Author: Jen Biederman
Website: http://www.renewablechoice.com/Blog-07-20-09-Ideal-Bite-Tip-…

House Swapping - Green Living Tip Brought to you by Ideal Bite

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Author: GoGreenItemsGirl
Website: http://gogreenitemsgirl.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/hot-green-p…

Do you turn your sink faucet on and wait for hot water. This great green product offers you a solution so you do not have to do that any longer.

Eco Friendly Hot Water Heater

Have you ever heard of this great green product. The Chilipepper hot water pump. The Chilipepper it is a small micro-processor pump that is very powerful. It mounts under your sink.With a touch of a button the hot water is being pumped to your sink or shower. This is all done by not running a single drop of water down the drain. When you turn the faucet on to your sink or shower you will have instant hot water. The Chilipepper hot water pump can supply hot water to several sinks and multiple fixtures. Yon can do this be using just one Chilipepper hot water Pump. Who doesn’t want to save water, energy and money.
 
Who benefits from this product. For example a typical family of 4 can save up to 15,000 gallons per year. The Chilipepper uses less than $2.00 per year in electricity to operate. The hot water pump…

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Author: Lisa Frack
Website: http://www.enviroblog.org/2009/07/at-what-price-tuna.html

By Olga Naidenko, EWG Senior Scientist

How much does a can of tuna cost to an average shopper in a U.S. supermarket? Something like 33 cents a can, if you look hard enough and search for a good sale. Not a bad deal - if you only count the sticker price.

Now let’s think a little bigger.
Take, say, the U.S. as a country. What would the cost for that same tuna can be on a national level? It turns out that the numbers there are far from economical. Most tuna in the U.S. comes from the still plentiful, yet rapidly depleting tuna fisheries in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean.

Pacific fishing areas are used by fishing fleets from many countries: Japan, China, Taiwan, Koran, Phillipines, Spain, and, of course, the United States. To have a right to fish in these regions, distant fishing fleets and their governments pay access fees to the island nations in whose territorial waters tuna stocks are moving.

We (you) pay $18M annually to put fishing boats on the water
Every year…

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Author: Jean-Paul
Website: http://www.thechicecologist.com/2009/07/prix-pictet-sustaina…

Sustainability and Photography- one of the most powerful mediums of change is the photograph. Images have the power to enrage, to calm, to motivate and educate. Prix Pictet brings together some of the most influential images by photographers immersed in a changing world to promote sustainability. This year’s theme is Earth.
I love it when I [...]

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Author: easy eco blog
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Cleaning showerhead holes is a pain.  No need to use harsh poisonous chemicals. An easy way to do it is by unplug the shower head and soak in a mix of equal parts of white vinegar and warm water for about 2 hours. Rinse it off.
A mix of 2 tablespoons of white vinegar with 1 [...]

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Author: Elaine Shannon
Website: http://www.enviroblog.org/2009/07/will-watching-evians-rolle…

By Elaine Shannon

In our case, just the opposite: watching those chubby-cheeked acrobats fires our curiosity. How do they do that?

Okay, we know it’s just digital-age magic, but it’s still fun.

The video must have the same effect on other people, judging by the millions of views on You Tube.

In fact, the spot seems to be doing exactly what ads are supposed to do - getting people interested in a brand.

Only problem is, when we search Evian.com, we find out a lot less about the actual water in the Evian bottle than we used to, pre-roller-babies. According to Youtube, the making-of video about the roller babies video has attracted an audience of millions. What if Evian paid as much attention to explaining the making of the bottled water?

As recently as last month, Environmental Working Group’s research staff, which was rating bottled waters for adequate disclosure, found Evian, whose parent company is Coca-Cola, to be considerably more informative than many of its…

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