February 8th, 2010 by admin
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My week long hiatus from our green tasks are over and now it is back to the fun! We now have been at this over four months and am excited at all the changes we have made in this time, but I think it is time to get back to some basics. Ashley wants me to find some of the things that we currently throw away and find ways to recycle these items. This is my challenge for the week.
Since our garbage has gone down quite dramatically, this might be a difficult one to follow through on. We used to send our garbage out on a weekly basis, but now it is about every 3 – 4 weeks that we put garbage on the curb. This makes our selections of items to choose from relatively small in comparison to what we used to throw away.
So, please join me this week in figuring out some new things to recycle and ways to creatively recycle some of the items that currently go into the waste basket. If you have any interesting ways that you recycle, I would love to read about them in the comment area below.
February 7th, 2010 by admin
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This is a day when many guys across America focus on football and friends. Whatever you are doing, I think it is possible to make the Super Bowl a little more environmentally friendly. Keep these tips and mind and let me know any of your own!
- Stay home instead of driving around and using fuel
- If you do go elsewhere, bring your own reusable glass if they only have plastic
- During half-time pick up all of the recyclables and put them in the appropriate bins
- If you are getting pizza, use one that you already have in the freezer instead of delivery. Better yet, make one from scratch!
- Forego any Super Bowl branded signs, etc that are toss away schwag or not recyclable.
- Turn off the television during half time.
February 5th, 2010 by admin
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I went out for a coffee today with a friend; something I don’t get to do often. I decided to take off the cardboard sleeve and brought it home to recycle so there would be less waste from my trip. I realize how many coffee cups end up in the garbage every day. Ben had already went through the statistics of styrofoam coffee cup waste. Maybe we can get more specific on what popular coffee chains are doing to reduce their carbon footprint.
Starbucks: Starbucks have several goals in improving their inventory options. They have set the goal to produce a recyclable cup by 2012. They want to make 25% of cups used reusable. They also want to have in house recycling an option.
Caribou Coffee: This franchise sells felt reusable coffee sleeves. I think this idea is great! They also have a great selection of reusable coffee mugs for sale on their website.
I am having a lot of difficulty finding anything under Dunn’s Brother’s Coffee, Dunkin’ Donuts or Seattle’s Best websites. So instead of stopping the blog now I wanted to bring up a really cool green coffee invention. It is a reusable coffee mug, but a different sort. It actually looks like a coffee cup that you would get in the cafe. This is a good invention probably for the person who likes the feel of a traditional coffee cup.
So I thought I would be able to get a little more information on this topic but there isn’t much that Ben hasn’t already covered already. If you know any cool eco-friendly coffee creations that we should know about, please leave it in the comment section below.
