Great Environmental Books
February 8, 2010
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10 Things You Should Never Buy
In order to go green you need to make some changes in your lifestyle. Purchasing products that have a clearly negative impact on the envriornment should be avoided.  The top 10 products to avoid are:
1. Styrofoam and plastic wrap
2. Bleached coffee filters
3. Products that use excessive packaging
4. Any beauty product containing parabens and phthalates
5. Non eco-friendly household cleaning products
6. Exotic woods such as teak and mahogany
7. Toys that are made from PVC plastics
8. Non-organic pesticides, fertilizers and herbicides
9. High octane gasoline
10. High VOC paint products.
To learn more about why you shouldn’t purchase these items visit A Green Lady
February 7, 2010
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A Green Wedding
Going Green for your wedding is as easy as pie. Check out this green weddding video on how one couple had a very green wedding. Using natural products and items that can be recycled, they managed to pull it off. From natural product invitations, to recycling to earn money to pay for the wedding, to the decorations and the food, you can easily have a green wedding. Be creative and even have an all cotton wedding dress or even a green one; be different. With the hundreds of going green tips floating around the Internet, and help from A Green Lady, your wedding can be truly green.
A Green Lady
January 31, 2010
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Avatar, the movie sends a powerful “green” message
Avatar has become the largest grossing movie of all time, surpassing Titanic. The message the producer, wanted to send was that we are interconnected with nature and hopes to raise the consciousness of the patrons that come to see the movie. This is a “must see” movie for anyone who considers themselves “green” and for those who think green is hogwash.
The movie sends a powerful message and is one of the best movie experiences to date.
To read more about the “green” message, visit A Green Lady and to learn how to get a Free Shopping Card for discount tickets.
Beverly Saltonstall
A Green Lady
January 28, 2010
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Redesigning The American Lawn
Book Review: Redesigning the American Lawn by by F. Herbert Bormann, Diana Balmori, Gordon T Geballe and Lisa Vernegaard
Here in the United States, one of the most polluting things many homeowners are guilty of is the way they take care of their lawns. Millions upon millions of acres of lawn are being subjected to all sort of toxic chemicals and heavy metals, in the form of fertilizers, pesticides and herbicides.
After adding all these pollutants to the lawn to make the grass grow, we then take a horribly polluting gas mower to cut it all down. (To read a hysterical discussion about the ridiculous cycle of fertilizing our lawn to make them grown, and then cutting them down, be sure and read St. Francis’s conversation with God)
One tip on going green is to take a hard look at our lawn. Reduce and/or eliminate the chemicals you are adding to the lawn and consider a more eco-friendly lawn mower when it needs replacement.
Redesigning The American Lawn is one of the best resources available to turn your lawn from a chemical laden polluting piece of property to an eco-friendly place you can be proud of.
To read more about the Book and how to get your discounted copy visit, A Green Lady.com , and to read more about this great book.
January 24, 2010
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Miss America 2010 Is Green
No, Miss America2010 isn’t going to be an alien, she just better have some good answers when she is asked what going green means to her. Seems as though the TV host Green T, AKA Tamara Henry interviewed the 53 contestants “about what “going green” means to them. The winner of the “Green is Gorgeous” contest reportedly will win a collection of eco-friendly gifts.
To read more about the contest go to http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/beauty-fashion/blogs/whos-the-greenest-miss-america-contestant
To learn more about why you should be going green, visit A Green Lady today
January 21, 2010
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Is There Junk in/on Your Trunk?
What many people don’t think about is the fact that added weight in a car such as junk in the trunk, cuts down on fuel consumption. It has been estimated that every hundred pounds of weight in an automobile cuts down on fuel MPG by as much as 2 %.
Years ago, cars were monstrous. Huge tail fins, heavy chrome and and the use of heavy metal for the construction, made those cars gas guzzlers like you wouldn’t believe. Over the years auto manufacturers have pulled all the stops in an effort to make modern automobiles lighter in order to improve fuel consumption.
As a going green tip, clean out the trunk of your car to save money and save fuel. But would you like some going green advice on how to save even more on fuel? Something that many people don’t think about as another source of added weight in an automobile is the extra junk on YOUR trunk.
