While curbside recycling is more widely available than ever, there are still some items that can’t be recycled curbside or at a typical municipal facility. These popular retail locations will properly recycle your old electronics and appliances for free.
Organic Cocktails for Your Holiday Celebration
The turkey you’re preparing Christmas Eve is free-range, the potatoes you’re roasting came from a local farm and the fruit in your fruitcake was grown without pesticides and picked up at your local farmer’s market. But what about your holiday cocktails? The truth is, very few...
New Car for the Holidays? Donate Your Old Clunker to Charity and Save the World
We’ve all seen the commercial where a key falls out of a stocking on Christmas morning and the husband and wife run out onto their snowy driveway - three pajama-clad children in tow - to find a shiny new car festooned with a large red bow. What they failed to show you is the...
Difficult Days Ahead at COP21 Climate Summit
In the first few days of the COP21 climate change summit in France, world leaders, politicians, and other environmental experts began their discussions on a worldwide agreement to combat global warming. Britain’s Prince Charles gave the keynote address and stressed that if...
Green Your Holiday Shipping Method
It’s the season of shipping. As you complete your extensive shopping list for loved ones, you might realize that you’ll need to ship some of these presents. Keep in mind these great tips to help you send the packages a more eco-friendly way.
The United Nations Climate Change Summit: What To Expect
In the coming days, leaders from across the world will gather outside Paris for the The United Nations Climate Change Summit, also known as COP21 (which stands for Conference of Parties 21st meeting) to discuss fossil fuel consumption, limits on greenhouse gas emissions, global...
Trains, Planes and Automobiles— Which is the Greenest Transportation?
Traveling during the holidays comes with numerous headaches. Flights are expensive and overcrowded, lines are long, traffic gets backed up, everyone is in a hurry - and that’s when the weather cooperates! Worrying about the environmental impact of your travel, however, doesn’t...
Ready, Set, Winter! Tips For An Eco-Friendly, Winter Home
Was that our Indian summer? Yeah, that’s definitely come and gone! And now the beautiful fall foliage is leaving us, too, and it’s time to prepare for winter, which is just around the corner. Get your home ready for some serious chill before the first snow falls using the...
Green Inns and Bed & Breakfasts for Your Winter Holiday
If you’re deciding what to do for your upcoming winter holidays and don’t want to deal with the hassles of flying, making reservations at busy restaurants and navigating through throngs of tourists in overcrowded vacation destinations, we have a low-key, cozy solution that’s...
Keep Halloween Scary Sweet: Candy Safety Tips
How many times have you heard this refrain: “Don’t take candy from strangers”? And then what happens every year on October 31? We parade our children through the streets, going door-to-door, taking candy from strangers! Hmmm… Let’s keep our kids safe this Halloween by abiding...