Ontario plans to ban the use and sale of garden pesticides; that equates to over 300 products and 70 chemicals. Unfortunately, golf courses, farms, and forests will be exempt. Home Depot has already pulled garden pesticides from their shelves in Ontario.
Sources: The Globe and Mail,
Could a solar power system be coming to a home improvement store near you? Perhaps. Since 2004, BP and Home Depot have teamed up to offer residential solar systems in California, New Jersey, and Long Island, New York stores. But now it’s been expanded to more states that have good solar power incentives on the books, like Colorado, Texas, and Arizona.
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If your office is anything like mine, you have a TON of outdated/broken/obsolete tech stuff lying around, with nowhere to go. Now, in my office, we try not to throw this stuff out, because we are aware of the fact that it probably is not safe to go into the garbage dump. So we have what is lovingly referred to as the “tech graveyard”. It is a large box in a closet where
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In April, home improvement retailer Home Depot launched its Eco-Options program in the United States. Designed to help customers identify products that have less of an impact on the environment than their counterparts, Eco Options has received both praise and criticism around the blogosphere. Last week, I had a chance to talk with Ron Jarvis, the company’s Vice President of Pro Business, Tool Rental, and Eco Innovation (pictured on the right),
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