If you are 50 pounds overweight, your automobiles fuel consumption is cut by 1%. If you have spouse that is equally overweight, now you are adding 2% less fuel economy. If you hang out with obese friends, or have allowed your children to become obese, you are losing money hand over foot, every time you drive your automobile. 1 or 2 % doesn’t sound like a lot, but you could save 3-5 cent a gallon, which over the course of time will add up.
Want to save money on nearly everything you buy? Sign up for a FREE SHOPPING CARD
This card gives you access to a mall with hundreds of merchants that will give you a discount on things you already buy. Get your FREE SHOPPING CARD and save on Weight Watchers, and purchase a Walmart gasoline gift card and get a discount on every gallon of gasoline you purchase at Walmart stores that sell gasoline.
Losing a few extra pounds is not only good for the environment it is also good for your health, your car, and your pocketbook. Getting you FREE SHOPPING CARD will get you savings on a whole lot of things you already buy. Why not save money and get reward points on top of the savings.
Beverly Saltonstall
A Green Lady
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January 16, 2010
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Grab The Tiger By The Tail
In doing my research for this blog, I decided to encourage my readers to make “going green” a New Years Resolution. Since animals are so important to ancient cultures and often hold hidden meanings, I decided to check to see what animal represents this year in the Chinese New Year. As it turns out it is the year of the tiger.
There has been a very old saying, take the tiger by the tail. My first thought was great this is a great saying to go with my green idea. Let’s grab that tiger by the tail and run with the idea. But being the researcher I am, I decided to look up the meaning of that expression and was amazed at what it really meant.
1. One definition is to “take the chance” or run the risk.
2. Something too difficult to manage or cope with
3 You’ve taken up a position which you thought would give you control but in fact is going to be very difficult or dangerous to escape from.
So grabbing the tiger by the tail isn’t such a great going green advice. Going green, doesn’t involve taking chances, it simply means learning the reasons why we need to live a greener lifestyle and what steps we plan to take to achieve that goal.
It isn’t difficult to manage. In fact going green can be quite easy. How hard is it to turn off the faucet while you are brushing your teeth or shaving in order to save hundreds of gallons of water?
Going green isn’t dangerous. In fact not going green and continually exposing yourself to toxic chemicals is dangerous. And why would anyone in their right mind go from living a healthy green lifestyle back to living a life full of pollution, waste and nasty chemicals? It would certainly be easy to do if you so choose, by again, WHY?
For great going green tips and advice, be sure an visit this blog’s sister website, A Green Lady
January 9, 2010
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Happy Green New Year
Well now that the holidays are over and we are settling down to our old routines, it’s time to think about our New Year Resolutions. Forget the usuals like dieting and exercise, lets come up with some resolutions with some teeth. Let this be the year of the GREEN! There are literally thousands of tips available to help you with this new path in life. Many of them are so downright simple it’s scary. For example, how hard is it to turn the water off while you are brushing your teeth? It costs nothing, and actually saves you money by not wasting water.
If you only took one green idea a week and incorporated it into your life, next year you would have made 52 easy changes that make a serious difference in the world.
There is no need to go big bucks for solar panels, wind generators and the like. Simply using cloth napkins instead of paper, and foregoing the plastic cups, paper plates and other disposals is a big deal. Eliminating styrofoam coffee cups from your life will also make a huge impact for the better as far as the environment goes.
To learn more about going green, visit http://agreenlady.com
Happy New Year from A Green Lady
January 6, 2010
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Using Plants to Improve Air Quality
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been studying air quality for a long time and is in agreement that the air in our homes is 5-10 more polluted than the air outside. These findings coincide with the discovery of a core of symptoms experienced by individuals who are in homes and office buildings with poor air quality. “Sick Building Syndrome” was a very real and very serious health issue for many people.
The poor air quality found in homes was due to the fumes from a soup of toxic chemicals from the products we use in our homes such as carpeting, paints, fabrics and more. Worse was the fact that the vapors given off by these products continues for years after they are installed or used.
So what’s the solution? The best going green advice is to eliminate as many of these products as possible. Many “green” alternatives to carpeting, paints and the use of natural fabrics will eliminate the problem. But not all of us have money tree in the back yard that allows us to replace all this stuff that is causing a problem.
One simple idea to help rid your home of these toxic fumes is to simply add live house plants to your decorating scheme. Researchers at NASA found that very specific house plants did a great job of scrubbing the air of toxic chemicals.
For a detailed list of the plants they recommended, visit http://agreenlady.com
December 30, 2009
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