Archive for February, 2010
Posted by Candice on February 26, 2010 at 17:33 pm
Friday
“Earth911.com is your one-stop shop for all you need to know about reducing your impact, reusing what you’ve got and recycling your trash. Get involved in our world by checking in for daily news, reading weekly feature stories, surfing product channels and opting into our weekly emails.”
This website got it’s start as a hot line for recycling and has grown into a busy website with around 200,000 unique visitors in January according to compete.com. They do still have their hotline though so you can still call them on 1-800-CLEANUP if you prefer a live person to help you find a recycling location (their database has over 100,000 across the country) or specific information on where to recycle electronic goods or packing peanuts.
Earth911.com has definitely enjoyed more than five minutes of fame having been featured on The Oprah Winfrey Show and Good Morning America as well as online in the The New York Times. You can also find their content syndicated on sites ranging from National Geographic to the Huffington Post.
If you were to encapsulate their mission, the folks at Earth911 are all about the 3 R’s – reduce, reuse, recycle! They want to show you how to make your trash another man’s treasure or how to direct your trash to the best place for it to be recycled or reused. They want to provide the guidance that will help you to clean up your home, your community and your world by being environmentally responsible.
This is a site the Bidmycleaning team loves! Hop on over to visit Earth911.com today!
Posted by Candice on February 19, 2010 at 14:34 pm
Friday
Today’s web find is a wonderful source of information on natural health, living a naturally healthy lifestyle and integrating natural, organic and green products into your life. We are beginning to understand more and more how harmful preservatives, food coloring, harsh chemicals, growth hormones and/or pesticides can be linked to degenerative diseases such as cancer, heart disease and diabetes. It is becoming more important to be informed about new research on these and on how to protect yourself and your family. The Naturally Savvy website is a great place to start.
The focus at Naturally Savvy is on Food and Nutrition, Health and Wellness, living mindfully and naturally green. Resources include Savvy TV, Savvy Forums, Savvy Blogs and an Ask The Experts form. The experts in this case are Andrea Donsky, Registered Holistic Nutritionist (R.H.N.) and co-founder of NaturallySavvy.com with Randy Boyer, Lisa Tsakos, NaturallySavvy’s very own Registered Nutritionist and other contributors on topics ranging from sports nutrition to pet care.
In the category of most interest to us, green cleaning, the focus is on “teach[ing] you how to scrub your home inside and out without hurting the environment or your family.” Recent posts include “Cleaning Naturally Improves Indoor Air Quality” and green floor cleaning and an interesting one on UV-C Light Technology, although you won’t be using this in your home any time soon.
Visit today and you will find lots to enjoy.
Posted by Candice on February 17, 2010 at 09:53 am
House Cleaning Music
When it comes to cleaning house, this is a task most don’t enjoy and don’t look forward to but can there be an upside to cleaning? Of course there is the obvious pleasure in a nice clean home that smells fresh but what about some benefits for you personally? Can house cleaning be something that contributes to your health lifestyle?
House cleaning can be hard work – if you do it right you can get your heart rate up and work up a good sweat. Wear a heart rate monitor while you vacuum or clean your floors and you may be surprised to find that it goes up as much as walking on the treadmill or using the elliptical. Incorporate some knee bends and squats to make it more effective. If you keep up a good pace and don’t stop when transitioning from one activity to another house cleaning can be a full body workout. When wiping countertops and cleaning the shower you can give your arms a workout but be sure to switch off arms half way through.
A great way to keep up the pace is play some high-energy music. A quick scan of tweets about cleaning on twitter shows that lots of people do in fact listen to music while cleaning and that Lady Gaga is currently a popular choice. She certainly qualifies as high-energy.
Posted by Candice on February 9, 2010 at 16:31 pm
Clearly Essential Natural House Cleaning
We’ve written many posts on this blog about how important it is to make the switch to using natural cleaning products in your home. We even have our Green Cleaning Pantry series to help you make your own cleaning products at home. However, if you’re like me, finding the time to do all that home brewing can be challenging.
We were happy to meet Lisa Thomas on twitter and to hear about how in a search for cleaning products that would be safe enough to use around her toddler, she created an all natural window cleaner that amazed her mother, husband and even Lisa herself at how well it worked. This evolved to the Clearly Essential Multi-Purpose Cleaner that Lisa found to be effective on spilled red wine and pic pen scribbles on the sofa.
Lisa’s range of natural house cleaning products has expanded to include Clearly Essential Multi-Purpose Cleaner, Toilet Solution, Extra-Strength Kitchen & Bath Cleaner, Lemon Scrub, and most recently Cinnamon Scrub. The line is based on Lisa’s secret blend of essential oils and basic natural cleaning ingredients.
From the Clearly Essential website; “Our concept is simple. When you develop a cleaning product made with ingredients so natural, so safe, and so effective… a product you could wash your face and hands with, yet clean your house or car with, you make it available to everyone. We all want what’s healthiest for our families. And you’re probably here wondering what we’re all about because you also want what’s best for the planet… its waterways, oceans, forests, fields, and all of Earth’s amazing creatures. We do, too.”
Lisa was kind enough to send us some samples of her product lin. Our favorite is the lemon scrub which smells just like lemonade. All the products are effective cleaners and Lisa has a great idea to cut down on plastic bottles. Once you purchase your first spray bottle, you can then buy small glass refills which you mix with water to fill up the original spray bottle. It’s really great when a green company goes the extra step to making sure their packaging and shipping is eco-friendly too. The eco-friendly packaging was a little messy but Lisa says they are still working on finding the perfect solution.
Visit their website to buy some cleaning products or just Google them to find one of their online retailers.
Posted by Candice on February 3, 2010 at 15:50 pm
Bidmycleaning's Twitter-ific Giveaway
February is Twitter-ific Time at Bidmycleaning.com. We are giving away a $150 gift certificate for maid service to one of our twitter followers!
February is also Valentine’s Month which is why we are giving away a gift certificate for maid service The gift of house cleaning is the perfect Valentine’s Day gift … or Mother’s Day gift or Birthday gift or just away to say Thank You!
How do you enter our Twitter-ific Giveaway?
- Follow @bidmycleaning on Twitter.
- Tweet the following message to your followers:
Win $150 gift certificate for maid service! Follow @bidmycleaning.com – Contest details – http://ow.ly/13wpI
Click Here to Tweet Now
Prizes will be awarded subject to the following:
- The winner will be announced by March 1, 2010 or as soon as we hit 1,000 Twitter followers whichever comes first.
- The winner will receive a $150 Gift Card for maid service on http://www.bidmycleaning.com. The gift certificate will be valid for 2 months from receipt.
- Only one contest entry is allowed for each Twitter user account.
- This is a spam-free zone. Spam tweets will be disqualified.
We look forward to meeting all our new twitter friends!
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