Green Tip: Phone Books No More!

Green Tip: Help us save on paper and opt out of the mailings for the Yellow Pages!

Sign up on YellowPagesGoesGreen.org to end the excessive printing for phone books. Here’s the chance to remove your home and office number from the telephone directories and only get a phone book when you need it.

All you need to do is provide your:

• Name
• Last Name
• Address
• City
• State
• Zip
• Email Address
• Opt out of: White Page and Yellow Pages

Together, all of us can make the world a better place and go Green!

Green Gift

One of my New Year’s resolutions was to live a greener life. I’ve got a few friends with upcoming birthdays for March/April and wanted to go green with their gifts. Believe it or not, there are a lot of gifts to choose from. So why not tell someone you love them and the planet?

• Bamboo Mouse - No more plastic mouse
• Bamboo Picture Frames – A new decor look for their place
• Biodegradable Pots – Better for the plants and the planet
• Reusable Coffee Sleeves - Save the tress and get a fun pattern
• Eco friendly Tote bag – Save your friends money on grocery bags and help them not use plastic bags
• Charity gift card – Let your friend pick their favorite nonprofit organization and donate in their name

Here’s a cheap and inexpensive way to wrap the present: use a left over paper bag from the grocery store and add a green bow for the theme.

Any other ideas? Going green is the way to go!

Go Green & Save

Need a better way to manage your money? Quicken has a great tool, Mint.com, a free application that you can use to manage your money. It’s a great website because you can use Mint.com to maintain all of your financial accounts (credit cards, stocks, savings, etc). I’ve set up my Mint account to have monthly budgets and you can see the breakdown of your spending habits. It’s really changed the way I spend. You can even set up your account to notify you when you go over your budgets and they can send you text messages.

If you’re worried about hackers, don’t worry about people getting your financial information. Mint.com provides bank-level security by signing in anonymously.  You can not move any money, it’s a read-only service.

Try it out to save and go green!

The Responsible Pet Owner…

Everyone should be doing it. The question is: are you doing it? Give into the peer pressure, and pick up after your pet. It’s one of the things pet owners ignore, but we’re asking you to do it.

Do you enjoy stepping on gum? It’s the same feeling when you step in a pet’s waste.  Think of your neighbors when you take your pets out. Not only is it necessary, it’s also healthy for you. Viruses, bacteria, and parasites  can spread and the waste creates a nasty odor.

Things to remember:

• Golden Rule:  Treat others the way you wish to be treated!
• Do-it-Yourself: Pick up your animal’s waste
• You can help keep down the amount of illnesses
• Use Flushable bags: A bag that breaks down any wastes and won’t affect your plumbing

We love your pets, but we also love our property. Help us take care of Watkins Station and please remember to clean up after your pets!

Need Green Tips?

Spring cleaning is almost here, why not use these 10-minute green home makeover tips?

• Want a cozy living room?
• Need to get rid of old electronics from the 80’s?
• Sick of your old sofa?
• Have outdated kitchen supplies?
• Need more counter space?
• Want to recycle, but don’t know how?
• Do you use too much water?
• Is your desk covered in papers?
• Want a “green” office?
• Can’t concentrate anywhere in your house?

If you answer yes to any of these questions, read this article from Earth911.com!

Reuse Everything As Much As Possible

Watkins Station, I found an article on earth911.com that can help you to reuse almost everything.  Read their article here:

Recycling A Widely Used Product

As one of the hardest items to recycle, aluminum foil is a widely used household product that most people tend to throw away right after use.  Because we use it to cook, grill, and wrap food it is usually dirty after its first use.

Thousands of tons of aluminum foil make it to our landfills every year.  What we don’t realize is aluminum foil is 100% recyclable.  It is extremely durable can be reused multiple times.  Even though it is often dirtier and harder to recycle, it takes 95% less energy to make aluminum from recycled aluminum versus using virgin materials.

Before reading the article, I always threw away my aluminum foil.  How do you dispose of aluminum foil?

Recycle your foil here

Reuse Your iPod

A new iPod is on the way, and everybody loves the latest and greatest. Or maybe that first-generation click-wheeler you bought finally gave up the ghost, and you want to upgrade to a tiny little MP3 player.

If you’re like me, you might have a drawer full of old iPods at home (honest, some were gifts!). What can you do with them?

If the device is still functional, try giving it away. If friends and family are all set with MP3 players, offer it to your local Freecycle group and someone will surely pick it up.
Check out information at: http://green.yahoo.com

Going Green To Create Jobs

I am very confused about how the bill to curb carbon emissions will affect the employment of many.

TV ads by a business group says if this bill is enacted then it will cost 2.4 million U.S. jobs which contradicts President Obama who says the bill will create 1.7 million jobs.

Who do you believe?

Read more about this story here…

Don’t Throw Away The Newspaper

I know you have a ton of Sunday papers around the house. Don’t throw them a way, make a basket out of them.

Hey, there was a table made from magazines, so you can surely make a basket from newspaper and it is cute, too.

See how here

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