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Join us on CarbonRally.com

CarbonRally.com is a neat site that we’ve mentioned before. It tracks actions you take to reduce your carbon consumption and impact on the environment. We’ve created a group called “greenho.ws” that is open for everyone to join!So far, with just three team mates, we have climbed to the second page on the leaderboard and would like to go higher!

Join with us to take simple, often obvious, and generally easy actions to help keep the environment green. It’s easy to sign up: just click the “JOIN MY TEAM” link to the left. If you are not already signed up with CarbonRally.com you will be prompted to create a user name and ID. Quick path to join us would be to click again on the link at left, or look for us in the teams section (at the moment, we are on the second page).

Full disclosure here: I did NOT sign up to go vegetarian for two days. It’s tough to pass up those burgers at Five Guys!

Posted by ecodaddy on April 4th, 2008 No Comments

Give Gadgets A Second Life

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Greenman will tell you about this pile of electronics I used to have: old monitors, outmoded PCs, discarded cell phones, even first generation MP3 players and PDAs. It was never easy to part with old equipment, but the pile shrunk. As it did, we gained back closet space.

Most of the time, the old hardware was donated to someone who was a few generations behind in technology. Some of the time, the hardware went to charities. Occasionally, it even went in the trash (I am embarrassed to say).

We’re now going through our annual rite of purging, and I’ve found a new option for used electronics and gadgets.

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Posted by ecodaddy on January 29th, 2008 No Comments

I Get a Charge Out of It

Call 2 RecycleIf you do any type of work around the house I’m sure you have a drill/driver or other battery powered tool. In addition to your tools, you probably also have a number of other cord-less items that use rechargeable batteries. Just like death and taxes rechargeable batteries going bad is one of life’s certainties.

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Posted by greenman on January 22nd, 2008 No Comments

Save MORE Paper

After eliminating credit card applications and financial come-ons, the second biggest paper waste in the mailbox is catalogs.

Many catalogs are from companies we have never done business with and never will. More are from companies we bought something from just once, while fewer still are from companies we do business with occasionally. Most important though, all of these companies have websites or sell their products through other companies’ websites like Amazon.

The question becomes: how can we reduce the number of catalogs we receive in the mail? The answer is that there are several ways to do this.

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Posted by ecodaddy on January 18th, 2008 No Comments