Recycle Your Yard and Kitchen Waste – Create Your Own Compost Pile

Composting is the process of breaking down waste into a nutrient-rich topsoil. Here are a few tips on how to create your compost pile. Let's start first with a list of what to or not to include in your compost pile...

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7 Ways In 7 Days

7 Ways In 7 Days: A simple, user friendly approach to making a positive difference to your carbon footprint and impact on Earth. Go natural and bring it back to neutral!—By Claire Bevilacqua, TransWorld SURF's resident expert on environmental...

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Green and Environmental Blogs and Web Sites

Searching around for environmental sites I ran across a site called blog.thinkgreenmedia they have a list of very beneficial links to help or assist you with your "green living" lifestyle. I've listed the ones I thought were the most...

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RECYCLED PAPER: EXPLODING THE MYTHS

Common Myths About Recycled Paper MYTH: All paper is recycled now, there’s no need to ask for it. FACT: Even at the height of its success, recycled paper only had about 10% of the printing and writing paper market and even...

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Carbon Footprint Calculators

One of the best is the University of California at Berkeley’s Cool Climate Calculator. A free web-based tool. Takes into account daily driving mileage, grocery, and electricity expenses, assigns a carbon score that you can compare to similar households...

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