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Freshen Up Your Fridge With This Natural Scent

Mike — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 22:58:14 +0000

Instead of buying a box of baking soda to stick in the fridge (which some scientists have argued doesn’t even work that well), just toss your citrus peels in there instead. The peels absorb strong odors while releasing some natural fragrances.

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Raise a Green Dog!: Make your own dog holiday stocking!!!

Mike — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 04:21:20 +0000

With six dogs in our family now, along with the two cats, piggy, and lots of ducks and chickens, it may be time for us to start making our own Christmas stockings. Thankfully Johann at Raise a Green Dog! shared some ideas with us:

Raise a Green Dog!: Make your own dog holiday stocking!!!

Just watching those stockings getting hung on our fireplace gets me all excited with anticipation of digging into my stocking on Christmas morn’. Mum always has some homemade yummy’s in there!

It’s much more fun to make your own, and personalize your dog’s stocking, so here are some great ideas from our ‘make your own’ series:’ Make a cool doggie holiday stocking from reused items, holiday decorations, clothing and more, you’ve got around the house!

Make sure you share you check out Raise a Green Dog! to get some ideas for making your holiday stockings.

Reposted from The Gang.

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Plastic Bag… Bag

Mike — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 00:44:38 +0000

If you haven’t picked up one, or a few reusable shopping bags yet, that probably means you’ve got a large collection of plastic bags piling up waiting to be reused to pick up pet waste, or for some other task. Well, I found this great way to reuse your plastic bags over at Go Green.

If you know how to crochet, or would be interested in learning, plasticbagbag.com has instructions and patterns for making unique reusable items out of plastic grocery bags.

I don’t know if I’d personably be skilled enough to even try a project like this, but if I ever stumbled across a large collection of plastic bags that needed saving from a landfill, it may be worth the time to try and learn. In the meantime I strongly encourage everyone to pick a few reusable bags from the EasyGreensy Store, and start cutting down on all those wasted bags.

If you do decide to try making one of these bags please share your results with us below. If you’d like to share photos of your finished project with other readers, please feel free to contact me via the contact page.

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Win a Free Ceiling Fan – Ends 10/31/08

Mike — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 15:15:52 +0000

Even though winter is just getting start here in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s never too early to start planning for next summer.

One Project Closer in conjunction with The Home Depot is currently holding a contest to win a ceiling fan (or two) in the form of a $175 gift card. Now that’s a great deal! If you’d like to enter, just head on over to the contest page. Hurry though, there are only a few days left to get in!

Ceiling Fans are great way to get the air in your home moving, and they help reduce your air conditioning costs.

So what are you waiting for? Did you enter yet?

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Students and Young Adults Voting for Clean Energy

Mike — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 00:26:46 +0000

The We Campaign and PowerVote.org are at it again with a new pledge. This one for students and young adults, encouraging our political leaders to consider the environment when creating new policies.

Let’s tell our leaders to make solving the climate crisis a priority and move quickly to enact policies that will Repower America. With so much at stake every voice, and vote counts.

Add your voice to the Power Vote Pledge:

“We are young Americans demanding real solutions to global warming by voting to create a clean energy economy, green jobs for all, and to secure our climate. Join us.

I pledge to make clean, just energy a top priority in my vote this election.”

Pledges like this are our chance to show the leaders of our country that we are serious about climate change, and that were they stand will make a difference in the elections. Please head over to the Power Vote Pledge at WeCanSolveit.org or PowerVote.org to make sure your voice is heard!

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Break the Bottled Water Habit, Win a Prize and Cut Your Carbon

Mike — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:38:10 +0000

Pledge and win prizes!

I’ve made my pledge, have you? You can save money, and protect the environment today by learning why bottled water is bad for the environment, and joining thousands of others who have pledged to stop buying tap water and wasting oil by switching to a reusable bottle. Did I also mention that by taking the pledge and getting others involved, you can potentially win one of several great prizes?

Check it out below:

Break the Bottled Water Habit, Win a Prize and Cut Your Carbon

When you want pure, healthy drinking water, you should reach for bottled water, right? Surprisingly, on neither a personal nor a global level are you making a healthy choice.

For each gallon of water bottled, two gallons are wasted; producing the plastic wastes the energy equivalent of a quarter-bottle’s worth of oil. And what’s in the bottle could just be tap water.

New American Dream and Corporate Accountability International is asking you to think about where the water in that bottle came from, where the plastic is going, and take the Break the Bottled Water Habit pledge(water.newdream.org) and drink to a healthy ecosystem.

During October, make a conscious choice to slake your thirst without drying up our planet’s resources. In addition to benefiting the environment, participants will have a chance to win a free condo for a week at a ski resort in Idaho. Visit the website (water.newdream.org) now to get started.

Please share this article via your favorite social network to support EasyGreensy and the cause!

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Offsets Issued

Mike — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:41:01 +0000

A few weeks ago I mentioned Brighter Planet’s 350 Challenge and the offsets they were offering to bloggers who shared the program by including a badge on their sites. Today EasyGreensy and one of my personal blogs received their certificates.

The original plan was to end the promotion after they reached 350 participants, but they are now keeping it open so bloggers can continue to join. If you haven’t done so yet click over to http://350.brighterplanet.com/ and get your badge.Similar Posts:

Free Carbon Offsets For Your Website

Mike — Thu, 29 May 2008 01:32:22 +0000

If you keep any kind of website or blog, here is a simple way you can help by offsetting your carbon footprint.

CO2Stats monitors the usage of your web site’s server and based on its location, and the locations of your visitors they estimate the carbon footprint and then purchase Renewable Energy Certificates equal to the amount your site uses. The certificates help fund solar and wind electrical generation.

Setting this up on your site is very simple. Just visit CO2Stats, copy a very short script, and include it on your site. That’s all there is to it. You can opt to use a paid version also which will provide some detailed stats, but the free option is great start.

You can see how much EasyGreensy has offset since I included the script here just the other day on the lower left sidebar.Similar Posts:

Support Green Programs

Mike — Fri, 23 May 2008 15:32:53 +0000

When most people hear things like “support us” our first thought is, “Great, another way to spend money I don’t have”. No matter how strong your feelings toward an effort, sometimes there just isn’t enough money to support it.

Well, sometimes you don’t need to spend any money to make a difference. Brighter Planet’s 350 Challenge http://350.brighterplanet.com/ is one of those ways. If you keep a blog you can participate too. All they ask is that you add their badge to your blog, and in exchange they will offset 350 pounds of carbon in your name. If you don’t keep a blog, don’t despair, why not ask your favorite bloggers to take part in your name?

Keep you eyes open for programs like this. Not only are you offsetting your footprint, you are helping to spread the word about being green.

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