Author: easy eco blog
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GAP Stores has a recycle your denim and receive a 30% off coupon event, March 5 through March 14, 2010. They will recycle the denim and turn it into the eco friendly housing insulation.

Related posts:

1. Recycled Denim Insulation
2. Get Paid to Recycle – Recycle Bank
3. Trade-In and Recycle Used Electronics

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Author: Rachel
Website: http://www.thechicecologist.com/2010/03/eco-development-and-…

I’ve noticed an interesting trend lately. The renovation of old buildings. Gorgeous old buildings gutted and rebuilt from the inside-out, as green and sustainable new structures.
An exciting (and well-publicized) example of this is the Sanctuary development on Capital Hill in Seattle.
The original church was built in the early 1900s and has been a distinctive landmark [...]

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1. Green Renovation to Global Institute of Sustainability Building on ASU Campus – Structure Recycling
2. Amenity Home – Modern Chic Organic Cotton Linen and Sustainable Hemp Bedding
3. Plyboo Bamboo Plywood and Durapalm Palm Tree Sustainable Flooring

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Author: Dean
Website: http://www.thechicecologist.com/2010/03/biosolids-and-compos…

Last week, the Organic Consumers Association took a stand outside the mayor’s office in San Francisco to protest the city’s recent free composting program. (Read the article from their site here). It might sound like an odd thing to protest, especially with all the amazing benefits of composting. The national group chose San Francisco to [...]

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1. Sun Chips Compostable Bag
2. Eco Baby Care – Earth Baby Compostable Diaper Service
3. How Long Does it Take to Biodegrade?

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Author: easy eco blog
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The city of San Francisco recently started GreenFinanceSF, a financing program that helps to pay for water savings, energy efficiency, and renewable energy projects that you might not have been able to afford.  The repayment obligation is attached to the property, rather than the individual, and is paid back through property taxes over the life of the financing.

Eligible projects include energy audits, upgrading heating systems, upgrading water heaters, installing solar hot water, installing solar electric panels, and conserving hot water. The program has an online application and application processing fee of $300.

Related posts:

1. Mortgage Incentives for Energy Efficiency
2. Free PGE Energy Efficiency Classes
3. PGE Energy Partners Program – Free Products

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Author: Green Talk
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The other night the phone rang at 3 am in the morning! It scared the H out of me. As I rolled over to pick up the phone, I noticed it was my fax line that was ringing.  Who in the heck was faxing me in the middle of the night?

Readers, has this happened to you?

The next day I checked the National  Do not Call service to see if I entered my fax number as a “do not call” for marketers.  Well, there was the number plain as day in their registry.  I figured this fax was a fluke and in the event I received another one, I would file a complaint.

Well, this Sunday I received another one.  As I stared at the fax, I noticed the following sentence on the bottom:

“To Unsubscribe Please Register Your Fax Number at www.NationalDoNotFaxList.org.“

Hmm.   Was this a hoax?  Gingerly and being skeptical, I entered the url name into my search engine. (By the way the web address above is re-directed to  www.stopjunkfax.org.) With a gulp, I entered my fax line. Hopefully this…

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Author: Green Talk
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The other day, I received my second unwanted fax from a broadcast advertiser.  In my post, “How to Stop Unwanted Faxes,” I gave you the keys on how to stop these faxes from showing up in your fax tray.  But as I thought about it more and more, was faxing just plain bad for the environment?

This thought about fax’s environmental impact did not just come out of the blue.  (Although many of my thoughts do.)  The unwanted fax had a unsubscribe address, National Do Not Fax. (Also know as “Stop Junk Faxes.”)

When I went to the site, the organization promoted e-faxing in the name of the environment.  Of course, it was linked to an e-fax website, MyFax, with starting costs at $10 a month/$110 per year for 100 sending faxes and 200 receiving faxes.  (Prices varied based upon the amount of faxes sent and received. )

But I was intrigued with their green argument of why you should use an e-fax site from  both a financial and environmental standpoint. They argued…

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Author: easy eco blog
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Costco now sells Nature’s Choice 100% Recycled Premium Bath Tissue.  No need to make a special trip to Whole Paycheck aka Whole Foods to get recycled products.  Price is as low as you would expect from Costco and performance of the product is fairly good too.

The NRDC states: If every household in the United States replaced just one roll of virgin fiber toilet paper (500 sheets) with 100% recycled ones, we could save 423,900 trees.

Related posts:

1. Eco Friendly Toliet Paper
2. Recycle Paper into Toilet Paper
3. Green Paper or Greening the Paper Industry

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Author: Jean-Paul
Website: http://www.thechicecologist.com/2010/03/eco-labels-and-logos…

Eco Labeling can be confusing, and with so many different green logos out there, who do you trust? Luckily, many of the statements, such as Organic and Fair Trade, are regulated to some degree, so you can feel safe knowing that it isn’t ambiguous. With all that greenwashing out there, others can be a bit [...]

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1. Valentines Day Organic Equal Exchange Coffee and Chocolate Love Pairing
2. Fair Trade Sustainable Sporting Goods
3. A Green Valentines Day – Celebrate Your Love with the Environment Too!

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Author: Green Talk
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Photo by permission of Ben Donley

One of my most popular post is “Recycle your Blue Jeans.”  I guess I have a lot of jean wearing, need to get rid of old jeans readers.  Well, for a limited time, Gap is taking back old jeans as part of the CottontoBluetoGreen.org campaign. The time period is short:  March 5-March 14, 2010.    See here for a store near you.

In fact, when you give Gap your jeans, you can get 30% off a new pair of jeans.

Old Blue Jeans are used to create UltraTouch cotton insulation. (I have this insulation.  Love it.)  See the video here about how your ratty jeans become insulation.

To date, the Campaign has collected enough jean to make  185,000 square feet of  insulation. It takes 500 jeans to make insulation for an average house.  180 Habitat for Humanity have houses have used this insulation.  So, get a jump on spring cleaning, and head over to the Gap to give those jeans a second life.  If you miss the deadline, check out my post…

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Author: Green Talk
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Photo by Phillip Stewart

Did you ever wonder if what we bring into our homes could be increasing our risk of cancer, developmental issues in our children, or  asthma?  How could a lovely PVC shower curtain or new stain resistant couch cause any problems? Or perhaps that new shade of yellow paint that smelled for a couple of days after you painted the wall?

Unfortunately, I had to learn the hard way,  through my children.  When you have children that have learning disabilities, ADD, asthma, eczema, and JV Diabetes, you start to examine your own life and ask what have you done wrong.  I started to question as they grew older, if any of the products that I used in our home caused any of their problems?

Over  a decade ago, I started digging into this chemical nightmare.  According to the Center for Health, Justice, and the Environment (CHJE),

“Increasingly, children are being found to be hyperactive, slow to learn, and disruptive in school. The number of…

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