 | | | Can You be Green To Go? | | If you're like me and like to hit that snooze button as many times as you can in the morning, you must often need to run out of the house without eating or packing a lunch which leaves you at the mercy of Take-out food f...More |
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 | | | Hyper-miling... Get the Most Out of a Tank | | Hyper-miling is a set of driving techniques and tricks to help get the most mileage out of a tank of gas. Basically, it comes down to getting into good driving habits. An easy one is this: don't let the act of driving ...More |
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 | | | Conservation Vs. Energy-Efficiency | | When we talk about solutions to our energy problems a lot of us use the words 'efficiency' and 'conservation' interchangeably. But let's take a closer look at how collapsing these two distinct words can be dangerous. E...More |
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 | | | Stuff! | | We live in a consumer driven society. We're conditioned to want certain things (cars, clothes, shoes, gizmos) and made to believe that if you don't have these things you're not as good as people who do. The stress on t...More |
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 | | | Green Laundry | | Laundry is such a mundane part of all our lives that, as with other daily tasks, we forget how much energy and resources it requires. Detergents and softeners and harsh bleaches go down your home's drains and eventually...More |
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 | | | Reduce Reuse OR Recycle? | | Ever wonder why the three Rs are listed the way they are? Is it because it's the order that rolls of the tongue best? No a little more thought (or strong coincidence) went into it, the three Rs are listed from best posi...More |
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 | | | Live the Paperless Life | | Trying to reduce your paper consumption? Here's an easy way to make a difference; and if you do your banking online you're on the right track but keep going with it!Most of Canada's major financial institutions will sto...More |
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 | | | Ingredients to Avoid | | Being green gets you green nowadays. So if a company wants to capitalize on the green movement, they slap a ‘green’ logo or slogan on a bottle of shampoo and they’re all set! They can even put a few natural ingredients...More |
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