Some tips and suggestions for going green and doing your part to save the environment. With Earth Hour fresh in our minds, let us try to do something eco-friendly every day. With home recycling, always try to reuse or ‘re-purpose’ before recycling (see Recycling vs. Reusing). When it comes to water, this precious commodity can […]
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Environmental Tips – How to Go Green (Video)
South African professor slams climate change as ‘world’s biggest distraction’
Climate change is probably the world’s biggest distraction and not its biggest and most immediate challenge, which belongs to clean water, says Professor Grant Cawthorn. Cawthorn, Wits University’s School of Geosciences Platinum Industry Igneous Petrology professor, contends that the lack of fresh water will have a much greater global impact than a “one or two […]
Bringing Back The Past To Save The Future
In the past, there was no such thing as disposable plastic grocery bags… single-use utensils… or 24/7 fast food joints. Our instant gratification-based society has quickly filled our planet with trash and pollution that is going to be very difficult to clean up, never mind even live with while we try to do so. As […]
Greener Spaces: Your Home Office
Most of us have some type of home office space. You may run a business from your home or have a job that allows you to telecommute. Or you may have an office-like space where you keep bill-paying supplies, incoming mail, papers, scissors, etc. But no matter what kind of office you have, you can […]
11 Uses For Cardboard Toilet Paper Tubes
While some people may already be buying the new “tubeless” toilet paper, most of us continue to buy the kind with the cardboard tubes in the middle. (And really, that tubeless kind called Scotts Naturals is only 40% recycled paper, so please don’t buy it. Buy 100% recycled content toilet paper instead.) But at the […]

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