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Environmental Issues Know No Boundaries

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Our society is divided on numerous different levels, segregated and put into order, we know where something stops and starts and this is often how we define ourselves. The primary kids stay on the green climbers and the intermediates the purple, one cab company has to stay within the city limits and another outside. When [...]

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Environmental Concerns That Never Seem To Steal The Show

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It’s interesting how some environmental concerns of the world always seem to be center stage and others never even get an honorable mention unless a point is made to feature them. Topics such as climate change, global warming, greenhouse gases and fossil fuels seem to be a few of the first things that come to [...]

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We Are Handcuffed When it Comes To Batteries and Our Environment

Most things in life that are detrimental to the environment can be bypassed. You don’t have to buy an artificial Christmas tree, a real one is more environmentally friendly. It wouldn’t be the end of the world if you stopped buying aerosols, like hairspray and air fresheners. These products become one with our atmosphere and [...]

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Composting Isn’t As Easy As It Sounds

Composting definitely gets a gold star with regards to the environment. That said, it can be a little tricky and many are often left wondering what gets the green light in terms of composting! Don’t feel bad cause I’m one of them! Essentially anything that was once living will compost, meaning don’t try anything that [...]

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Countdown to Christmas—Remember to Recycle

Christmas is just nine days away, which means it’s almost time to open gifts and settle into a comfortable egg-nog and turkey coma. While many people claim to abstain from material goods, there are always a few gifts waiting under that Christmas tree waiting to be opened. It’s not only important to put thought into [...]

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Are You Teaching Your Kids To Care About Their Environment?

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This is a serious question that I think you need to stop and ask yourself. If you have children, are you teaching them, through leading by example, how to care for the environment? Do they understand how important it is to take responsibility for their part in helping with the global environmental issues we face [...]

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2012 Voyage Set to Study Tsunami Debris and Pacific Garbage Patch

In an effort to better understand plastic and its interaction with ocean environments, Pangaea Explorations, along with the 5 Gyres Institute, Algalita Marine Research Foundation and the University of Hawaii, will be undertaking a voyage with 13 passengers (including four professional crewmembers) in 2012. The scientific expedition will be following the trail of debris left [...]

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Christmas is Coming—Christmas Tree Debate Alive and Well

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Christmas is coming the goose is getting fat…please put the penny in the old mans hat…lalalala…I’m sure you’ve heard the song. Christmas is alive and strong right now and so is the debate about Christmas trees. Artificial or real? Which one will you choose? So which one really is your most environmentally friendly choice? Well [...]

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Make Green Your Color of the Season!

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Yes, festivity is in the air, sugarplums may be dancing through your head and people seem to be prancing around happily with an added bounce in their step. I agree it’s so easy to lose focus on what’s important this time of year and I’m not referring to ‘the thought’ or ‘love’ or even ‘good [...]

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Small + Changes = Positive Global Impact

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Fact: Placing your pop tin in the proper recycling bin or putting your food scraps into your green compost bin really does make a difference! If everyone believed that their daily environmental actions really didn’t mean squat in the big picture, then we would never get anywhere in our quest of making our world a [...]

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Starbucks – Uses Popularity For Environmental Good!

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There’s no doubt about it, status effects impact, especially when you are trying to get an environmental message across to the world! If Joe Smith down the street started recycling, it wouldn’t make the front page of the news but if Madonna started publicizing her green bin efforts, half the world would follow! Are you [...]

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Man’s Hands Poison The Environment

Toxic waste is poisonous byproducts resulting from farming, industries, septics, automobiles, hospitals and various other means. This toxic waste could be a solid, liquid, gas, radiation or other toxins. Including hazardous waste from our homes, like batteries, paints, pesticides, cleaners and old electronic equipment. This dangerous waste hurts, people, plants, animals and the environment. If [...]

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Do You Even Give a Crap?

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It’s so easy just to look the other way isn’t it? To not bother sorting out every piece of freaking garbage or not put your dinner waste into the special green bin. It really is a pain in the butt keeping these containers clean and in a convenient place in your house so that your [...]

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Get Started in a Recycling Program

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If you always wanted to do your part in saving the Earth and didn’t know where to start, recycling is one of our most pressing environmental issues. Waste is one our biggest environmental concerns, and is responsible for producing most damage being done. Initiating a recycling program and reducing your carbon footprint at home or [...]

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A Double Win With The Environment!

If I told you that you could improve your health and help protect the environment would you do it? I’d [...]

A Guide to Creating an Eco-Friendly Life (Part 2)

Why Should You Green Your Home? Why exactly should you have an eco-friendly home?  What can we possibly stand to [...]

A Guide to Creating an Eco-Friendly Life (Part 1)

There is no doubt that going green and adapting to a new way of eco-friendly living is taking the world [...]

Take Simple Steps Toward a Tree-Free Household

Many people recycle paper products and call it a day. But the truth is that it would be far more [...]

Composting Isn’t As Easy As It Sounds

Composting definitely gets a gold star with regards to the environment. That said, it can be a little tricky and [...]

Are You Teaching Your Kids To Care About Their Environment?

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This is a serious question that I think you need to stop and ask yourself. If you have children, are [...]