In this series, “Back to Basics”, I am covering the essentials of “going green” by focusing on the basic principles of green living. First in the series was Reduce, the second was Reuse, and today we will cover Recycle.
The purpose of recycling is similar to reusing, except that recycling is usually done to create new [...]
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Back to Basics: Recycle
Posted in Cleaning, Electricity, In the garden, In the kitchen, Indoor pollution, Out n About, Personal pollution, Shopping, Special Occasions, recycling, tagged green living, recycle, recycling on Friday, 7 March 2008 | 1 Comment »
Back to Basics: Reuse
Posted in Cleaning, Electricity, For baby, In the garden, In the kitchen, Indoor pollution, Out n About, Personal pollution, Shopping, Special Occasions, tagged environment, green living, recycle, repurpose, reuse on Wednesday, 5 March 2008 | 2 Comments »
In this series, “Back to Basics”, I am covering the essentials of “going green” by focusing on the basic principles of green living. First in the series was Reduce and today we will cover Reuse, or as I like to call it, repurposing!
The very point of reusing items to take a once useful item and [...]
Back to Basics: Reduce
Posted in Cleaning, Electricity, In the kitchen, Indoor pollution, Out n About, Personal pollution, Shopping, tagged eco-friendly, environment, green apartment, green living, reduce, starbucks on Monday, 3 March 2008 | 4 Comments »
As I was planning this post I came across an article about Starbucks’ recent national break to re-educate their baristas with the intricacies of espresso and cappaccino making (Google “Starbucks 3 hour break to find various articles on the subject). As I read over that particular article it kept occurring to me how often people [...]







