Archive for the ‘going green products’ Category
Yikes! There’s a New Product in Town
According to the Kleenex website “People in the U.S. dry their hands on cloth bathroom towels approximately 200 billion times a year.” So what is their solution? A brand new product on the market called Kleenex Hand Towels. The result. 200 billion more pieces of paper in our landfills, and an untold number of trees [...]
July 25, 2010
Tags: earth friendly, environmentally friendly, hand washing, kleenex hand towels, non toxic Posted in: Going Green, going green products 
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Where are the Cell Phones Going?
Where you aware? There are millions upon millions of cell phones in America that are no longer being used. Cell phones contain a host of hazardous materials including Arsenic, Antimony, Beryllium, Cadmium, Copper, Lead, Mercury, Nickel and Zinc. According to Paper Dragon Recycling, a Michigan recycling company, they state that “if cell phones are not [...]
July 17, 2010
Tags: cell phone recycling, droid x, electronic recycling, free shopping card, iPhone, recycline, verizon Posted in: going green products, going green tips No Comments
Washing Your Car The Eco-friendly Way
One of the worst things you can do to harm the environment is to wash your automobile out on your driveway. All the road grime, gasoline residue, oil, that is washing off the car and the toxic washing products you are using go directly into the sewerage system and right out back into the environment. [...]
July 11, 2010
Tags: car wash, environment, environmentally products, friendly, green automotive products, petroleum distillates Posted in: going green products, going green tips No Comments
Looking For Work?
With the economy tanking these days, more and more people are finding themselves out of a job or with a job on an extremely shaky foundation.  One area of the job market that seems to be doing well is the green sector. As the government dumps money into the green stimulus package, more and more [...]
July 10, 2010
Tags: economy, employment, Going Green, green career, green jobs, jobs Posted in: Going Green, going green products, going green tips One Comment
Going Green With Furniture
That soft comfy couch that many of us spend far too much time lying on can be a hazard to your health in a couple of ways. First off, this generation of people spend far too much time being “couch potatoes”. In the days before television, people spent a whole lot more time outside and [...]
June 17, 2010
Tags: indoor air pollution, indoor air quality, offgassing, VOCs, volatile organic compounts Posted in: Going Green, going green products, going green tips No Comments
Clean With Spaghetti???
The original Spaghetti Scrub is a natural-fiber cleaning scrubber that is tough on your kitchen messes, but gentle on the environment. An eco-friendly product, the Spaghetti Scrub is made with corn cob, a tough abrasive that has incredible cleaning power. Use on grills, metal cookware, kettles, sinks-you’ll find endless uses around the home. The unique [...]
June 10, 2010
Tags: eco-friendly, landfill waste, natural fiber, recycled material, spaghetti scrub Posted in: going green products One Comment
Going Green is All About Caring For Our Planet
Pollution isn’t all about global warming and toxic waste and all the major issues, but more about caring for our environment. The other day while getting out of my car on my way to a Doctor visit, I looked down and saw this pile of cigarette butts lying next to a palm tree. This is [...]
June 3, 2010
Tags: e-cigarettes, electronic cigarettes, environement, green smoke, pollution Posted in: going green products No Comments
Scary Sunscreen Report Published
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) is a non-profit environmental organization that specializes in environmental research and advocacy in the areas of toxic chemicals, agricultural subsidies, public lands, and corporate accountability (according to Wikipedia). They have recently published their  annual Sunscreen Guide, and when you read it, you will be in for a shock. After [...]
May 30, 2010
Tags: annual sunscreen guide, environmental working group, FDA, SPF, sunburn, sunscreen, suntan, ultraviolet rays, UV Posted in: going green products, going green tips 3 Comments
Go Green Jewelery
There are literally thousands of ways to go green and many of them are in areas that we would never even think to go green. Case in point, buying jewelery. You wouldn’t necessarily think of going green when you buy jewelery but a recent news release by the San Diego Jewelry Buyers (SDJB) offers some [...]
May 25, 2010
Tags: fair labor, go green, going green tips, green jewelery, recycling Posted in: Going Green, going green products, going green tips 2 Comments
Save Gas; Save Money With New Green Product
For years there has been a product in use that has proven to improve an engine’s horsepower and fuel economy. But up until now this product has not been available to the general public. All that has changed! A new product called Envirotabs is now available to the general public. This product ist is being [...]
March 30, 2010
Tags: eco-friendly, envirotabs, green products, green technology, harmful emissions, improve fuel economy Posted in: going green products No Comments