Saturday, December 29, 2012

Here's a great tip from Southern California Edison for your major appliances. 
I've been practicing this tip for years and I tell you what, it actually has lengthened the life of our appliances as they don't have the stress of the being over-worked during peak hours and during the heat of the day.

So you have money saving all over the place! 
 
Here's an easy New Year's resolution: Use clothes washers and dryers during off-peak hours (before noon or after 6pm) to help you reduce energy usage in your home.

Sunday, December 2, 2012

12 Ways to Recyle Used Coffee Grinds

I love this! Another tip on how to recycle coffee grinds and bring life to your plants and furniture and other surprises that coffee grinds can do....including a masque for your face. Get out!!!!

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/community-news/recycle-used-coffee-grounds-55010401#comments

12 Ways to Recycle Used Coffee Grounds

Composting is the most basic, but far from the only way to use old coffee grounds. How about an exfoliating skin mask, or a closet deodorizer?

By TDG Community


COMMUNITY NEWS
Did you know that the average American consumes about 3 cups of coffee a day? That’s a lot of used coffee grounds going into the trash.
There are actually many ways you can recycle and reuse your old coffee grounds to help preserve the environment and maintain your health.
I’ve researched many sources to find the best ways to reuse old coffee grounds.
You’d be surprised at just how many different methods have worked for people:
  1. Touch up furniture and other wood scratches with grounds and a Q-tip
  2. Sprinkle around areas where pesky insects, slugs and snails dwell to drive them away
  3. Mix with soil as a natural fertilizer for plants
  4. Dye clothing or paper
  5. Rub into your dog as an organic flea dip
  6. Fill old nylons and hang in your closet or fridge to repel odors
  7. Use to fill old pin cushions
  8. Scrub away grease and grime from pots and pans
  9. Throw on ashes before cleaning out the fireplace to reduce dust from spreading
  10. Feed to worms to help with your garden
  11. Rub on your hands to eliminate odors
  12. Mix 1/4-cup grounds with one egg white and massage onto face like a mud pack
If you’re not an avid coffee drinker but you live near a coffee shop or cafĂ©, you can always ask them for the old grounds. Places like Starbucks actually give bags of used grounds away to people who use them for their home and gardens.
Recycling is just one way that we can help maintain the natural beauty of our environment, so next time you drink a cup of coffee save those coffee grounds for future use!
- Trish Smith
Copywriter, Green Student U
, a blog-style site that introduces today's students to a wide variety of global environmental issues by recognizing college campus green initiatives and personal success stories, as well as how the world is being shaped by environmental reform.

Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/community-news/recycle-used-coffee-grounds-55010401#ixzz2DvrLkqUM

Sunday, April 29, 2012

Discard your medications but don't pollute the environment

How do you get rid of your medications and OTC (over the counter) medicines that you no longer use?

So many of us may have seen our parents from years ago, flushing them down the toilet or pouring the liquid contents down the drain...even wrapping them up in a plastic bag and throwing them in the trash can, but that is very harmful to our water supply and our land and so much more.

Imagine billions of people doing the same.

What about the fish in the ocean?

They are eating everything that's in it, including your heart medication or your high blood pressure medicine.

If we are what we eat, as the old saying goes, then both they and we are getting a portion of unwanted drugs into their system.

We can do our part by not making the ocean, lakes, rivers, seas anymore contaminated than they already are, as well as our land where we grow fruits and vegetables.

Don't take for granted that the Sanitation Companies are going to go through your trash and sort it out or don't think that it's "not a big deal", cause it really is.

Check out this website that helps us properly dispose of unused drugs....
Then JUST DO IT!!!

http://www.smarxtdisposal.net/


SMARXT DISPOSAL TM public awareness campaign is a unique public-private partnership between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the American Pharmacists Association, and the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America.

Friday, February 17, 2012

O.B.

This site has great facts on how we can continue to do our part.
(Albeit from a company who sells tampons, no less.)
Good 'ol Johnson&Johnson.
Yay! For them doing their part!!!

But hey, I hadn't really thought about it up until I read this.

Check it out!
Just click on the link and follow the arrows!

http://www.obtampons.ca/environment

I'm very impressed with these energy saving and conservation tips.
Plus that there is that much less trash in the landfills and the "Garbage Island" located in the North Pacific, which is the size of Texas.
Check out this lovely, mass vortex.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7rNYzSH-BA