Green Options

These earrings, made from recycled bottle caps, are cute and give you a chance to tell others about the cause. Says the artist:

My designs hope to spread positive messages not only in the image design, but with the interaction you will have with others when you wear them. More importantly, they are a small donation to Mother Earth by helping conserve her resources.

You can find tons of designs on [...]

I came across The Weld House today, and love the concept - new furniture made from reclaimed sheet metal. Joel Hester’s studio makes furniture from 20+ year-old cars, and the products are beautiful.
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Cool. He’s located in Texas, and for handmade piece of art, the prices are actually quite resonable. Check out the website for more information.

Larry Page, co-founder of searh engine giant Google is planning an environmentally-friendly mansion, according to reports.

Page’s green-certified home should be 6,000 square feet, hardly modest for most folks, but only a bit over half the size that he could build on the lot, according to Palo Alto Online, the website for Palo Alto Weekly, which uncovered the plans.

The home will also reportedly have solar panals, “paving that lets the rain [...]

Near the southern end of the Okinawa chain of islands, you’ll find Japan’s largest coral reef - and it is dying. Reports shows that up to 90 percent of the coral may already be gone, so scientists are now testing “transplant” methods in the Sekisei Lagoon Reef to hopefully save the country’s other coral reefs.

From the NY Times:

“We have been replanting forests

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This new iPhone App actually makes a ton of sense. Instead of having to print out coupons or clip them from mailers, you can just get the store clear to scan your iPhone. Check out how it works:

“We know that paper coupons will not be completely replaced, but providing consumers and retailers with an outlet for mobile coupons is a positive start towards reducing the waste created by the mountains of mail we all receive,” said Luke [...]

Love Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth? It’s about to get a sequel, which will give readers an update on the climate crisis.
From Reuters:

Nobel Peace Prize winner and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore will publish a follow-up to his global warming awareness bestseller “An Inconvenient Truth” on November 3. The book will be called “Our Choice” and will describe solutions to global warming, the

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Starting with the release of Paul Blart: Mall Cop on May 19, Sony’s standard-def, single-disk DVD releases will be greener than ever before.

According to reports, the DVD cases will be made with 20% less plastic, and the paper will be 30% post-consumer recycled content. They’re also doing away with any cardboard outer sleeves. From Green Biz:

By switching to the lower-impact packaging, Sony Pictures expects to reduce its annual carbon emissions

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A California woman has been accused of importing guitar picks, which wouldn’t be a big deal - if they weren’t made from endangered turtle shells.
Qing Song, 54, of Santa Rose allegedly imported picks that were made of the raw shells of Hawksbill sea turtles. Although many musicians prefer shell picks over plastic picks, trading or selling anything made from an endangered species is illegal without a permit for specific approved [...]

Organic bedding is better for the earth and you health. If your local home store doesn’t carry organic sheets in the colors you want, check out these seven online sources:

1. Green Home Environmental Store: Sheets start at just $26, and you can also find green duvets, covers, mattress, and beds.

2. Heart of Vermont: They have sateen, flannel, percale, and chambray sheets, as well as organic matress pads and other [...]

Donating your old shoes may seem gross, but Soles4Souls gives consumers a non-smelly option.
This is about more than recycling - it is also about safety and health. When someone in a developing country doesn’t have shoes, they could step step on something that causes infection, and even death. According to AboutMyPlanet,

There are plenty of people in Canada and the United States who need shoes, and they provide those shoes. In

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