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An Idea: Do You See the Light Bulb Over Your Head?

September 1, 2018 Comments Off on An Idea: Do You See the Light Bulb Over Your Head?

Did you stock up on those old light bulbs and are still using them?  Think about this: Replacing a single (yes, one) light bulb with fluorescent, which lasts almost 10 times longer, can save ¼ ton of coal, not to mention all the sulfur dioxide, other pollutants, and acid rain that coal would have caused the Earth and us to have breathing and other health problems.

[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]

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Contact Lens Pollution

August 25, 2018 Comments Off on Contact Lens Pollution

A new study shows 14 billion contact lenses flushed down the toilet each year. Since they don’t break down, this is adding to the already-major plastic pollution in oceans and waterways. There isn’t any eco-friendly way to dispose of them yet, but they’re better off in the landfill. Trash them, don’t flush them.

[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]

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Every Sheet Counts

August 11, 2018 Comments Off on Every Sheet Counts

Can recycling that sheet of paper matter?  The U.S. produced about 20,700,000 tons of paper last year, which took (depending on size) 55 – 110 million trees to produce. But we recycled only about 53% (11,000,000 tons).  Every recycled sheet counts.

[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]

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Every Sheet Counts

August 11, 2018 Comments Off on Every Sheet Counts

Can recycling that sheet of paper matter?  The U.S. produced about 20,700,000 tons of paper last year, which took (depending on size) 55 – 110 million trees to produce. But we recycled only about 53% (11,000,000 tons).  Every recycled sheet counts.

[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]

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Are You Label-Literate?

August 4, 2018 Comments Off on Are You Label-Literate?

Know your “green” language on packaging.  “Natural” really means nothing.  “Made with organic ingredients”means that 70% of the ingredients are organic, and with “Organic,”95% are. Only “100% organic” means what it says.

[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]

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Laundry and Unhealthy Families

July 21, 2018 Comments Off on Laundry and Unhealthy Families

Love your babies? The keep them away from fabric softener.

 

Note VOCs are Volatile Organic Compounds. They pollute our indoor air and cause health problems.

(This Sensible Saturday hint thanks to Tina Silva Blease.)

 

 

[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]

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Say NO! to Mosquitoes

July 14, 2018 Comments Off on Say NO! to Mosquitoes

Deter mosquitoes: Coat your skin with essential oils of lavender, catnip, neem oil or neem seed oil, essence of black pepper oil (30 drops of any combination into 30 ml unscented moisturizer or organic soy oil—it keeps.)  You can also eat lots of garlic, but you won’t smell as nice.

[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]

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Cleaning Pools, Spas, and Ponds

June 30, 2018 Comments Off on Cleaning Pools, Spas, and Ponds

Where to drain your swimming pool, spa, or pond for cleaning or repairs?  Not in the creek behind your house or into the street gutter, where it flows into the bay (both are illegal, harmful to the water supply, cause bank erosion). You can run it down the drain, to go through the sewage treatment process, but that wastes it.  OR, instead, let the chlorine evaporate, then use the water to deep soak your lawns and plants.

[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]

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For the “I Don’t Wanna Garden” Person

June 2, 2018 Comments Off on For the “I Don’t Wanna Garden” Person

Want a garden but don’t have space? Or have space but don’t know how to garden? Consider sharing a garden.  Go to www.sharedearth.com to learn how

[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]

 

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Too Many Eggs and Bunnies

March 31, 2018 Comments Off on Too Many Eggs and Bunnies

Have left-over Easter baskets, grass, or plastic (ug!) eggs?  Here’s a solution: stash them away for next year. That cute bunny suit that won’t fit Junior next year? Donate it now before it’s ruined.  Candy nobody will eat?  Compost it.

[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, download a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and download to your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]

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