Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed of an equal or greater benefit. Napoleon Hill
9 Reasons Why Going Green Will Help You Through the Recession May 2, 2009
Author: Justin R.
Our economy is in a rough patch. You hear about job losses and businesses filing for bankruptcy every day. These are uncertain times, but our nation has seen worse. There’s no reason not to be hopeful for the future. But until that future arrives, here are some tips to help save you money. A lot of people think that going green is a luxury. That’s because the most obvious green upgrades such as hybrid vehicles are very expensive. In actual fact, going green is relatively cheap and the less money you make, the more you’ll notice the benefits.
Transit – Take public transit as much as possible. Cutting down on your car use will save you an unbelievable amount of money. If you must drive, maintain your vehicle well. Keep your tires inflated to the recommended PSI, take unnecessary/heavy objects out of the trunk, and turn off your car if you’re idling for more than 30 seconds. This will save you money and emissions.
Eating In – Make meals from scratch instead of eating out. Avoid prepackaged meals if possible as well. Starting from scratch is always the cheapest option and teaching your kids how to cook and bake is an excellent life-long skill. And of course it’s a lot healthier!
Make Repairs – Don’t throw away something that costs $100 dollars when you could get it fixed for $20. There’s a repair shop for just about anything you can imagine, just look online or in the phone book. Repairing things is a lot greener than buying a new one because it uses fewer resources and produces less waste. You’ll also save tons of money (and maybe even make some money) if you learn how to fix things yourself.
Borrowing/Buying Used – Don’t have a 5/8th socket wrench? Don’t buy another 50 piece set. Ask your friends and family if you can borrow their tools before buying your own. If you really need to make a major purchase, search the classifieds (online and in the newspaper) first for second hand purchases.
Water Use – Don’t buy bottled water. Instead, use refillable bottles and bottle your own filtered water. This will reduce waste significantly. You can put a filter on your tap, or use a refillable filter for your fridge. There is an initial investment, but if you’re drinking several bottles of water a day, you will see significant savings in the long run.
Energy-Efficiency – Make small changes around your home like switching all your lights to CFL bulbs, turning off lights when they’re not necessary, unplugging electronics when they’re not in use, and insulating windows and doors. The more you do, the more you will save. Theses small changes can really add up!
Recycle – Don’t throw it in out if you can put it to use. You can reuse almost anything from empty soda bottles to paper bags. Make Your Own – Why buy new when you can make your own? Building your own things is usually drastically cheaper. For example, you can make your own shampoo, soap, furniture, or just about anything else!
Alternative Energy – Install your own solar panels or windmills and gain Independence from the power company. But of course you’ll want to make your own and save money. I’ve reviewed a few how-to guides on building your own solar panels and windmills.
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Earth Day 2009 April 22, 2009
Helping Kids Care For the Earth – Ideas For Earth Day and Beyond
By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Jamie_Jefferson]Jamie Jefferson
Earth Day is April 22, and while it’s important to get involved on this day, there are things we can do as families that will make a huge impact throughout the year.
It starts with helping our kids to celebrate the world in which we live, and it continues with helping them to love it so much that they want to do everything they can to help protect it. Here are six ideas to help your kids celebrate and care for our earth:
1. Get out and enjoy it. Researchers are now saying that simply getting kids outside in nature may be the most effective way to raise their awareness of environmental issues. Suddenly, these problems that they hear about on the news and in the classroom have a real impact on their daily lives. They see firsthand how a forest or a beach or a tidepool or a meadow is teeming with life, with ecological relationships that are interdependent, delicate and complex.
To encourage your kids to get out there and enjoy the natural world, you may have to purposefully inject some extra excitement in the idea, but just at first. Take your dog (or a friend’s dog) for a walk in the woods. A dog’s love for nature, and subsequent enjoyment of it, is infectious. Create a list of things to find and make your adventure into the outdoors into a scavenger hunt.
If possible, and if your kids are old enough to be by themselves out there, find a safe place for them to play in a natural environment. Allow them to go there to get away, to sit and think or to talk with their friends. Make a point to get the kids out in nature every day. Better yet, go with them.
2. Watch “An Inconvenient Truth” as a family for inspiration. Invite some of your children’s friends over to watch it with their parents and talk about some initiatives that you can each commit to or some larger projects that you can work on as a neighborhood or community.
