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Get a free digital magazine subscription from The Read Green Initiative

Get a free digital magazine subscription from The Read Green Initiative

photo credit: inoc Wow – it’s environmentally friendly, and it’s free!  Treat yourself to a one year digital magazine subscription from The Read Green Initiative. All you need to do is pick your magazine and enter your e-mail address. Then, sign up for an account with Zinio, which provides sales and distribution of digital content.  When I signed up for my Zinio account, all I had to do was provide an e-mail address and create a password (no physical address or credit card information was required). Being a personal finance geek, I picked Kiplinger’s for my free magazine, but...

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Get 350 pounds of carbon offset in your name

If you’re a blogger, offset some of your carbon footprint by visiting Brighter Planet’s 350 blogger challenge and putting a badge on your site.  Even though their initial goal of 350 bloggers has been met, they will still make contributions for new additions. It took them a little over 24 hours to verify this site and send me my credit.  If you’ve got the time and the inclination, won’t you consider doing the same?

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Recycle your old technotrash

I feel pretty guilty about throwing things away.  We’ve been trying to get rid of the things that we don’t need anymore, and the next thing on the list is VCR tapes and coasters (CD/DVD discs that did not burn correctly). Even though it costs money, Green Disk seems like a good option for us. Here is a list of some of the things that they will take for recycling (from their website): All forms of electronic media and their cases: diskettes, zip disks, CDs, CD-Rs, CD-RWs, DVDs et al, video tape (i.e. VHS), audio tape, game cartridges, DAT,...

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Need to recycle those packing peanuts?

We were cleaning out the basement this weekend, and had a lot of packing peanuts that we wanted to get rid of.  Throwing these out makes me feel guilty, as I know they take a long time to decompose in a landfill. A quick google search helped us come up with a solution, and I just wanted to share the link.  The Plastic Loose Fill Council has over 1500 collection sites in the US – you just need to fill out an online form to find the collection site nearest to you.  Hope this helps someone out!

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Get a free tote from Earthbound Farm Organic

I recycle our plastic grocery bags from large shopping trips, but have been trying to get in the habit of taking my own totes to the store when I know I won’t be picking up a lot.  I have a small assortment of bags that were given to me as gifts, and I’ve been considering getting some more. If  you’re interested in getting a free tote to get you started on your independence from plastic bags, you can take a short conservation quiz at Earthbound Farm Organic.  I’ll be getting one myself to add to my collection!

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The Story of Stuff

The Story of Stuff

photo credit: Manuel.A.69 A friend of mine sent me a link to a site with a 20-minute video called “The Story of Stuff” with Annie Leonard. It took me over 3 months to follow the link an get around to watching it, being that if I don’t do something right away, it takes me awhile to get to it. I’d highly recommend watching it, and sending it along to others (who hopefully get around to things before I do!). Here is a short excerpt from the website regarding what “The Story of Stuff” is about: “From its extraction through...

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