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Green Living Festival 2011

Rebecca Long — Fri, 13 May 2011 14:46:45 +0000

The Green Living Festival is this weekend in Rochester, MI!

If you’re eager to learn about green living and wellness, and are seeking healthy, eco-friendly products, services and programs, don’t miss this festival.

Additionally, you can attend Party for the Planet tonight and tomorrow night, free! It will be hosted by The Rochester Mills Beer Co., one of Michigan’s largest brewpubs and Mind Body & Spirits restaurant, known for serving local and organic meals.

See you there!

Happy Earth Day!

Rebecca Long — Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:29:27 +0000

What are you doing today to celebrate our earth?

One thing you could do is get coffee!

Starbucks and Caribou Coffee are inviting everyone to bring in a reusable mug or tumbler and get a free brewed coffee or tea.

By using your own cup or tumbler, you’re helping to reduce our environmental impact!

Have a great Earth Day!

Glass Recycling 101

Steve Stiffler — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 17:55:37 +0000

Just polished off a bottle of wine? Don’t throw the bottle away – put it in your glass recycling!

Glass recycling may vary in your community, so do some research to see what you can recycle. Many communities only offer food-grade glass recycling, like glass bottles and jars.

Click here to read the Dos and Don’ts of Glass Recycling.

Don’t throw your tree away, recycle it!

Steve Stiffler — Tue, 28 Dec 2010 15:50:09 +0000

Oakland County Parks is offering a county-wide Christmas Tree recycling effort beginning after Christmas at 11 different Oakland County Parks locations.

The recycled trees will be turned into mulch and made available to the public free of charge for 2011. There is no fee to drop off the trees, but all ornaments and tinsel must be removed prior to disposal. Trees can be dropped off any day from December 26th, 2010 through January 16th, 2011 from 9a – 4p. For more information and to find a location near you, click here.

The Holiday Inn in Grand Rapids (310 Pearl Street Northwest) is accepting old holiday trees now through January 7. Trees can be dropped off between 7 a.m. and 5 p.m., and there is no charge. For more details, click here.

Looking for new ways to recycle?

Rebecca Long — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 16:20:45 +0000

Switch to LED, Recycle Your Old String Lights

“Holiday lights look so pretty strung along rooftops and twined around trees, but they can be an electricity drain. Luckily, by choosing LED lights, making smart decorating choices and recycling old strands, your home can still sparkle with holiday cheer at a minimal environmental cost. …”

See rest of the article by Sophie Quinton here:

Compared to holiday incandescent lights, holiday LED lights:

White LED lights

use up to 95% less energy

last up to 10 times longer

are more durable with no filaments or glass bulbs to break

produce very little heat reducing the risk of fire

Remember, both incandescent and LED holiday lights are recyclable.

Current Copper Prices

Stiffler — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:00:56 +0000

Experts say it’s hard to keep up with the price of copper today. Many are concerned about commodities in general but copper in particular. There are so many external factors that control such prices. A natural disaster or strike could cause copper demand to skyrocket instantly. Keep up with current copper prices here.

Here is an article reporting that as copper price drops, so do thefts.

A good source of copper related information as it relates to the electrical industry can be found at Electrical Wholesaling.

April 22 is Earth Day!

Rebecca Long — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 13:55:50 +0000

Earth Day 2009 marks the beginning of the Green Generation Campaign. Thousands of events are being planned around the world. Celebrate Earth Day with your community!

Information on Earth Day Michigan can be found here.

For more information on Earth Day 2009, please visit the earthdaynetwork.

Kansas City pet adoptions from Animal Haven

Stiffler — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:37:20 +0000

Recently my wife and I adopted a cat named Ester from Animal Haven, a no-kill animal shelter located in Merriam, Kansas.

Animal Haven (which we love) is the largest no-kill pet shelter in the greater Kansas City area. They have a large number of adoptable dogs and cats that need a new home. They manage stray animals for twelve local cities within the Kansas City area plus take in pets from people who can no longer care for them. If you’re looking for a pet and live in the Kansas City area please check out Animal Haven.

See all their recently adopted pets at Petfinder.com

Adoptable Dogs

Adoptable Cats

Video: Installing a French Drain

Stiffler — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 01:39:18 +0000

To see how to install a French drain, watch the below videos from HGTV and DIY.

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Need step-by-step instructions on installing a French drain? We’ve made it simple! Find instructions on installing your a French drain here!

11 Facts about Paper

Rebecca Long — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:55:26 +0000

1. Year paper was invented: 105 A.D. (by Chinese imperial court official Lun Ts’ai).

2. Global comsumption of paper and paperboard in 2005: 368 million tons.

3. Projected consumption in 2021: 579 million tons.

4. Paper consumed per person, per year in the United States: 330 kilograms.

5. Paper consumed per person per year in Western Europe: 200 kgs; Latin America: 50 kgs; China and Asia: 28 kgs.

6. Sheets of paper used each year by the average U.S. office worker: 10, 000.

7. Percent of printed-on office paper discarded within one day of printing: 45%.

8. Municipal waste discarded in the U.S. in 2006: 251 million tons. Percent share accounted for by paper: 34%.

9. Beginning of the U.S. recycled paper industry: 1690.

10. Number of trees saved by one ton of recycled paper: 17.

11. Landfill spaced saved by one ton of recycled paper: 3.3 cubic yards.

Information obtained from January/February 2009 issue of World Watch.