3. Help your kids learn about endangered animals. Together, look into organizations that help endangered animals and see how you can get involved.
4. Reduce and re-use, then recycle. Lots of kids get excited about recycling. Fewer are into reducing or re-using. Model to your children a healthy pattern of consumption. Talk frequently about the many benefits (which go way beyond environmental) of living a simple life and of being wary of a lifestyle of mass consumerism. As kids spend more time outside and less time at the mall or watching television advertisements, this shift may feel increasingly more natural to them.
5. Teach your kids about potentially harmful chemicals and how they can be everywhere in our world: in the foods we eat, in the supplies we use to clean the house, in our paint, in our cosmetics, in our lawn care products. Turn the search for these things into a game and allow your kids to be detectives, learning about and seeking out these harmful chemicals and then finding natural alternatives.
6. The next time you take the kids to the grocery store, see how you can minimize the amount of packaging that you purchase. We have been known to purposefully not purchase an item because of the manufacturer’s use of wasteful packaging. It won’t take long for the kids to realize that the best item in the store for minimal packaging: raw fruits and vegetables.
In our family, the more we can make these life changes into a game, the more apt the kids are to follow suit. Help your kids to understand how one person really can make a difference (especially when that person is part of a committed family or group) and review often the personal impact that you all have made.
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Earth Hour Clocks Global Success April 1, 2009
Earth Hour Clocks Global Success
By Roy Mark
2009-03-30
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The worldwide event to call attention to climate change puts up its strongest numbers in the three-year history of Earth Hour. From the remote Chatham Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean to Sydney’s Opera House to the Eiffel Tower to the Empire State Building to Seattle’s Space Needle, lights dimmed for 1 hour in a symbolic call to change the Kyoto Protocol.
It began over the remote Chatham Islands in the southern Pacific Ocean and from there—time zone by time zone—Earth Hour 2009 marched around the globe March 28, with hundreds of cities and communities and millions of individuals dimming their lights to call attention to climate change. In all, nearly 1,000 global landmarks went dark for an hour, including New York’s Empire State Building, Paris’ Eiffel Tower, the dome of St. Peters in the Vatican and the Christ the Redeemer statue on Mount Corcovado overlooking the city of Rio de Janeiro.
While Earth Hour sponsor World Wildlife Foundation did not have all the data yet, it predicted that participation in the third annual event exceeded 2008, when some 53 million people in 371 cities in 35 countries participated. The 2007 inaugural Earth Hour was limited to Sydney, Australia.
WWF officials called Earth Hour, “The world’s first-ever global vote about the future of our planet.” Yvo de Boer, the United Nations’ top climate change official, said Earth Hour marked a global momentum to seek climate change mandates in the Kyoto Protocol, including controlling heat emissions. World leaders are scheduled to meet in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December to hammer out more climate change controls.
“The true power of Earth Hour can be seen in the tremendous opportunity for individuals, communities, businesses and governments around the world to unite for a common purpose, against a common threat which affects us all,” said U.S. WWF President and CEO Carter Roberts. “As the world witnessed Saturday night, the simple action of turning off lights can inspire people around the world to take action and to make a serious long-term commitment to living more sustainable lives.”
City after city in the United States dimmed their lights as Earth Hour moved across the continent. Joining the Empire State Building in New York was the iconic Chrysler Building. Even some neon signs in New York’s Times Square and Broadway’s theater dimmed their lights. Across the river in New Jersey, the lights went down for an hour at Thomas Edison’s laboratory in West Orange.
In Washington, where climate change advocates have high hopes for the Obama administration’s position on climate change, the Capitol Dome darkened as organizers held a candle-light procession.
On and on it went, with Chicago; Dallas; Houston; Las Vegas; Miami, Fla.; Nashville, Tenn.; Salt Lake City, St. Louis; and Tucson, Ariz., all marking Earth Hour. On the West Coast, the Space Needle in Seattle and the Santa Monica Pier & Ferris Wheel and Nokia Plaza in Los Angeles dimmed their lights.
Earlier, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon had described WWF’s Earth Hour as “the largest demonstration of public concern about climate change ever attempted.”
