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Clearly opting out of the phonebook doesn’t work

Last week, as precipitation of one form or another was pummeling the East Coast, Yellow Book deliverers were busy placing unwanted phone books on the doorsteps of unsuspecting recipients. Those books sat there, soaking up water through the plastic bag that did nothing to protect them from the elements, until people like me opened their [ READ MORE ]

Time to start thinking about the holidays

There’s no denying it. The holidays are upon us. Thanksgiving is next week. I’ll be doing some posts on the holidays in the upcoming weeks. I thought I’d do a roundup of my posts from the past two years that had ideas and information about making the holidays and all that go along with them [ READ MORE ]

10 easy ways to be more sustainable with your movie habit

Do you love watching movies? We’re big movie watchers in our house. We don’t have cable so when we do gather around the TV to watch something, more often or not, it’s a DVD. Out of curiosity, what’s your favorite movie? Mine is When Harry Met Sally, followed closely by Mr. Blanding’s Builds His Dream House. On [ READ MORE ]

Curbside recycling confusion

If my town’s green team members are confused about what is and isn’t allowed in our curbside co-mingle recycling, it stands to reason that my town’s residents are going to be confused, too. At our meeting last night, we were working on coming up with items to put on two boards – one with items [ READ MORE ]

Opt out of receiving the phone book

Yesterday, I told you about Catalog Choice, an online service that easily lets you cancel catalogs. There’s another online service that lets you opt out of receiving the phone book that automatically comes to your house every year. It’s called Yellow Pages Goes Green. Every year I get a phone book. I put it in the [ READ MORE ]

Earth Day is on April 22 but why wait till then

Recycle Bank and Burts Bees sent me a list of 10 Earth Day tips to use on this site. They’re great tips, but as I was reading them over I realized (even before I got to their ending comment) – these are all things you can do any day, not just on Earth Day.  As Earth [ READ MORE ]

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