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Take Some Time to Cancel Your Catalogs Today with Catalog Choice

I don’t know how many times I’ve mentioned Catalog Choice on this blog, but they are worth mentioning yet again. Last year, I spent quite a bit of time calling catalog companies to cancel over 40 catalogs. Shortly after I did that, Catalog Choice popped up and it would have made my job so much [ READ MORE ]

Go Paperless Where You Can and Save Money

Green Saves Green  Day 13 For many of us, one of our first steps in being green was recycling paper. It may not have even been a conscious green step. Our communities started a curbside recycling program and we participated.  Paper comes from trees and our world needs trees to provide oxygen, clean the air, provide shade, keep [ READ MORE ]

10 Easy Ways to Be More Sustainable with Books

I am a bibliophile. Always have been. I love reading, but I also love books in and of themselves. They are a beautiful thing. I really can’t see myself reading digital books. You can’t curl up with a Kindle. You can’t write its margins or risk dropping it in the bathtub on one of the [ READ MORE ]

Remember – Paper Has Two Sides, Use Them Both

A week and a half of school has gone by and already the paper is piling up. My kids are coming home with all sorts of papers that are used on only one side (and both kids came home with a thick student handbook. Isn’t there some way, in a school of about 350 kids, [ READ MORE ]

Swaptree.com

I often get press releases e-mailed to me from marketing companies asking me to mention their website/product/announcement on this blog. Up until now I’ve just kind of glossed over them, but I’ve decided to read them carefully and begin passing along the ones I think fit in well with what we’re trying to do here. I [ READ MORE ]

If Only I Had Known about This Eco-Friendly Site

So I write this column, “Green Like Me”, for Primal Parenting, and in the Spring issue my column will be about catalog waste. I won’t let you know what I say in the column. You can go to their website and subscribe if you really want to know. But, I will say this. If I had [ READ MORE ]

When it’s Okay to Use Paper Products

We had a neighborhood Christmas cocktail party over the weekend. If you look our my back door right now the piles of beer and wine bottles along with the boxes they came in are enormous. They all must wait until Thursday for the recycling to be picked up. We had so many people at the party, [ READ MORE ]

Another Socially Conscious Christmas Idea

I just discovered another Christmas gift idea that can give back. Plow and Hearth has pewter Plant-a-Tree ornaments. For each ornmanet sold, the Canadian company that makes the ornament will plant a tree at a site around the world that needs reforestation. There are 11 different ornments to choose from and they only cost $9.95 [ READ MORE ]

Reuse THEN recycle

I go through a ton of printer paper. As a writer, I need to proofread everything I write, and for me that means printng out a hard copy. Some writers can proof from the computer screen. I don’t feel comfortable doing that. Sometimes I need to print an article out two or three times as [ READ MORE ]

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