“Earth Hour is a way for the citizens of the world to send a clear message they want action on climate change,” said UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. “[Earth Hour is] the largest demonstration of public concern about climate change ever attempted.”
BlackBerry manufacturer Research In Motion launched a special Website, accessible only through certain BlackBerry devices, supporting Earth Hour. Owners of the BlackBerry Bold, Storm, Curve, Curve 8900, Curve 8800 and Pearl smartphones were able to access the site, which allowed users to access the latest news and videos about Earth Hour.
Pictures of Earth Hour around the Globe.
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Earth Hour 2009 March 19, 2009
Originally begun in Sidney, Australia two years ago, Earth Hour was essentially a message bringing awareness to climate change. What it actually accomplished was prctically phenomenal. In March 2007, 2.2 million people and businesses alike turned out the lights for a complete hour in order to bring the message of climate change. It made a statement of how people coming to gether for a single purpose can actually make a change. Moreover, this was only the beginning, the following year Earth Hour went global with more than 400 cities participating in the event, this was a sum of possibly 50 million people and thousands of businesses alike taking part in the message to reduce climate change.
This year, more than 1,800 cities have already signed up in 74 countries including here in the US, Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Nashville are all set to participate on March 28, 2009 to turn out their lights (8-9pm). If you want to participate you may log on to: <a href=”http://www.earthhourUS.org” and see how you can help.
One may say, what exactly will an hour do? In terms of reducing emissions maybe the result would be miniminal. However, it is the underlying message that this simple act gives that will make the diffrence. Global warming and climate change are not only an environmental problem but also a political issue as well. What Earth Hour does (and remember , that this has gone global now) then is demonstrate that people care enough about the issue to see changes in the political structure. Given the chain effect, that politicians need the peoples’vote to make it happpen, then this symbolic act or statement will eventually force goverments to act on restricting and capping emissions throughout. When this happens globally, then we will see results; and therefore Earth Hour could be considered a success. Furtheremore, the more we participate, the more of a statement this becomes. So do your part on 3/28!!!
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50 Things You Can Do To Stop Global Warming March 13, 2009
A lot of media attention has been given lately to the issue of global warming. Many sources say and corroborate that global warming is a dramatically urgent and serious problem. Consequently, there has been an increasing awareness to this issue that people are beginning to implement lifestyle modifications in order to make a change. We don’t need to wait for the government to find a solution to this problem: each individual can make an important contribution by adopting a more responsible lifestyle; starting from little, everyday things.
Here is a list of 50 simple things that everyone can do in order to reduce and fight global warming. Some of these ideas are at no cost, others require a little effort or investment but can save you money in the long run and most importantly, make a positive impact on the environment.
1.Replace a regular incandescent light bulb with a compact fluorescent light bulb (cfl). CFLs use 60% less energy than a regular bulb. This simple switch will save about 300 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.We recommend you purchase your CFL bulbs at 1000bulbs.com, they have great deals on both screw-in and plug-in light bulbs.
2.Install a programmable thermostat. Programmable thermostats will automatically lower the heat or air conditioning at night and raise them again in the morning. They can save you $100 a year on your energy bill.
3.Move your thermostat down 2° in winter and up 2° in summer. Almost half of the energy we use in our homes goes to heating and cooling. You could save about 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple adjustment.
4.Clean or replace filters on your furnace and air conditioner. Cleaning a dirty air filter can save 350 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.
5.Choose energy efficient appliances when making new purchases. Look for the Energy Star label on new appliances to choose the most energy efficient products available.
6.Do not leave appliances on standby. Use the “on/off” function on the machine itself. A TV set that’s switched on for 3 hours a day (the average time Europeans spend watching TV) and in standby mode during the remaining 21 hours uses about 40% of its energy in standby mode.
7.Wrap your water heater in an insulation blanket. You’ll save 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year with this simple action. You can save another 550 pounds per year by setting the thermostat no higher than 50°C.
8.Move your fridge and freezer. Placing them next to the cooker or boiler consumes much more energy than if they were standing on their own. For example, if you put them in a hot cellar room where the room temperature is 30-35ºC, energy use is almost double and causes an extra 160kg of CO2 emissions for fridges per year and 320kg for freezers.
9.Defrost old fridges and freezers regularly. Even better is to replace them with newer models, which all have automatic defrost cycles and are generally up to two times more energy-efficient than their predecessors.
