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User Post: Earth day: ideas to become a greener family

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Earth Day is celebrated every year on April 22nd. In our family, we try to have Earth Day every day and over the years, we have become better at recycling, using resources better, make it work with only one car, and bike more to the library or shopping areas. Earth Day celebrations are…

Green Demolitions

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My girlfriend, who is presently remodeling her house just asked me what to do with all of her perfectly useful appliances and fixtures, so I began to research. Of course, Freecycle is an excellent local option, but if she lived on the East Coast I would have raved about Green Demolitions. The socially (and inadvertently eco) company says that their service is a "win, win" situation. But this is more like a "win, win, win, win" situation. Green Demolitions will bring along a crew of contractors to extract all the useful items (for free). Then they'll sell them at a fraction of the going price in one of their three stores (New York, Connecticut and Pennsylvania) or online at greendemolitions.org, give you a tax deduction and put the profits towards their charity to help people overcome addictions. The donor, the customer, the charity and the earth all come out on top!

Simple ways for kids to be eco friendly

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When you think about teaching your kids to be eco-friendly, it's easy to focus on symbolic gestures like going to the beach to participate in shoreline cleanup efforts. But like most everything else in life, it's the little things that can matter.Kids can learn early on how to be earth...