During the holiday season, many folks acquire new electronics as gift, or go shopping for new because the sales are good right now. If this is you, make sure you take steps to green your electronic situation. e-waste is a hard thing to recycle so adding more into the flow, may not be your best option.
Think carefully about upgrades: Do you really need to upgrade to a bigger, newer, more flashy version? Flashy new stuff is overrated, especially if your old equipment works well. If you think you need more space, say on an iPod, you may not. Don’t tell …read more

As Jennifer mentioned in her April poll results post, we’re going to discuss recycling a bit more. But, have you checked out the archives for the Recycle category?
It’s full of lots of good info, and I pulled out a few that might particularly interest you. Jennifer wrote the first three posts below a few months ago, before I joined Tree Hugging Family. They deal with specialized recycling questions, like what to do with prescription bottles.
How to Recycle Prescription Bottles
Smart Paint Disposal
Aerosol Product Recycling
Also, don’t forgot to brush up on your basic recycling terms:
Recycling Terms You Should Know Part One and …read more

Sometimes I like a little rhyming title with my news
Here’s what’s cool and new in green topics around the web this week. Oh, and a totally random picture I like. We can all use a little rural farm field now and then.

Why You Should Wait Until 2010 to Buy a New Car – from Greensense. Just a note, Greensense is a little funky in how they’re set up, it’s not totally user friendly, and I’m not sure why the writers refuse to hit enter, but this new car post is a good read. Just didn’t want you …read more

Yesterday we looked at two recycling terms you need to know in order to make your recycling efforts matter. Today, two more.
We used to be able to look at a container, note the recycle logo and feel happy. Now there are some terms thrown in that might throw you.
Pre-consumer: When a package says “Pre-consumer” it’s referring to the actual waste made during a manufacturing process. This means no-one used the item ever, but it was recycled into something new. This is not the best situation because it creates energy waste that benefited no one. Such as the thick Sunday …read more

We talk a lot about recycling here, and I realized that we often just toss terms around. Here’s a quick primer to get your recycling know-how up to speed.
Recycling:  We all know what recycling is… or do we? When it comes right down to it, recycling means we collect materials that CAN actually be used again. A material must be able to be turned back into raw material and then into something new, or there’s no point in even trying to recycle an object.
Juice lids are one example. We can toss them in a recycle bin, but they can’t be …read more