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Tag Archives: wikipedia
Fueling Your Car With Eco-Friendly Products
According to Edmunds.com, fueling your car may be as easy as cleaning out your fridge. It may be as easy as taking out the trash too. Granted, this is still in the future. However, there are many research projects in … Continue reading
Posted in Green Trends
Tagged alternative fuel, animal fats, bioethanol fuel, car race, diesel engines, diesel fuel, fashion changes, fuel engines, gasoline diesel, hemp seeds, jet fuel, landfill gas, liquid gas, sawdust, solar power car, soybeans, storage tanks, vegetable oil, waste management inc, wikipedia
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Recycling Prom Dresses
Every so often you come across an event that you have to tell the world about. I recently heard about a local event called the Lincoln-Way North Music Boosters Prom Resale. (I personally live in the Chicagoland area, and this … Continue reading
Posted in Green Events, Green Living Tips
Tagged blog, bridesmaid dresses, chicago area, closets, fundraiser, greenhouse gases, landfill, lincoln, music boosters, music program, party dresses, prom dress, recycling, reusing, wikipedia
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Driving Green: Oil Changes
Our cars are our pride and joy a lot of times. I love telling people that our Prius averages up 60 miles per gallon when they are complaining about gas prices. However, changing the oil in our cars brings out … Continue reading
Posted in Green Living Tips, Green Tips
Tagged 50 million, antifreeze, car expert, coolant, dashboard, dirty job, engine technology, friction, gas prices, miles per gallon, million cars, oil change interval, oil changes, oil formulations, oil life, pride and joy, prius, sensors, tactic, wikipedia
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Using Eco Friendly Products: Cleaning Up CFLs
With the new regulations that remove incandescent bulbs from the shelves, we all do need to learn what to do if we break one of the new eco friendly CFLs light bulbs. Within the glass tubing, CFLs do contain a small … Continue reading
Posted in Green Tips
Tagged canning jar, cardboard, cleanup materials, collection materials, duct tape, fluorescent bulbs, glass fragments, glass jar, glass tubing, health risks, incandescent bulbs, light bulbs, metal lid, paper towels, recycling center, sticky tape, stiff paper, trash container, wet wipes, wikipedia
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Eco Friendly Products: USDA Biobased Labels
As more people want labels to help them determine which eco friendly products to buy, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has launched a voluntary product certification for biobased commercial and industrial products. This label will show which products, other than food and … Continue reading
Posted in Green Labeling
Tagged agriculture office, biobased products, biological sources, break room, building materials, comparing products, department of agriculture, furniture, great outdoors, housewares, personal care, product categories, proportion, road maintenance, subcategories, toiletries, two ways, u s department, usda, wikipedia
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Eco Friendly Alternatives To Mothballs
In years past, mothballs were the answer to save clothing. You threw some mothballs in with the clothing you wanted to save from season to season and from generation to generation (who hasn’t worn recycled clothing?). There wasn’t ever any … Continue reading
Posted in Green Living Tips
Tagged blood in the urine, cedar chest, cedar shavings, cheesecloth, environment test, generation to generation, ginseng, hemolytic anemia, lack of appetite, moths, pale skin, red blood cells, restlessness, sandalwood, skin exposure, taking the chance, whole cloves, wikipedia, yellow coloration
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How much is a tree worth?
In Chicago on Friday, more than 400 trees will have a price tags on them. These tags will show the environmental benefits of the trees over a 15 year span in a dollar amount. The dollar figures come from the … Continue reading
Eco Friendly Bamboo Uses
Understanding the products we use in our everyday life is the first thing we need to do when we are looking at greening our lives. We have to understand why bamboo is better than rayon and plastic, so we can … Continue reading
Posted in Green Materials
Tagged asian countries, bamboo baskets, bamboo cutting boards, bamboo furniture, bamboo houses, buoyancy, casing, chimes, ecolo, fishing poles, household items, hundreds of years, influx, natural forest, rafts, sewing needles, strong as steel, wikipedia, window blinds, xylophones
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