10.Don’t let heat escape from your house over a long period. When airing your house, open the windows for only a few minutes. If you leave a small opening all day long, the energy needed to keep it warm inside during six cold months (10ºC or less outside temperature) would result in almost 1 ton of CO2 emissions.
11.Replace your old single-glazed windows with double-glazing. This requires a bit of upfront investment, but will halve the energy lost through windows and pay off in the long term. If you go for the best the market has to offer (wooden-framed double-glazed units with low-emission glass and filled with argon gas), you can even save more than 70% of the energy lost.
12.Get a home energy audit. Many utilities offer free home energy audits to find where your home is poorly insulated or energy inefficient. You can save up to 30% off your energy bill and 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year. Energy Star can help you find an energy specialist.
13.Cover your pots while cooking. Doing so can save a lot of the energy needed for preparing the dish. Even better are pressure cookers and steamers: they can save around 70%!
14.Use the washing machine or dishwasher only when they are full. If you need to use it when it is half full, then use the half-load or economy setting. There is also no need to set the temperatures high. Nowadays detergents are so efficient that they get your clothes and dishes clean at low temperatures.
15.Take a shower instead of a bath. A shower takes up to four times less energy than a bath. To maximize the energy saving, avoid power showers and use low-flow showerheads, which are cheap and provide the same comfort.
16. Use less hot water. It takes a lot of energy to heat water. You can use less hot water by installing a low flow showerhead (350 pounds of carbon dioxide saved per year) and washing your clothes in cold or warm water (500 pounds saved per year) instead of hot.
17.Use a clothesline instead of a dryer whenever possible. You can save 700 pounds of carbon dioxide when you air dry your clothes for 6 months out of the year.
18.Insulate and weatherize your home. Properly insulating your walls and ceilings can save 25% of your home heating bill and 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year. Caulking and weather-stripping can save another 1,700 pounds per year. Energy Efficient has more information on how to better insulate your home.
19.Be sure you’re recycling at home. You can save 2,400 pounds of carbon dioxide a year by recycling half of the waste your household generates.
20.Recycle your organic waste. Around 3% of the greenhouse gas emissions through the methane is released by decomposing bio-degradable waste. By recycling organic waste or composting it if you have a garden, you can help eliminate this problem! Just make sure that you compost it properly, so it decomposes with sufficient oxygen, otherwise your compost will cause methane emissions and smell foul.
21.Buy intelligently. One bottle of 1.5l requires less energy and produces less waste than three bottles of 0.5l. As well, buy recycled paper products: it takes less 70 to 90% less energy to make recycled paper and it prevents the loss of forests worldwide.
22.Choose products that come with little packaging and buy refills when you can. You will also cut down on waste production and energy use… another help against global warming.
23.Reuse your shopping bag. When shopping, it saves energy and waste to use a reusable bag instead of accepting a disposable one in each shop. Waste not only discharges CO2 and methane into the atmosphere, it can also pollute the air, groundwater and soil.
24.Reduce waste. Most products we buy cause greenhouse gas emissions in one or another way, e.g. during production and distribution. By taking your lunch in a reusable lunch box instead of a disposable one, you save the energy needed to produce to produce more of them.
25.Plant a tree. A single tree will absorb one ton of carbon dioxide over its lifetime. Shade provided by trees can also reduce your air conditioning bill by 10 to 15%. The Arbor Day Foundation has information on planting and provides trees you can plant with membership.
26.Switch to green power. In many areas, you can switch to energy generated by clean, renewable sources such as wind and solar. In some of these, you can even get refunds by the government if you choose to switch to a clean energy producer, and you can also earn money by selling the energy you produce and don’t use for yourself.
27.Buy locally grown and produced foods. The average meal in the United States travels 1,200 miles from the farm to your plate. Buying locally will save fuel and keep money in your community.
28.Buy fresh foods instead of frozen. Frozen food uses 10 times more energy to produce.
29.Seek out and support local farmers markets. They reduce the amount of energy required to grow and transport the food to you by one fifth. Seek farmer’s markets in your area.
30.Buy organic foods as much as possible. Organic soils capture and store carbon dioxide at much higher levels than soils from conventional farms. If we grew all of our corn and soybeans organically, we’d remove 580 billion pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere!
