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Green Boot Camp: Week Two–Setting Up an At-Home Recycling Center

Green Boot Camp: Week Two–The 411 on Recycling Plastic, Metal and Glass

As I was collecting up boxes yesterday, on Boxing Day, I got to thinking about the origins of this British holiday. For years I thought that British Commonwealth countries referred to this December 26th holiday because of all of the residual boxes from Christmas the day before. But I’ve come to learn that the holiday [...]

Green Boot Camp: Week Two–Recycling Plastic, Cans and Glass, Oh My

Yesterday, my mother and I went to the supermarket to pick up supplies for Christmas dinner. As usual I grabbed my reusable shopping bags, and off we went. We had many predictable items on the list–salad basics, dessert ideas and milk–so I expected it would be an easy, in-and-out shopping experience. Boy, was I wrong. [...]

Green Boot Camp: Week One–The 411 on Paper Recycling

I don’t live on the West Coast, but I completely support the towns and counties in and around Los Angeles that have declared today, December 20th, as Shop-without-a-Bag Day. They’re encouraging residents doing any last-minute Christmas shopping to bring a reusable bag with them to the store today in hopes that folks will get into [...]

One of the easiest ways to make paper recycling become second nature is to have supplies on hand and routines in place as they relate to paper disposal. This way when you go to get rid of any paper, it will end up in the recycling and not in the trash. Here’s how I’ve managed [...]

Welcome to Green Boot Camp, a 52-week program to help fine-tune or change your habits so that you can live a greener life. As I’d posted a few days ago, each week during Green Boot Camp I’m going to be focusing on a different “green” habit. Why one habit a week? I figure that if [...]

If your holiday, present-opening days are a lot like mine, then along with the wrapped presents, the holiday music, and your family and friends you probably have a couple of garbage bags lying in wait for cleaning up afterwards. Now think about all of the families that will be opening presents in December and filling [...]