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From Florida Summit: green tips
153 ways to go green: http://www.bankrate.com/nltrack/news/energy-environment-2007/tips_environmental_home_a1.asp?ec_id=brmint_ns_frugal_20080422&caret=4c
12 ways to go grocery green: http://www.bankrate.com/nltrack/news/energy-environment-2007/tips_environmental_food_a1.asp?ec_id=brmint_ns_frugal_20080422&caret=4g
Look into Keep America Beautiful and Earth911.org for information about recycling and keeping our earth green.

Going Green: All Your Questions Answered
When is the right time to replace an old refrigerator? Is it more environmentally correct to buy your beer in bottles or cans? Is there any oil company that's really "greener" than the others? And how much paper do you actually need to recycle in order to save a whole tree?
Find the answer to these questions and more in the new entertaining, and enormously useful book, Hey Mr. Green: Sierra Magazine’s Answer Guy Tackles Your Toughest Green Living Questions.
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Recycle Cooking Oil in Pasco County. For more information call 727-847-8041, 813-996-7341 or 352-521-4274

Companies which are embracing green technologies [from THE GREEN LIFE 3-25-08]

Green cleaners: check out these 2 sources:
1. http://www.seattle.gov/util/stellent/groups/public/@spu/@csb/documents/webcontent/spu03_001963.pdf.,
2. http://www.metrokc.gov/health/asthma/facts/greencleaning.htm

When Ann DeLaVergne realized that more than 80 billion reply envelopes are mailed in the US each year, she decided to do something about it. After making reusable envelopes from scratch with her sewing machine for two years, she met with the US Postal Service and patented the ecoEnvelope. The envelopes zip closed, eliminate the need for a separate reply envelope, and are manufactured with paper from managed forests and contain up to 100 percent post-consumer waste content. For businesses or for use in your home office, ecoEnvelopes eliminate the need to print, store, handle, insert, track and include a separate reply envelope. [from The Green Life 2-27-08]

Give an old TV a new life [from St. Pete Times, 2-9-08 compiled by Times homes and garden editor Judy Stark from staff and wire reports]: Ms. Starks asks, ...'what can be done with all those older models [of televisions] that still work fine? the answer..."At http://www.mygreenelectronics.org/, the Consumer Electronics Assoc. lists charities, schools and community programs that accept donated televisions. These include Goodwill industries...and Throwplace.com. ...Other takers: Habitat for Humanity, [www.habitat.org: search 'restores'] Online, there's Freecycle [www.freecylce.org] a cyber bulletin board."

We all turn to Consumer Reports when we are thinking about purchasing a new car or vacuum cleaner, but did you know that they have published a "Complete Guide to Reducing Energy Costs"? Consumer Reports has made an excerpt from the report available on their site, called 20 Free Ways to Save Energy, which include using a crockpot, getting rid of that roof rack, and more! You can read the report here.

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