31.Eat less meat. Livestock production requires enormous amounts of energy. We put far more energy into animals per unit of food than we do for any plant crop. The main reason is that cattle consume 16 times as much grain as they produce as meat, so right there we have 16 times as much energy just to grow those crops, just so we can waste them on livestock. Plus, methane is the second most significant greenhouse gas and cows are one of the greatest methane emitters. Their grassy diet and multiple stomachs cause them to produce methane, which they exhale with every breath.
32.Reduce the number of miles you drive by walking, biking, carpooling or taking mass transit wherever possible . Avoiding just 10 miles of driving every week would eliminate about 500 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions a year! Look for transit options in your area.
33.Start a carpool with your coworkers or classmates. Sharing a ride with someone just 2 days a week will reduce your carbon dioxide emissions by 1,590 pounds a year. eRideShare.com runs a free service connecting north American commuters and travelers.
34.Don’t leave an empty roof rack on your car. This can increase fuel consumption and CO2 emissions by up to 10% due to wind resistance and the extra weight – removing it is a better idea.
35.Keep your car tuned up. Regular maintenance helps improve fuel efficiency and reduces emissions. When just 1% of car owners properly maintain their cars, nearly a billion pounds of carbon dioxide are kept out of the atmosphere.
36.Drive carefully and do not waste fuel. You can reduce CO2 emissions by readjusting your driving style. Choose proper gears, do not abuse the gas pedal, use the engine brake instead of the pedal brake whenever possible turn off your engine when your vehicle is motionless for more than one minute. By readjusting your driving style you can save money on both fuel and car maintenance.
37.Check your tires weekly to make sure they’re properly inflated. Proper tire inflation can improve gas mileage by more than 3%. Since every gallon of gasoline saved keeps 20 pounds of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere, every increase in fuel efficiency makes a difference!
38.When it is time for a new car, choose a more fuel efficient vehicle. You can save 3,000 pounds of carbon dioxide every year if your new car gets only 3 miles per gallon more than your current one. You can get up to 60 miles per gallon with a hybrid! You can find information on fuel efficiency on FuelEconomy and on GreenCars websites.
39.Try car sharing. Need a car but don’t want to buy one? Community car sharing organizations provide access to a car and your membership fee covers gas, maintenance and insurance. Many companies – such as Flexcar – offer low emission or hybrid cars too! Also, see ZipCar.
40.Try telecommuting. Telecommuting can help you drastically reduce the number of miles you drive every week. For more information, check out the Telework Coalition.
41.Fly less. Air travel produces large amounts of emissions so reducing how much you fly by even one or two trips a year can reduce your emissions significantly. You can also offset your air travel carbon emissions by investing renewable energy projects.
42.Encourage your school or business to reduce emissions. You can extend your positive influence on global warming well beyond your home by actively encouraging other to take action.
43.Join the virtual march. The Stop Global Warming Virtual March is a non-political effort to bring people concerned about global warming together in one place. Add your voice to the hundreds of thousands of other people urging action on this issue.
44.Encourage the switch to renewable energy. Successfully combating global warming requires a national transition to renewable energy sources such as solar, wind and biomass. These technologies are ready to be used more often but there are regulatory barriers impeding them. Take action to break down those barriers with Vote Solar.
45.Protect and conserve forest worldwide. Forests play a critical role in global warming: they store carbon. When forests are burned or cut down, their stored carbon is release into the atmosphere – deforestation now accounts for about 20% of carbon dioxide emissions each year. Conservation International has more information on saving forests from global warming.
46.Consider the impact of your investments. If you invest your money, you should consider the impact that your investments and savings will have on global warming. Check out SocialInvest and Ceres to can learn more about how to ensure your money is being invested in companies, products and projects that address issues related to climate change.
47.Make your city cool. Cities and states around the country have taken action to stop global warming by passing innovative transportation and energy saving legislation. If you’re in the U.S., join the cool cities list.
48.Tell Congress to act.
49.Make sure your voice is heard! Americans must have a stronger commitment from their government in order to stop global warming and implement solutions. Such a commitment won’t come without a dramatic increase in citizen lobbying for new laws . Get the facts about your candidates at Project Vote Smart and The League of Conservation Voters. Make sure your voice is heard by voting!
