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When you buy cage-free eggs, are you diverting your money away from polluting factory farms?
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Commented Sep 2, 2011 on Green Your Breakfast: How Do You Like Your Eggs? at The Green Life
Green Your Breakfast: How Do You Like Your Eggs?
Good morning! This week’s tips are about how to make your most important meal of the day more eco-friendly. Tip #2: Think through your eggs. Whether you like ‘em scrambled or sunny side up, your first decision about your eggs should be that they be organic and cage-free. When you buy organic ...
Driving or flying to a hiking trail in a national park is a great way to show support for our national parks.
Commented Jun 17, 2011 on Green Your Father's Day: Take a Hike at The Green Life
Green Your Father's Day: Take a Hike
Father’s Day is this Sunday, so this week's tips are about the greenest ways to thank dads. Tip #1: Go hiking. If you live near your parents, take them for a hike. Trails.com maintains a nationwide trail map, with treks ranging from easy strolls to strenuous excursions. If your dad is like mos...
With water vapor being the worst greenhouse gas, reducing watering will help reduce global climate change.
OK, the effect only lasts for days, not years like CO2.
Commented May 15, 2011 on Green Your Patio: Save Water at The Green Life
Green Your Patio: Save Water
With spring in the air, the outside of your home starts to look more appealing than the couch. With that in mind, this week's tips are about how to stay green when reacquainting with your patio. Tip #4: Don't Waste Water This should be a no-brainer, but it's amazing how much water goes tow...
OK, maybe you will not be one of the more than 15,000 candle fires this year. My LED candles guaranteeing that I will not burn down my house. Who is greener?
Commented Dec 3, 2010 on Green Your Holidays: Candles at The Green Life
Green Your Holidays: Candles
Whether you're celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or all of them, this week's tips will help you lessen your impact while you increase your joy. Tip #3: Don't Get Burned by Petroleum If you're preparing to light a menorah tonight or stocking up on candles for Kwanzaa later this month, l...
How about no holiday at all, no tree, no overeating & drinking, and no consumerism. :-)
I think I will keep my 10 year-old tree.
Here in Wilmette, we have destroyed the swamps, savanna, & most of the creatures that were living here and filled it with trees already.
Commented Dec 3, 2010 on Green Your Holidays: Trees at The Green Life
Green Your Holidays: Trees
Whether you're celebrating Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or all of them, this week's tips will help you lessen your impact while you increase your joy. Tip #2: Decorate a Live, Local Tree Real or fake? If you're wondering which kind of Christmas tree is better, keep in mind that Sierra magazin...
pldrake, no kids? That is the ultimate in greenness!!
Also, try to cut down on pets. "Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man's best friend" http://www.canada.com/life/Polluting+pets+devastating+impact+best+friend/2367119/story.html#ixzz16SAAr0tg says that one large dog has twice the impact as a SUV.
Commented Nov 27, 2010 on Green Your Kids' School: Carpool at The Green Life
Green Your Kids' School: Carpool
Do you see a lot of waste at your child's school? This week's tips are about how to help green your local educational institutions. Tip #3: Bum a Ride Dozens of people in your neighborhood make the same trip each morning and afternoon to get their kids to and from school. If it isn't feasibl...
Shut down the USPS, how much carbon would that save!!!
Commented Nov 13, 2010 on Green Your Junk Mail: Make it Law at The Green Life
Green Your Junk Mail: Make it Law
Junk mail can ruin your day: 5.6 million annual tons of ads choking mailboxes isn't pleasant for mail-getters, and it's even harder on the environment. This week's tips should help you curb the volume of waste piling up in your real-life inbox. Tip #4: Support the Legislation In 2008, 18 state...
Great ideas if you do not heat your food. Both cast iron & clay require more energy to heat them up on the stove or in an oven. Recycled aluminum or better yet reused aluminum seem like better choices to me.
Commented Oct 22, 2010 on Green Your Kitchen: Eco-Friendly Cookware at The Green Life
Green Your Kitchen: Eco-Friendly Cookware
The kitchen is at the heart of many American households. But waste there can be a real problem. This week's tips, then, are about how to green your food-prep space. Tip #3: Know What's in Your Pots and Pans Avoid cookware and small appliances made from polycarbonate plastic, which contains BP...
Sounds like Burton Natarus needs a campaign contribution.
Commented Aug 18, 2010 on Abandoning high-rise plans, Fourth Presbyterian ready to unveil design for a five-story addition to its historic North Michigan Avenue church at Cityscapes
Abandoning high-rise plans, Fourth Presbyterian ready to unveil design for a five-story addition to its historic North Michigan Avenue church
After two aldermen rejected its controversial plans for a lucrative high-rise behind its Michigan Avenue sanctuary, one of the city’s most affluent Protestant congregations on Tuesday will unveil a design for a dramatically scaled-down addition. Fourth Presbyterian Church, which has occupied i...
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