| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Aug 15, 2008 at 12:56 pm by Mike Sowden Eco Links to Green Your Weekend Just before you go off and enjoy your hard-earned weekend, we'd like to tell you about these... .jpg){kind=small} Lifehacker is keen for us to save a little money by powering down our computers - and they recommend using Edison (free, 45mb) or Local Cooling (free, 4mb) to do it.As Greenthinkers reports, the internet show EPIC FU is going plastic free for a week. (They should check out Envirowoman's blog. She did it for over a year!)If we're really going to slim down our possessions, we need to learn the art of gently letting go. Blog Nosh has a few thoughts they'd like to share with us.More techno-cleverness. Are you the proud owner of an iPhone or other brand of smartphone? You may want to try out Fuelly, a cunning new way of keeping track of your mileage. (Groovy Green is giving it a run round the block).Hats in the air for ...Read MoreRelated Posts ↓ |
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| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Jul 29, 2008 at 5:00 am by Emily Navas New Urbanism and the Green Heart of Suburbia Now that my city, San Francisco, has been given one of the highest walkability rates in the nation - surpassing NY and Boston - I am thrilled to know that the rise in fuel costs and deepening energy crisis has spurred more people onto the streets into walking or ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Jul 15, 2008 at 5:00 am by Sara Ost How to Green Your SUV Stuck with an impossible-to-sell SUV? Getting killed at the pump? Here's how to green that machine. There's a whole lot of information online about which hybrid is the best. But there's not a lot of help for the one in eight Americans who have purchased an ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Jul 14, 2008 at 5:00 am by Luanne Bradley In the Right Camp: How to Get Kids to Go Green We're shelling out the big bucks again for summer camps. It's the price we have to pay to keep our city slickers off the sofa and away from the hypnotic plasma. Among many other attributes, camps can instill a deeper appreciation of the great outdoors. But as a wise person once said, wherever you go, there you are. To mold our children into ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Apr 30, 2008 at 4:36 pm by Kim Derby Hybrids for Hire You separate aluminum, glass and plastic. You bring your own bags to the market and you use non-toxic cleaning products in your home. Recycling has become as much a part of your life as checking your email and going to the gym. Maybe there isn’t a hybrid parked in your garage, but you're all about a hybrid rental when the need arises! ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| LIFESTYLE / ECOSALON HOME Apr 28, 2008 at 11:44 am by Kim Derby Get Your Car Squeaky Green Unfortunately, my hometown of Los Angeles is best known for Hollywood, Malibu, Beverly Hills…and traffic. Most of us own cars out of necessity, because it’s virtually impossible to get around without one. As a result, there’s a car wash on almost every corner and you dare not drive if your car isn't glossy. Just look! We Angelenos ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |
| WELLNESS / ECOSALON HOME Aug 15, 2008 at 10:20 am by Sarah Irani How to Safely Get Rid of Paint, Toxic Cleaning Products and Motor Oil Sorry to burst your bubble, but not even eco-bloggers are eco-perfect. Case in point: the last time I moved I had to deal with a few cans of leftover house paint. It wasn’t worth taking with me so I left those cans in the shed for the next resident to deal with. Not the greatest karma, but at least I didn’t throw the paint in the trash. ...Read More Related Posts ↓ |