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SunChips Stacks First Compostable Bags on Canadian Shelves
For the launch of its fully-compostable snack bag, Frito Lay Canada is working with local composting programs to ensure that new SunChips bags are handled properly when disposed.
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[Source: Resource Efficiency | GreenBiz.com - Posted by FreeAutoBlogger]
Google Maps adds bicycle information
Beginning today, Google has begun providing bicycle directions for its Google Maps service with directions for cyclists in 150 cities in the United States. Google already incorporates public-transit and walking directions in addition to automobile driving directions, and the bicycling community has been calling for Google to add bike routes for some time.
Sustainable Gift Tags – Santa Go’s Green
To keep up with the rest of the world, Santa is going green this year with plantable gift tags. Found at stores like Uncommon Goods , Target and Botonical PaperWorks these plantable gift tags/biodegradable gift cards can be taken off of packages everywhere and put directly into the soil, where they will dutifully grow into trees all over the world.
Conserve Water and Money by Making A Rain Barrel
Building a rain barrel is a way you can conserve water and save money. It is estimated that over the summer months homeowners use about 40% of their water for landscaping and plants.
You’ll save money on your water bill and see the difference in your plants almost immediately. Building a rain barrel catches water runoff from your roof that would normally flow to the ground, it also helps the environment by reducing runoff waste water.
What’s Under Your Kitchen Sink?
I shudder when I think about the poison that used to sit under my kitchen sink within easy, crawlable, reach of my kids. Paint thinners, caustic soda, bleach and half empty containers of God knew what! Where did all those weird bottles of purple liquid come from and what do they do???
If there was just one area by which a green household could or should be judged it would be by the products in that kitchen cabinet!
Is Mankind Causing Global Warming?
Whether you believe global warming is caused by a natural cycle of the earth’s movement on its axis or is caused by man’s polluting ways the ‘answer’ remains the same if both sides of the arguement agree that there is a tiny chance that they are wrong and the other side just might be right.
The same answer to to opposing arguements? How can that work?
Easy Ways To Live A Greener Lifestyle
I feel that for many the thought of ‘going green’ can seem like a massive commitment of time and personal energy, and maybe it is. But only if we’re talking about total 100% commitment to a greener lifestyle from the get go.
It makes far more sense to add to the ecologically friendly things you and your family do one step at a time – before you know it you’re well on your way to being green.
Carbon Footprint? Hey! Bigfoot!
Are you aware of the effect your life has on the planet? Most of us aren’t of course. While we do our best at recycling and all that eco-friendly stuff actually checking out what our ‘footprint’ is can be an eye opener.
Once you know the impact you, and your lifestyle, are having on the environment the less easy it becomes to find excuses to not give something back.
What If Oil Did Not Exist?
Do you remember that episode of TV’s Dallas. The one where the script writers decided that the only way to get out of the hole they’d dug for themselves, plot-wise, was for Pam to wake up, see her ‘murdered’ husband Bobby taking a shower and to realise it had all been a dream!
All the murders, treachery, double crossing and affairs – all a dream. Imagine if they’d gone a stage farther and decided that, in fact, there was no such thing as OIL either!
