Green Your Jeans

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Ok, so I didn’t mean to literally run out and buy green colored  jeans, despite their extreme trendiness at this particular point in time. What I meant is to choose green and eco-friendly jeans by way of smart shopping or better yet, recycling and swapping! Did you know that it takes 2000 gallons of water [...]

Green Your Kitchen

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Written by Colleen Donnelly for Your Daily Thread When it comes to green savvy, your kitchen space is totally dialed in. You are, after all, a die-hard Your Daily Thread reader. From upgrading to energy efficient appliances to ditching plastic for glass and abandoning toxic chemicals for natural cleaners, you have the basics down pat. [...]

Trade In Your Coffee Cups

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Written by Eva Goicochea for Your Daily Thread This paper cup: Ah yes, you know it well. Your old pal that you get your favorite latte in. Not only is it ending up in landfills at the rate of billions (yes, billions!) per year, it’s also destined to stay in the dump rather than go [...]

Green Holiday – Wrapping Up the Season

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Do you box up your holiday decorations the day after Christmas or hold onto the holiday spirit until the first sign of spring? Either way,packing up the holiday decor is a not a welcomed activity but here are a few eco and organizing tips that will help make the season brighter (and easier) next year! [...]

ReGreet Eco Holiday Card Kit Giveaway! – Closed

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Nothing less green than buying greeting cards that almost always wind up in the trash. It wastes time, money and resources but is a tradition we have become quite accustomed to. Well ReGreet has come up with a fabulous way to get more bang from your buck when it comes to greeting cards by offering [...]

Don’t Forget Mother Earth This Thanksgiving

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While we gather around the Thanksgiving table with family and friends, it isn’t Thanksgiving unless we acknowledge what the holiday really means. Giving thanks for what we have. And giving thanks isn’t just a statement, it is also an action. Thankfulness and respect go hand in hand but they can be so much more then [...]

How To Get Organized This Fall

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Written by Beth Zeigler for Your Daily Thread Beth Zeigler of Bneato helps us reclaim our space while staying true to the eco-savvy lifestyle we love. I fondly remember going into my mother’s jewelry box and organizing like with like when I was a kid. It pleased me to no end to match long lost [...]

Eco Crafts: Pretty Plastic Bottle Flowers

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My friends over at Your Daily Thread have come up with a cute, fun and simple way to make use of otherwise useless, empty plastic bottles. Great for kids nd families to do together to promote recycling and reusing materials as well as having promoting the flow of those creative juices!