There are many ways to make your garbage just a little bit more environmentally friendly. You know about recycling and how important it is. But even when you do that, you’re still left with trash bag after trash bag full of garbage.

When it comes to garbage, seek out packaging that can be recycled. Containers and tubs that cookies, butters, cakes, and dips come in can all be used for other purposes. If an item comes with styrofoam, it can easily be used to repackage or store other breakable items. If you are really creative, you may just be able to turn your trash into new, creative decorations. In addition, carrying your own reusable shopping bags is an easy way to cut back on the trash.

Despite your efforts, it is important to remember that certain items are just bound to hit the trash. Reduce the impact of your trash

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Green Business Blog Carnival #13

by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg September 3, 2010

Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step right up… it’s Carnival time! Welcome to the greatest show in the green business blogosphere… the Green Business Blog Carnival!
Hopefully, you made the trip to Green Building Elements last week for edition #12 of the Carnival (and, of course, you still can)… and now’s the time to mark [...]

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Help For The Homeless – Delivered By Bike?

by Rory Woods September 2, 2010

This group of friends does exactly that. They gather every Sunday to assemble sack lunches and distribute them to people in need via bike.

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Denver Man Invents World’s First Solar-Powered Light Bulb

by Calfinder September 1, 2010

What do ski risers, ceiling bike storage, goggle fans and solar-powered light bulbs have in common? Stephen Katsaros. He’s an entrepreneur and inventor from Denver, Colorado with a knack for getting things done, as evidenced by the quick conception in January (and birth in July) of the Nokero Solar Light Bulb, with which Katsaros plans [...]

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Book Review: Hunting: In Search of the Wild Life, Edited by Nathan Kowalsky

by Justin Van Kleeck September 1, 2010

Author’s Note: A free review copy of this book was provided to me by the publisher, Wiley-Blackwell.
Wiley-Blackwell’s series of philosophy books for general readers, Philosophy for Everyone, aims to serve general, non-expert readers without actually treating them as “dummies” or creating watered-down, one-size-fits-all philosophy. The risk such an endeavor always faces is to end up [...]

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Geothermal: Getting Energy from the Earth

by Earth Policy Institute August 31, 2010

By Lester R. Brown
The heat in the upper six miles of the earth’s crust contains 50,000 times as much energy as found in all the world’s oil and gas reserves combined. Despite this abundance, only 10,700 megawatts of geothermal electricity generating capacity have been harnessed worldwide.
Partly because of the dominance of the oil, gas, and [...]

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Green Business Blog Carnival #12 at Green Building Elements

by Jeff McIntire-Strasburg August 30, 2010

Another week, another Green Business Blog Carnival. Our friends at Green Building Elements did a very nice job of wrapping up the news you can use from the green business blogosphere…
Quite a variety of stories this week…

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