We really ARE a Green Paradise!
San Diego/Carlsbad/San Marcos made the Forbes' Top 10 list of LEAST Toxic Cities in the nation. I'm not surprised and know that my new adopted hometown of Encinitas is included in the "Tri-City" description.
Let's take it and run with it! Green is GOOD!
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Friday, November 27, 2009
Monday, November 16, 2009
They don't even make it in the house...
About 90% of my mail never makes it inside my front door.
My trip to the curb-side mailbox always includes a stopover at my recycling bin. Flyers, coupons, those unsolicited VAL-U-PACs and U-SAVE-UMs go right in the bin. Those fake newspapers titled THRIFTY-SAVE and the like go in, too.
Catalogs get a slightly different treatment. I rip off the back cover, the part that includes my address, and throw the rest in the bin. (Ok, I admit there are a couple magazines that I'll flip through before I recycle, but there aren't many.) I take those address pages inside and fire up Catalog Choice (http://www.catalogchoice.org/) my favorite place to stop unwanted catalog mailings. I've been a member for several years, and had really reduced the number of direct mail catalogs. However, my recent move across the country, to sunny Encinitas (aka "Paradise") landed me back on all the mailing lists, it seems. Catalog Choice collects my customer number and source code for each catalog and gets me off those infernal lists.
Opt Out PreSceen (https://www.optoutprescreen.com) gets me off the lists from credit card and insurance companies who troll for my (completely unlikely) business.
They don't come in the mail, but those gigantic phonebooks that trip you up when they magically appear on your doorstop (Who uses phonebooks? They are sooo 12 years ago!) can also be stopped. Check out http://www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org/
Slowly, I'm finding and using other opt-out services to reduce unwanted mail and cut down on the time I spend standing over my recycling bin. What services do you use to cut down on unwanted/unread mail?
My trip to the curb-side mailbox always includes a stopover at my recycling bin. Flyers, coupons, those unsolicited VAL-U-PACs and U-SAVE-UMs go right in the bin. Those fake newspapers titled THRIFTY-SAVE and the like go in, too.
Catalogs get a slightly different treatment. I rip off the back cover, the part that includes my address, and throw the rest in the bin. (Ok, I admit there are a couple magazines that I'll flip through before I recycle, but there aren't many.) I take those address pages inside and fire up Catalog Choice (http://www.catalogchoice.org/) my favorite place to stop unwanted catalog mailings. I've been a member for several years, and had really reduced the number of direct mail catalogs. However, my recent move across the country, to sunny Encinitas (aka "Paradise") landed me back on all the mailing lists, it seems. Catalog Choice collects my customer number and source code for each catalog and gets me off those infernal lists.
Opt Out PreSceen (https://www.optoutprescreen.com) gets me off the lists from credit card and insurance companies who troll for my (completely unlikely) business.
They don't come in the mail, but those gigantic phonebooks that trip you up when they magically appear on your doorstop (Who uses phonebooks? They are sooo 12 years ago!) can also be stopped. Check out http://www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org/
Slowly, I'm finding and using other opt-out services to reduce unwanted mail and cut down on the time I spend standing over my recycling bin. What services do you use to cut down on unwanted/unread mail?
Thursday, November 12, 2009
What a Waste!
"...of our insatiable consumption, only 7% of the materials 'consumed' actually become saleable products - 93% is waste.
Of the 7% that actually becomes a usable product, fully 80% is discarded after one use and 99% because waste within six weeks of its purchase by consumers."
- Daniel Sitarz, "Greening Your Business"
Of the 7% that actually becomes a usable product, fully 80% is discarded after one use and 99% because waste within six weeks of its purchase by consumers."
- Daniel Sitarz, "Greening Your Business"
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