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Posted by Candice on April 16, 2010 at 16:31 pm
Friday's Eco-Friendly Find
Earth Day 2010 is coming up soon – on April 22nd to be precise. In preparation we looked for some resources for Earth Day information. The Earth Day Network (Earthday.net) is ground central for Earth Day – their mission is to power the environmental movement and ensure a healthy and sustainable planet for all of us. They do this by helping to mobilize communities, implement environmental education programs and support Earth Day events and actions around the world. Their aim is to galvanize millions to make personal commitments to sustainability.
The Earth Day Action Center (Earthday.org) is where you can go to find out about Earth Day events and to create your own action campaign or have a look at what others have committed to doing. Some examples are the 100 Miles Food Challenge and the Walk For Water.
Other ways to get involved are by creating a petition or making a pledge. Your pledge could be as simple as opting to use eco-friendly and green cleaning products in your home or to support a local green cleaning company if you hire a regular maid service – use our Green Cleaning Calculator to get bids from a local house cleaning provider if you don’t already have one. Each small undertaking is a contribution to a wider drive to improve our world.
If you’re unsure about where to get involved you can browse the ‘Core Issues’ section of the site. These include Climate Change, Conservation & Biodiversity, Energy, Recycling & Waste Reduction and Sustainable Development. Stop by the Action Center today to see how you can make a difference.
Last year we blogged about Earth Day 2009.
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 January 22, 2010 at 00:36 am
Friday
Greenopolis are about doing good. They want to make the world a better place and try to do this by providing positive solutions. Their specific focus is on recycling, reusing, repurposing and conservation.
The Greenopolis belief is that “to actually change the world, recycling and preserving our precious natural resources must be easy and rewarding.” There is a reward system called “Think Green Rewards” which can be earned in several ways. The rewards can be redeemed for discounts and coupons to me used on meals, entertainment, dining, travel and more. Their partners include Marriott, Dominos Pizza and Blockbuster.
At their website, Greenopolis.com , you earn rewards by blogging, commenting and inviting other to join the website community. The website content is focused on proving information and tools to help you recycle easily, learn about conservation and saving our natural resources. The website philosophy is to educate and reward while providing content that is positive, fun to read, visually interesting and provides links to more information where applicable.
The other way to earn rewards is returning aluminum cans and PET to GreenOps Tracking Stations which are being deployed at locations like Qualcomm Stadium in San Diego and Whole Foods Markets. You can find more locations at their website.
Posted by Candice on November 18, 2009 at 14:53 pm
Going Green: Cut The Junk
The mail we send and receive is probably one of the main areas where we can make a big difference when it comes to doing our part towards going green. Unlike with plastics where it can be difficult to know which ones are OK to recycle, paper is paper and it can all go into the recycle bin.
Now the US Postal Service is making it even easier to recycle unwanted mail. Their new “Read, Respond, Recycle” program will provide postal customers with a convenient, environmentally responsible alternative to bringing home or discarding their mail. The Post Service recycles more than 1 million tons of paper, plastic and other materials.
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Posted by Candice on October 2, 2009 at 10:30 am
Friday's Eco-Friendly Find
As it’s name implies, Do The Green Thing is all about inspiring green action. Their belief is that individuals can make an impact but a community can make a much bigger one and in so doing, encourage governments and businesses to follow suit. They have inspired people from 202 countries that have visited the site 4 million times, told 52,054 stories, and saved 11,389.00 tonnes of CO2. Green Thing, a not-for-profit public service that is Green Thing is endorsed by some of the planet’s leading environmental thinkers, uses videos and inspiring stories from around the world to highlight 7 key things you can do to lead a greener life because they believe entertainment is very inspiring while lecturing is less so.
What are the seven things?
- Walk The Walk
- Stay Grounded
- All Consuming
- Easy On The Meat
- Human Heat
- Plug Out
- Stick With What You Got
All seven are pretty self evident as to what they encourage. For example ‘Walk the Walk’ is about getting from A to B without any C ie. car and ‘Plug Out’ is a their take on a philosophy being promoted by all green initiatives which essentially encourages people to cut the use of electricity-guzzling electronics and not leave electronics plugged in. ‘All Consuming’ promotes the the art of wasting nothing and using up everything or “one man’s biscuit tin is another man’s tool box” and “let everything be born again as something spangly and useful”. Their latest initiative in this category is the ‘Glove Love’ campaign which encourages people to send in their mismatched gloves to be matched with a partner and then sent to a glove loving new owner.
