Waste-free Lunches

I love receiving photos of my friends’ children on their first day of school; all decked out in their new school outfits, with their brand new lunch boxes in hand.
Going to school.  Learning.  That’s all about Everyday Sustainable.
But NOT all those little kid-sized packaged foods and plastic ziploc bags.
Here’s a resource to pack Waste-Free Lunches: [...]

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stop phone books: YellowPagesGoesGreen.org

Every time a phone book shows up in front of my door, my first thoughts are, “Not again.  Now how am I going to recycle this?”
I have used a paper phone book maybe five times in the last ten years.  What a waste.  All that paper and energy to manufacture and deliver over 500 million phone books annually.  And then [...]

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carpool by Twitter coming soon?

Using Tweet to facilitate carpooling would be VERY cool.
I read about this soon-to-arrive Twitter application: TweetMyRide
TweetMyRide is a site that helps Twitter users link up to carpool if there are going to the same place. Save some gas. Use TweetMyRide.
They haven’t Tweeted about it for 2.5 months…doesn’t sound too promising.  But keeping my fingers crossed.  [...]

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