50.Share this list! http://globalwarming-facts.info/50-tips.htm Send this page via e-mail to your friends! Spread this list worldwide and help people do their part: the more people you will manage to enlighten, the greater YOUR help will be (but please take action on first person too)!
Economies of Scale March 6, 2009
It is a n observation of mine, not that is written anywhere, but due to the economic situation that we are facing at the moment, there will be a major shift in the way people live their lives and the choices they make. We are already seeing this, surely out of pure necessity but because of this most of us are scaling back and just simply going back to basics. What does this have to do with a greener lifestyles? Everything. Going green, at least to me, is quite simply going back to basics . Figuring out then , what is truly a need and what is an indulgence and excess and what we can live without. The true green movement is basically that how exactly to do more with less and finding out that less is more by reducing waste (excess) and clutter.
Although the recent buzz on going green largely emphasizes on consumption and marketing, it really does not emphasize on the values of going green. Well, I believe that eventually, as this crisis progresses, there will be a true necessity for going green and that is not by buying organics either but by eventually choosing and establishing a simpler lifestyle. It is unfortunate though, that although many people are hurting financially, that it would take such a extreme to finally realize what is important.
The Stimulus Package and Green Jobs February 26, 2009
When the stimulus package was approved a couple of weeks ago, the main argument for the stimulus was to create jobs ans stimulate the economy.. However, of the 750 billion that was approved, according to different sources the sum would be between 70-90 billion allocated to green projects. Among these , the main one is on renewable energy and wind power. According to many different sources, the amount of jobs that this will actually produce vary and also in what sector. It is estimated that three million jobs will be created as a result of the stimulus plan but what has critics debating about this plan where are the jobs being created. In other words, since a lot of the plan is refitting, and weathering old buildings , most of the job creation will be localized in construction. Also, given that part of the plan will also include rebuilding and restructuring old highways that would also mean that most of it would be centered there as well. These jobs usually are not highly paid to as compared to the “green jobs” that they had initially sold the projecct on. Actually, as one crtic said, most of these green jobs are truly blue collar with the shift and emphasis that they are ultimately for environmental causes. Nonetheless, with these primary projects already set to begin albeit all crtics and supporters, we will see a change somewhat. On the other hand, what most of these “green jobs” are supoosed to do in many ways, is to replace the manufacturing jobs that were outsourced . This stimulus job creation then, with the jobs that are supposed to be created, will be in part unable to be outsourced. Given that most of it is for refitting, weathering, and building for obvious reasons will be unable to be outsourced to other countries. This, has many supporters applauding the measure of the plan.
Where to Recycle the Old Analog TV February 13, 2009
When the switch occurs on June 12 to digital TV, the old analog TV will be rendered useless unless you buy the converter box or replace your set . Theefore, although the deadline was extended from February 17, there are many people trying to replace their old sets and the problem is of how to dispose of them properly.The worst thing that you can do is to dump it it the dumpster. Because these old TVs have a sheild of lead around to prtect from radiation, this lead spilled in a landfill could leach into the environment. The results of lead poisoning have been already well documented, so no need to mention here.
For this reason, there are many organizations that have established recycling centers for these old sets. For example, the Telecommunications Industry Association’s website http://www.eiae.org allows you to click on your state and find out the centers where you can recylcle your set.
Another organization is Earcth911.com website http://earth911.com/electronics, again point to the browser and type in your zip code and you will find the centers there too.
Consumers Electronic Association or MyGreen Electronics.org website:http://www.mygreenelectronics.org again allows you to locate centers there too.
Finally, don’t forget the Goodwill stores, they will also accept and recycle your set. Their website: http://goodwill.org
There you have it four sources of information and four diffrent places that will accept your donated sets. If not, you can always apply for the converter box at : www.dtv.gov.
Green is In Indeed!! February 1, 2009
I attended a Green Conference this morning, and not only was I disappointed at the presentation, it seemed that no one there had researched or practiced their speeches, it truly became a promotional venue for the products that they had to sell. Why I write this post here, because it actually corroborated what I had originally written in this blog. Green has become a very big trend and now a very big marketing trend as well, so it did bother me to go today to what I thought would be something positive and reinforcing on now the new ideal of going green, rather it became a session of pure propaganda.
Disappointing to the end!
