Battle of the Blogs - Round 4
A new day, a new year and one impressive battle. The first week of 2008 yields fierce competition among GO Journals. Your new gym membership may never be used this year but you can guarantee a greener lifestyle here at GO. Learn tips on how to make your business and life more eco-friendly in 2008. Happy New Year!
9 “Green” New Years Resolutions You Can Actually Do! - by Nicole67
Does going green seem like a monumental task? No worries, Nicole, shares easy ways to adopt a more eco-friendly lifestyle in the new year that won’t cramp your lifestyle. Who knows, maybe these baby steps will give you the confidence to tackle greater green challenges.
The following list contains small ways you can make a difference without greatly impacting your life-style. In most cases, little or no money is necessary to follow these suggestions.
1) Take Your Bags back to the Store
While you may not be the type of person to carry and use cloth bags while shopping, simply resolve to return the old plastic bags to the recyclable center located at your local grocery market or ask for paper.
2) Gas up When it’s Coolest
Fill your tank when adding gas and try to arrange to get gas early in the morning or after the sun sets. This will help minimize the vapors that are released.
Green Your Retail Business Today with 5 Easy Tips - by Ecowriter
Learn how to make your business run more efficiently and eco-friendly in 2008 with Ecowriter’s 5 green tips.
If your post-holiday cheer and spending has put you in a slump about how to jumpstart your New Year’s resolution to make your business run more efficient and tree-friendly for less (and who doesn’t?), Ilana DeBare from the San Francisco Chronicle has the solution. The Chronicle green business reporter provides a few tips to increase your retail business efficiency in the long-term and “walk” your sustainability talk in 2008.
1. Decrease paper waste by using two-sided copying and keeping a stack of used paper by the printer for rough drafts. Reduce the size of printed documents so that, for instance, two pages of typing can fit on one page of paper.
The TEN Project - by Tenproject
Want to be inspired this year? Learn about The TEN Project and how the global race towards sustainability lays in the hands of the world’s ten-year-olds.
THE PROJECT’S AIM
To distribute a game in 2010 to every single ten-year-old living in the ten most influential mega-cities of the future, to inspire them to create a ten-year plan for redesigning their world into one that will be sustainable and worth inheriting in 2020.
THE GAME’S AIM
As the game Monopoly prepared previous generations for capitalism, this game aims to make lucrative sustainability second nature to the children of a new world in which biology and economics are inextricably linked. The game aims to do this by exciting its players into creating a ten year plan for sustainability problem solving, empowering them as a connected global network, and alerting them to their major role in this next crucial ten years of human civilization.
Think you have what it takes to enter the competition and prosper in battle? Have great green inspired news and views? You, too, can enter Battle of the Blogs by starting your own GO Journal. Winning posts will be featured on the GO front page for all to read and reckon with. Let the games begin!
January 16th, 2008 at 11:43 am
I found this out a couple weeks ago and was really surprised and shock and what to share and tell as many people as possible and thought more people should now and help. Doesn’t really fit with your blog but I did not know this a month ago and as I wrote above I think everyone should know this and take action to do it, and it’s easy way to save money.
“Common Sense”
First the idea of common sense is false because it is based on a person’s life experiences, education etc. Now recently I came accross information through a business customer and looked further into it. Here is what I found, ”
Over 700 million cartridges were thrown away world-wide in 2003 - and since more and more people use inkjet cartridges this amount will continue to grow year after year.
Empty cartridges contain residual toner powder, ink, a plastic casing, aluminum and other parts. These parts are all non-biodegradable and they will take more than 1000 years to decompose in landfill sites.
The remanufacturing of cartridges as an alternative to producing new ones currently reduces world demand of oil by 300,000 barrels and saves 17,000 tons of aluminum as well as 10,000,000 tons of timber. Besides helping to reduce carbon emissions, a major cause of global warming, it conserves resources and reduces waste.
1.5 pints of crude oil are needed to produce one cartridge. In the last 6 months alone inkjet cartridge recycling has saved more than 50 million liters of oil, more than the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska’s Prince William Sound in 1989.”
Wow, so my whole point is this client twotonellc.com remanufacturers ink and toner cartridges and considering the above information it only makes common sense to buy remanufactured ink and toner cartridges. You save money, get a higher yield (more prints) and save money.
Check out twotonellc.com, and use common sense.