to do is stop eating meat.

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Soap - How it affects the Environment

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Guide to LED Christmas Lights

Do your holiday lights make your neighbourhood’s power station resort to auxiliary nuclear power? Choosing light-emitting diode technology—LED lights— that use as much as 95 percent less electricity than their inefficient predecessors and last up to 10 times longer is the best answer to making your festivities truly bright.

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Car Pooling

Driving to work has a lot of benefits. Sure, some will begrudge their trek due to the congestion and distance. However, driving to work can be a great opportunity for listening to an audio book, looking the local scenery, and helping the environment.

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Emprire State Building Going Green to Cut CO2 emissions

The Empire State Building, the symbol of New York’s pre-eminence that held the title of the world’s tallest skyscraper for 41 years, is seeking to pierce through the pall of economic gloom that has descended on Manhattan by turning itself green.

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Easy Things You Can Do To Help Stop Global Warming

You may not realize it, but there are many easy things you can do to help stop global warming. In recent years, it has been discovered that temperatures have risen approximately 1F higher than the average. Over the next decade, we could see temperature increases up to 6 degrees higher. Small increases in the Earth’s temperature could result in a drastic change in the climate. This has the potential to impact the sea level in the oceans of the world, changes in the productivity of crops, changes in the air that we depend on, and the water we drink may also experience a change. In addition to this, our overall health and the standard economy will be drastically affected. This is why it is essential to know and understand that there are easy things you can do to help stop global warming.

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Al Gore for Going Green

There is no denying that there is Global Warming.  The winters might be colder but there is so much evidence that the planet is suffering.  We have to do something now, not next year but now.  Here is some evidence of global warming from

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