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Bruce Springsteen Parking Lot 4 A Greener Apple NYC October 21st, 2009

Bruce Springsteen Concert-goers/Tailgaters (parking lot 16) on how to make New York A Greener Apple. ...more

How to Recycle Those Old VHS Tapes April 9th, 2009

My wife and I are finally getting rid of most of our old VHS tapes. It's about time. I mean, we haven't plugged our VCR in for more than a year. Those old tapes were...more

Support Green Charities by Buying or Selling on eBay March 10th, 2009

Giving Works Program Supports the Charities of Your Choice

Looking for a way to support a green charity, but you don't have much cash on hand? Try selling something on eBay and donating the proceeds to the enviro-charity of your choice. eBay's Giving Works program...more

Upgrading Your Cell Phone? Go Green with Refurbished Phones March 5th, 2009

Why Buy New When You Can Buy Used?

How often do you replace your cell phone? Every two years? Every year? More often than that? How many cell phones have you gone through in your life so far? Think about all of those old...more

A Blow to Cell Phone Recycling? Recycled Phones Found to Still Have Your Data February 3rd, 2009

Follow These Tips to Wipe Your Data Clean Before Donating Your Old Phones

Hundreds of thousands of new cell phones are sold every year. Most of them go to replace older phones, which can end up being donated, refurbished and resold, thereby keeping them out of landfills and...more

Eliminating Capitalism? July 4th, 2008

Terracycle Turns Trash into Useful Stuff

Archaeologists from the future might think that the most valuable product from contemporary society is our garbage. The Egyptians and Incans horded gold in royal tombs, and we horde our plastic refuse in giant landfills!...more

Trash Crisis Brings Out the Garbage Police June 30th, 2008

Europe Will Have to Recycle More, Dump Less

In the city of Whitehaven in northern England (almost at the Scotland border), Britons are balking at a government crackdown on trash. Earlier this year, for example, local bus driver Gareth Corkhill was fined $215...more

REUSE REUSE REUSE RECYCLE! The NEW 4 R's! May 26th, 2008

What Could Possibly be Better than Recycling? Reusing Before you Recycle!

We all understand the importance of recycling, but there's an extra little step we can take with our recyclable materials on the way to the recycling bin to help reduce our waste even more! To...more

Reduce, Reuse... FREECYCLE April 29th, 2008

Online service helps connect your extra stuff with those who need it

Let's say you have a bike you don't need. Or a pile of extra magazines sitting in your house. Or some clothes your children have outgrown. You could throw them out. You could recyle them....more

Five Ways to Use eBay for Your Green Wedding April 15th, 2008

Buy Less New Stuff for the Big Day with eBay

  1. Your dress. eBay can be used to find not just your dress, but your bridesmaids' dresses, your flower girl's dress, the groom's suit, shoes, and accessories. And often, they are CHEAP! You can go...more