If you get a new cellphone this holiday season, why not donate your old one to Secure the Call Foundation? They’ll pay for shipping your old phone to them and turn it into a 911-only emergency phone for people in need. Simple and effective way to 1) help someone in need and 2) keep old but functional cellphones from ending up in a landfill.
December 20, 2007
November 21, 2007
Yay! Another easy way to reduce waste
Catalog Choice is an awesome site where you can sign up to opt out of getting all those junk catalogs you don’t need in your snail mail. This is very much on my mind, as we just got TWO copies of the Uno Alla Volta catalog the other day, and even one of them is too many. I’ve signed up, and I’ll fill out the details as soon as I get home and fish those puppies out of the recycling bin.
(thanks to MH)
July 5, 2007
May 8, 2007
Having an impact.
I’ve been following No-Impact Man for a couple of months, and it’s made me think a lot about my own impact on the planet. I do more than many people, but not as much as I could; I’m working on it, one day at a time.
Then today, in a comment on a post at Good Experience, I was introduced to TerraCycle, my new favorite company in the whole wide world – specifically their Bottle Brigade project. And in poking around their site a bit more, I discovered that they have been Sued By Scotts.
Please take a moment to check out who they are and what they do, contribute if you can, and think about what you can do to reduce your own impact on the environment.
Why I’m never buying bottled water again, and why you shouldn’t either
Since I’ve been following No Impact Man for a while, I was primed for this, but there were still some severely sobering facts in this that managed to stun me. Take some time to read and react to The Truth About Bottled Water.
Highlights:
via MH, BB, and MeFi.