An interesting item I found under their ‘innovation’ tag is Amazon’s initiative to be less wasteful with right-sizing their packaging by having “software determine the “right-sized” box for any given item based on dimension and weight”. Hopefully this means a whole lot less of the dreaded packing peanuts and sealed air bags will make their way to landfills. The blog is also a great read with lots of fun features like the one showing how you can use one black dress 365 days of the year and still have a different outfit each day and another featuring the best environmental poster ads.
To keep up with what’s new and newsy at Green Thing follow them on Twitter – http://twitter.com/dothegreenthing but definitely make sure you stop by sometime.
Posted by cstone on September 24, 2009 at 14:24 pm
Quick Clean Ups
If we all just for one day looked at everything we consume and use and tried to find ways to clean up our act so to speak we would realize that there are many opportunities to be more green and eco-friendly.
Here are 7 quick ways to send a little less to the landfill:
- Junk Mail: There are 100 billion mail items sent every year in the US. If you think about all the resources that go into making that happen it is mind-boggling. Think of the trees, the water, the power, the mail processing facilities, the cars the mail carriers drive. Just cutting down the amount of junk mail you received will make a huge difference! There are services available to help you do that eg. http://www.41pounds.org/
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Posted by Candice on April 22, 2009 at 13:24 pm
Earth is our Home - Earth Day is for cleaning house!
Today is Earth Day — April 22 – and this year is the 39th year! Just one more to the 40th anniversary of Earth Day. On April 22, 1970, 20 million Americans took to the streets, parks, and auditoriums to demonstrate for a healthy, sustainable environment. Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, then a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin, proposed the first nationwide environmental protest “to shake up the political establishment and force this issue onto the national agenda. Denis Hayes, the national coordinator, and his youthful staff organized massive coast-to-coast rallies. Thousands of colleges and universities organized protests against the deterioration of the environment. Groups that had been fighting against oil spills, polluting factories and power plants, raw sewage, toxic dumps, pesticides, freeways, the loss of wilderness, and the extinction of wildlife suddenly realized they shared common values.
Now in 2009 it seems that not much has changed – we are still fighting oil spills destroying our oceans and marine creates but add to that a huge swirling mass of plastic, we still have rampant pollution but now we also have the threat of global warming, we are still fighting the use of toxic chemicals in everything from cleaning products to personal care products and we still need efforts like ‘Replanting the Rainforests’ to try and reverse the loss of our wildeness.
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Posted by Candice on November 11, 2008 at 14:06 pm
As we all adopt the latest and greatest technology whether it be the latest Blu-ray DVD player, the new ergonomic iPod Nano or the newest, just launched, revolutionary gadget, all of our now obsolete DVD players, mp3 players or dinosaur-gadgets need to be discarded. Teaming up with Waste Management, Sony has built a recycling program that makes it easy to dispose of electronics in an environmentally-safe way. The Sony Take-Back program gives Sony customers a free and convenient way to recycle up to five Sony products per day by dropping them off at designated Waste Management eCycling Drop-Off Centers throughout the country.
A study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency showed that in 2005, used or unwanted electronics amounted to approximately 1.9 to 2.2 million tons. Of that, about 1.5 to 1.9 million tons were primarily discarded in landfills, and only 345,000 to 379,000 tons were recycled.
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Posted by Candice on October 10, 2008 at 22:43 pm
The time has come to toss the wrapping paper and paper gift bags! Clean up your act when it comes to wrapping up the carefully chosen presents you give your friends, families and co-workers. A side benefit is that you’ll never spend time hunting for scissors and the tape again either.
Lucky Crow Gift Bags are a waste-free way to wrap a gift. You will be playing a major role in the elimination of the massive amount of garbage created from the disposal of wrapping paper, tissue paper, paper gift bags, and ribbon – over 2.7 billion dollars a year worth of gift wrap that usually ends up in our landfills?
These gift bags really are are stylish and they are a gift in and of themselves.
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Posted by Candice on August 22, 2008 at 22:03 pm
Here at BidMyCleaning we are doing our best to be better citizens of the planet – we are doing our best at being greener in our homes and in the way we do business. We are always interested in new green products, green services and what other businesses are doing. We include great finds in our Eco-Friendly Link Directory and now each week we are going to feature one here on our blog.
Our first find this week is a company that is guided by the principles that reducing landfill is good and that using less petroleum-generated energy to make products is good too. They make a range of bags, totes, jackets and sleeves out of yarn created from 100% recycled soda and water bottles.
As quoted on their
website:
Plastic bottles (PET #1) are one of the biggest environmental disasters today. In the United States alone, 230 bottles per person go to landfill per year. That’s enough crushed bottles to fill the Rose Bowl Stadium in California every two weeks.
The bottles2bags range includes messenger bags, totes and laptop jackets and sleeves.
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