Now that Summer is here finding ways to stay cool is on everyone’s mind. It’s important to keep cool but at what cost to our wallets and to our environment? Running the air conditioning can use a lot of electricity...
Earth Day is an annual holiday founded by peace activist John McConnell, who also designed the Earth Day Flag. It started as a grassroots effort to inform people to support environmental concerns and create a movement. Now there are millions...
Below are things to know when preparing your things for recycling. Your local recycler will thank you. checking to see what is able to be collected at curbside in your area; for most areas that means plastic items with Plastic...
Last year I received a white trumpet flower plant from a friend and I liked it right from the beginning. I mean you have large white blooms and nice foliage. It is what my little flower garden needed: some green...
Blackle.com is a website created by Heap Media and it looks like Google and is powered by the Google Custom Search, but it has one large difference. Blackle.com (clever name) has a black background instead of the white background of...
Recently I've needed to look into the possible replacement of one of my smoke alarms and of a fire extinguisher. I quickly found very helpful information on the proper disposal of both of these. I'm sharing what I found below....
Like most people I've used plastic straws my entire life. However, plastic straws are made from polypropylene, which is #5 among the Plastic Identification Codes. This isn't good because most recycling centers will not take them. Which means after you...
I recently had a Lean Cuisine (the first in awhile) and after enjoying the four cheese cannelloni I had a question. I know that I can recycle the cardboard box the meal came in, but what about the meal tray...
This past weekend I saw something a little peculiar on the outskirts of Louisville, Kentucky. It was a purple 3-sided box up in a tree next to a road. I just had to investigate. I had my camera with me...
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