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Green Talk™ - 5 new articles
Shouldn’t America Recycles Day Be Called America Reduce or Reuse Day?
Today is America Recycles Day, which is the only day nationally recognized to encourage people to recycle. For the past eleven years, this date has been celebrated across the country increase awareness of recycling at our home and business. (See here as to events in your area.) As the world has evolved, isn’t it time to consider changing this day to America Reuse or Reduce Day encouraging us to reduce and reuse rather than just recycle? Shouldn’t recycling be the last resort? Don’t get me wrong. I believe in recycling but as the recycling for cash coordinator at my school, I see what people recycle. Just to give you a short background, I collect Want to learn more? Read the whole entry » NJ Residents: Recycle your Unwanted or Expired Medication Nov 14, 2009
On November 14, New Jersey residents have the opportunity to clean out their medicine cabinets of unwanted and/or expired medication through the OperationMedicineCabinetNJ.com program from 10 am to 2 pm. According to the program,
Want to learn more? Read the whole entry » Amaranth: Cooking with this Super Grain
This year I decided to plant Amaranth, a highly nutritious grain. I saw its ornamental cousin last year and flipped at how beautiful this plant was. My husband tells me that I grow to grow. It does not matter if I intend to eat it. I enjoy the pleasures of watching a plant grow into its splendor until he hands me the scissors and tells me to cut it. This always pains me. Amaranth is one of those plants that you hate to cut down since its purplish/magenta plumes are just breath-taking. You don’t have to plant it to enjoy the benefits of Amaranth.
What is Amaranth? It was called the grains of the gods. The Aztecs used Amaranth in their... Want to learn more? Read the whole entry » InStyleBelly: Pregnancy Consignment with an Eco Chic Attitude
I love consignment shops. Some of my best consignment purchases have been for special occasions. Think about it. How many times do you wear the same dress to an event? When I saw an article in a local magazine about InStyleBelly, an online consignment shop for the chic swelling belly set, I remember how much I spent on my own maternity wardrobe over a decade ago. Let’s face it. You only wear prego clothes for a certain amount of time and then you need to move onto the next size to fit that swelling bump. When you are pregnant, you have to buy work clothes, play clothes, and perhaps a nice dress or two. When all said and done, you... Want to learn more? Read the whole entry » Will Triple Pane R-5 Windows Become the Norm?
I bet you just got used to hearing about double pane, Low-E glass, Argon filled windows. You know the ones. The ones labeled as ENERGY STAR? Now, there is a new babe in town getting a lot of attention from the Department of Energy. The R-5 window has all the right curves and significant energy savings compared to its distant cousin, the ENERGY STAR window. Yep, this R-5 is energy efficient beauty with triple panes of either high solar-gain, Low-E Glass, Argon/Krpton Gas or high solar-gain, Low-E Glass, Argon/Krpton Gas, depending on your area of the country. According to the DOE,
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