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Weekly Green Tips Every Friday from Pinellas County Utilities: Help the environment (and save money)!

Daily Green Tips from Sierra Club's THE GREEN LIFE

Sustainability Tips from City of Dunedin

Recycle The A to Z Guide for Recycling & Disposal for Pinellas County Find environmentally-friendly ways to "get rid of" over 250 items in this handy guide

THE GREEN PENNY AND PLASTIC SAVER-----TIPS
Sierra Club is seeking your ideas on how to save money and the use of plastics. Please send the ideas Joyce @ jellen1943@yahoo. com.

GARDENING NEWS AND INFORMATION

It's in Our Nature: Eco-friendly products, services and resources.

7 WAYS TO HEAVEN on EARTH DAY [Shouldn't every day be a celebration of earth?]

"How Green is My... [seafood, laundry, bike, pc and more...find out how well your are doing!]

Dunedin Recycles: Would you like to know if a local business or condo association is working as hard as you to protect the environment? You might be wondering if the bakery next door or the apartment complex down the street is working as hard as you to protect the environment. To help increase awareness and maybe even generate some healthy competition, the City of Dunedin has created a comprehensive list of all the businesses, schools, and multi-family dwellings that are currently recycling a portion of their solid waste. Read more about how Dunedin does it and how you can help too! Visit the Who’s Recycling in Dunedin list to find out. Let them know you appreciate their efforts.

Cheapskates Unite! Learn more about pinching pennies and using fewer natural resources in your home.Visit Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory's exhaustive Home Energy Saver. And don’t miss Sierra magazine senior editor Paul Rauber's "Frugal Environmentalism: Saving the earth on the cheap." From Sierra Club Insider Jan. 27, 2009

Save Some Green by Saving Energy

Do you know where your recycling collection site is? For the answer,
check out http://www.pinellascounty.org/utilities/recycle.htm or call 464-7500

Tips to reduce, reuse and recycle your holiday trash -

Get cash for recycling your cell phones

Giving Thanks for Being Green, 17 Nov 2008, By James Stevenson, Extension Specialist, Pinellas County Extension

How Green is your cuisine? Test your green-cooking skills here Sierra Club Insider Nov. 11, 2008
Want to start or join a carpool but don't know how. Check out Zimride,

More simple, practical, affordable solutions to save electricity, save money and make a difference

How Green is Your Bathroom? Click here to find out.

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.

Recycle Your Phone Books!

Opt out of receiving all those pesky catalogs

Locate your local chapter of friendly free recyclers: http://www.freecycle

Learn about Sustainability and get some Tips

Fly or Drive: Which One's Greener? Take our "How Green Is My Getaway?" quiz -- you might be surprised.

Is your next job 'GREEN?' Green Jobs Report 4.2 million new 'green' jobs possible.MORE

Recycle Cooking Oil in Pinellas County: Largo has a drop-off recycling container at its Starkey Rd. Recycling Center located at 1551 Starkey Rd.

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.

Archived articles

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.
If you're looking for an Earth Day gift for a green friend -- or for someone who you wish you could convince to go green -- check out our special offer where you can order the book for the The Sierra Club Supporter Discount Price .