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By Green Living Tips | 05/13/2010
Visiting your hair salon or barber shop in the next couple of days? You can ask them to help in the Gulf of Mexico BP oil leak disaster cleanup effort by donating hair clippings. Yes, hair. Mat...
By Green Living Tips | 05/12/2010
The disaster unfolding in the Gulf of Mexico caused by BP's massive oil leak runs the risk of an additional threat if left too long before it is finally plugged - hurricanes. A news item just pub...
By Green Living Tips | 05/11/2010
Here's an interesting new service. The Organic Wholesale Club has launched its direct to consumer online store offering wholesale prices on over 14,000 organic and natural items from over 800 brand...
By Green Living Tips | 05/7/2010
 I've been scratching my head over the concept of vibrating mascara for a few months. It's a relatively new product here in Australia, but I believe it's been on sale in the USA for a year or so....
By Green Living Tips | 05/6/2010
Forget gum and nasty little plastic toys that are usually dispensed from gumball-type machines - here's a great idea; a seed bomb vending machine. I've written about seed bombs aka seed balls ...
By Green Living Tips | 05/3/2010
I never really gave much thought to bees or many other of the other insects that share our planet until starting up Green Living Tips. When researching about the mysterious bee affliction called ...
By Green Living Tips | 04/29/2010
The highly controversial concept of underground sequestration of carbon emissions from coal fired power generation plants and other facilities has been hotly debated for years. A part of so ...
By Green Living Tips | 04/25/2010
I consider our kerbside recycling service to be pretty good - we have regular separate collections for general recyclables and green waste; but Newcastle-under-Lyme Council in the UK has taken its...
By Green Living Tips | 04/24/2010
Now that I use reusable shopping bags without fail (thanks in part to a state-wide ban on disposable plastic shopping bags), I've become more aware of the number of paper cash register receipts ...
By Green Living Tips | 04/19/2010
Nature continuously taps us on the shoulder about how our disconnection from the environment and our food sources may bite us on the butt big time one day. But what on earth do volcanic eruptions half...
By Green Living Tips | 04/18/2010
Climate change will likely have a bigger impact on our children than us, so it's crucial we arm them with appropriate information so they have the opportunity of perhaps making better decisions than w...
By Green Living Tips | 04/15/2010
HTML clipboard A few years back, I undertook a revegetation project on my previous chunk o' dirt in rural South Australia. It was a fascinating experience propagating trees from seed - and a lot o...
By Green Living Tips | 04/14/2010
This was just sent to me by the folks at Bridge Development and I thought it might be of interest to some GLT readers:"Nano, the world’s smallest house has big hopes to solve the world’s r...
By Green Living Tips | 04/12/2010
Palm oil is everywhere you look these days. It's in so many food products. Even the soap I used tonight I noticed contained palm oil. The reason for its popularity? It's not only versatile, but very c...
By Green Living Tips | 04/11/2010
Fully biodegradable cigarette filters containing plant seeds - a great green innovation or greenwashing? I admit to being a heavily addicted smoker. I've often joked that I may need to take up ...
By Green Living Tips | 04/10/2010
Australia is a reasonably small country population-wise, around 23 million at present; so it was quite a shock when I discovered just one of our supermarket chains is sending out millions of paper b...
By Green Living Tips | 04/7/2010
Just to make something clear from the outset - I think humanure is a wonderful thing. We need to be doing more with our poop and urine. After all, we use horse and cow manure on our gardens wi...
By Green Living Tips | 04/2/2010
Technology certainly has its good and bad points. In some instances it's contributed to environmental degradation and in others it is seeking to repair that damage and raise awareness. On the a...
By Green Living Tips | 03/29/2010
In a world full of environmental doom and gloom, it's always nice to hear stories of headway being made to reduce plastic waste. According to the latest National Post-Consumer Recycled Plastic Bag...
By Green Living Tips | 03/27/2010
The Energy Star system is popular, both here in Australia and in the USA. People do trust it, but perhaps a little too much?I've become a lot more conscious of power consumption in recent years, partl...
By Green Living Tips | 03/24/2010
Ford has estimated it will save $1.2 million and slash its carbon footprint by 16,000-25,000 metric tons annually by simply shutting down its staff computers when not in use (such as overnight and wee...
By Green Living Tips | 03/22/2010
HTML clipboard I published an article a while ago with some tips for how students can go about greening schools, but it really only scratches the surface of all that needs doing to give our kids th...
By Green Living Tips | 03/21/2010
Members of social networks such as Facebook and Twitter are starting to really flex their collective muscle in regard to environmental activism, by using the services to exert pressure on companies to...
By Green Living Tips | 03/19/2010
There's a lot we take for granted when it comes to our food. Most of us wouldn't know something called phosphate plays such a huge role in food production. It's also this rapidly depleting resource ...
By Green Living Tips | 03/17/2010
Bioplastics, or biopolymers, are a form of plastic made from plant materials such as sugar, cellulose and starch. I've mentioned biopolymers in the past in relation to items such as carpet made f...
By Green Living Tips | 03/13/2010
I'm always a little wary of regions that report a drop in carbon emissions, simply because we "outsource" so many of our emissions to developing nations.Lets say you have a carbon intensive industry t...
By Green Living Tips | 03/11/2010
 ACT ON CO2 is a key part of the UK Government’s plan to help tackle climate change. It communicates to the British public through TV, press, radio and online advertising, explaining the li...
By Green Living Tips | 03/9/2010
I've written in the past about used clothes (or as my mother used to correct me in the past, calling them "pre-loved fashions") and their connection to green living.  If you have children, no...
By Green Living Tips | 03/6/2010
Growing up, we were often encouraged to eat all our food as there were thousands of starving children elsewhere who would appreciate what was put in front of us. For most children, probably the big...
By Green Living Tips | 03/3/2010
Earth Hour 2009 was its first year as a global event and a huge success with over 4,000 cities and towns in 88 countries participating.On March 27, 2010, individuals, businesses and governments around...
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