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Bottled Water Causes Blindness in Puppies!

June 28, 2010

Oh. My. Tappening has got to be the best flipping anti-bottled water campaign ever created. Tappening was covered at the New York Times last year but I just learned about them today at elephant. Tappening targets bottled water companies with a simple tactic – they lie about them. One of their posters claims “Bottled Water: [...]

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Important Green Book: Bottled & Sold

June 17, 2010

Bottled and Sold: The Story Behind Our Obsession with Bottled Water was released in April, but being me, I’m just now hearing about it. Good golly. IF I only had the time to read all the books I wanted to read. Basically this book looks like everything I’ve known for a long time – there’s [...]

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20 DIY Eco-Friendly Summer Toys

June 6, 2010

You don’t have to spend a lot of green on cool eco-friendly summer toys. You, along with your kids can make a whole slew of eco-friendly toys all on your own, with low-cost eco-friendly or recycled materials. Following are 20 eco-fun, summer toy projects. Really neat rock dominoes (shown above) – one of those I [...]

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Time to stop buying bottled water!

May 18, 2010

Last year or so I saw a study that looked at how many people buy bottled water for drinking at home, and what it costs them. The results were insane. There are folks paying up to $8 per gallon for water! Are you guilty of spending far too much on bottle water? If you’re only [...]

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Last year I spent hundreds on bottled water!

May 7, 2010

Ok, maybe I didn’t spend hundreds on bottled water. However, my taxes (of which I had plenty) did help pay for bottled water even though technically I didn’t drink ONE sip of bottled water in 2009. Or the year before that come to think. You are in the same boat as me. Even if you [...]

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The Earth Day Groceries Project

April 15, 2010

Sorry that I’ve been MIA. I have only a one word excuse – TAXES. Technically that would be DARN TAXES. I’ve been seriously considering moving out of the country. But, I digress. In other April news, Earth Day is coming up fast but there’s still time to jump on board with one awesome Earth Day [...]

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Sixteen ways to reuse egg cartons

January 10, 2010

The most ambitious step when it comes to egg packaging is to skip it altogether. However unless you have your own chickens and can thus ‘grow’ organic eggs or have an excellent farmer’s market that sells bulk eggs (which you can place in a basket to purchase) you will have to deal with packaging. That [...]