earth-friendly

Spring Cleaning

April 10, 2008

Say you have a bunch of old VHS tapes lying around, on which you’ve recorded various episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel. Or a drawer full of empty CD jewel cases. A bunch of old Zip disks perhaps? How 1995 of you me. All of this junk takes up a lot of space, [...]

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Lights Out

March 26, 2008

Chicago is the designated flagship city for the U.S. and one of many cities around the world participating in the World Wildlife Fund’s Earth Hour at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 29. For one hour, you are encouraged to turn off all non-essential lights in your house. According to the web site: Earth Hour’s not just [...]

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No Kermit, it IS easy being Green

March 26, 2008

There is so much talk nowadays about being green, reducing your carbon footprint, the four Rs: reduce, reuse, recycle and restore, etc. I think it’s great that it has finally become more commonplace, and I hope it increases. While we’re by no means perfect, since at least the early ’90s both Pete and I having [...]

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