Don't you hate paying $12 for a six pack of your favorite watered down beer? Think about all the energy that is put into brewing, bottling and distributing that beer. Why not just become your own...
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Get things to help your garden grow. From beneficial insects to cleaning and sanitation supplies. This place has everything you need to brew and grow!
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Kambucha tea is great for you and many health benefits. By brewing it yourself.
Use a glass container. No lid (cover top with paper towel, so it can breath). Check out...
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Bring your used ink cartridge to any staples and receive $3. back...
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Drastically reduce the waste created in packaging by buying in bulk.
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Conserve energy for carpooling with other people going to the same place. You will all also save money on gas, tolls, parking and ultimately car maintenance.
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Chemicals commonly found in household products include:
Pesticides:
add list of pesticides here...
Herbicides:
add list of pesticides here...
Insecticides:
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Chemicals commonly found in household products include:
Pesticides:
add list of pesticides here...
Herbicides:
add list of pesticides here...
Insecticides:
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By using sheets made of organic cotton or bamboo (and died with natural dies) to avoid the pesticides often used in conventionally grown cotton and the VOCs in many dies.
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By choosing eco-friendly furniture, you will avoid the formaldehyde, toxic finishes, synthetic fillers and other harmful chemicals used in conventionally produced furniture.
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Recycle old clothes at a local drop off center. You can obtain a receipt and receive a tax deduction. If the...
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Save your food scraps in a container and take them to your local garden or farmers market to compost. See the list of compost drop off locations in Brooklyn for more information:...
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Okay to Compost
vegetable scraps, fruit peels, coffee grounds & filters, tea bags, dirty napkins, bread, cereal, egg and nut shells, wood ash, cut flowers, house plant trimmings, brewery...
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Living in the city that produces more trash than any other in the United States requires that we constantly reassess how we dispose of our waste. An important rethinking of trash disposal in the...
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In the limited space on a fire escape outside a window of an apartment, you can maintain a small, yet rewarding, herb garden.
Follow these steps and refer to the links for more information...
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A faucet aerator is often found at the tip of model indoor water faucet. Without an aerator, water usually flows out of a faucet as one big stream. An aerator spreads this stream into many little...
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A faucet aerator is often found at the tip of model indoor water faucet. Without an aerator, water usually flows out of a faucet as one big stream. An aerator spreads this stream into many little...
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There are three steps to reducing your junk mail (four depending on where you live) (five if you want to spend some money).
Step 1
If you receive unwanted catalogs or other mail...
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Use paper that has only been written or printed on one side to make your own note pad. You can get creative with ways of binding them. The easiest to make and use is to cut the paper into the size...
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Unlike conventional cotton, organic cotton is grown without pesticides, herbicides, insecticides, chemical fertilizers or any other chemicals. For a complete list of chemicals commonly found in...
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Here’s what you need to make your own organic potting soil:
Sphagnum peat moss holds water and air; provides little nutrition. Vermiculite provides minerals (potassium, calcium and magnesium...
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Our Green Book is the premier magazine for green New Yorkers. Printed on recycled paper with vegetable-based inks, Our Green Book contains rich editorial content and a directory in the back for...
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Our Green Book is the premier magazine for green Long Islanders. Printed on recycled paper with vegetable-based inks, Our Green Book contains rich editorial content and a directory in the back for...
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Our Green Book is the premier magazine for green Manhattanites. Printed on recycled paper with vegetable-based inks, Our Green Book contains rich editorial content and a directory in the back for...
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Many Whole Foods and other grocery stores provide receiving services for plastic # 5. By bringing your yogurt cups and butter bins to one of these local spots you are saving plastic from being...
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There are several different types of plastics that you should know about before recycling:
-Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET or PETE)
-High Density Polyethylene (HDPE)
-Polyvinyl...
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You can place up to six large items (old mattresses, broken televisions, damaged sofas, etc.) on the curb on regular garbage days (except during weeks with a holiday or snow days).
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The NYC Department of Sanitation allows you to recycle the following:
(you can also visit earth911.org to get all the local recycling information you need)
RECYCLE:
– white,...
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Prepare a cost benefit analysis report for you boss showing how much money the company will save by purchasing ceramic or glass cups for employees instead of disposable paper/plastic cups. Chances...
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