Posted by Alisha on Monday, October 15th, 2007 – 3:04 pm
Blog Action Day, October 15th, is a day that bloggers participate by writing a post relating to the environment, donating the day’s earnings, and/or promoting Blog Action Day. According to Blog Action Day, 15,000+ 20,000+ blogs are participating. I participated by writing 11 Ways to Save Trees.
I have read some well written posts regarding the environment today. I decided I would share them with you in hopes that you will consider getting involved, not just today, but every day.
- Freelance Switch, Cyan Ta’eed wrote 29 Simple Ways to Become a More Environmentally Friendly Freelancer and wants the readers’ help to donate $500 to charity. Freelance Switch is pledging to donate $1 for every reader who leaves a comment pledging to take on one of the suggestions listed in the post (or your own). I plan to shutdown my computer every night when finished with work.
- ProBlogger, Darren Rowse wrote How Can Bloggers Be Environmentally Responsible? leaving readers with a question to answer: ‘how can we as bloggers be involved in saving the environment?’
- Larissa Meek wrote Blog Action Day: Green Design, listing some very creative ways for reusing recycled items. My favorite is the recycled glass and the grocery bags.
- Essential Keystrokes, Charlene wrote 5 R’s For A Greener World. Read the post to find out ways you can reduce, reuse, recycle, renew and respect.
- Lifehacker, Wendy Boswell wrote Easy Ways to Live Greener. Read the post and then vote for your favorite green hack! I voted for Bring Your Own Mug to Coffee Shops because those disposables can add up with the amount of people who drink coffee!
- Know More Media, Kimberlee Morrison wrote Blog Action Day: What You Can Do at Home and In the Office to Protect the Earth. She lists some of Al Gore’s tips for making your home more environmentally friendly while saving money, too.
- Dumb Little Man, Jay White wrote Items You Never Thought to Recycle. He lists things that can be recycled, leaving off the obvious things like newspapers, magazines, soda cans, etc. It is very easy to mistake recyclable items for garbage.
For more blogs that have participated on this day, browse Google Blog Search and Technorati.
If you’re a reader, please feel free to leave a link to your post for Blog Action Day if it’s not listed above.
Posted by Alisha on Monday, October 15th, 2007 – 1:37 am
People use way too much paper. Most of it comes in the form of junk in the mailbox. Although it’s great to have important information on paper, some things are probably just taking up unnecessary space. Right? Computers are all around us, yet we still use a lot of paper.
I use paper for notes when I could easily just use my computer, since these notes are just going to be tossed anyway. Microsoft OneNote would be a great way to store notes.
Here is a list of 11 ways to save trees:
- Opt-out from unwanted catalogs, magazines and other junk mail, e.g. credit card offers.
- Opt-out of paper bills and start paying bills online.
- If you must print, use both sides of paper. And, print the printer friendly version.
- Borrow books from the library or friends that will only be read once. Not only will this help trees, but it will save you money. Or try using e-book readers.
- Reuse notepaper until it is used completely on both sides.
- Recycle your newspapers.
- Get involved.
- Use GreenPrint.
- Use Webster’s USB New World Dictionary. [Product page] Or, there’s also Merriam-Webster USB Dictionary/Thesaurus.
- Subscribe to Website Magazine for free and a tree will be planted on your behalf.
- Or we could just grow Hemp?
Today is Blog Action Day. Are you doing your part to save a tree?
Posted by Alisha on Monday, September 17th, 2007 – 9:08 pm
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I hope if you have a cell phone or two, that you’ll consider checking out CellForCash because of how hazardous they may be to the environment and health. And we use cell phones? Please recycle your cell phone for free!
You may not realize it, but many of those old cell phones are valuable – some much more valuable than you may think. On the down side, all of them contain hazardous substances that can pose a threat to the environment and to public health if disposed of properly.
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