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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A view from National Geographic about Why Recycle?

Why Recycle? Recycling: The Big Picture By Tom Zeller, Jr. National Geographic Staff Photograph by Peter Essick 1. Does it make sense to recycle? 2. What Gets Recycled in the U.S. 3. Excess Packaging

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Recycling to Keep Waste Out of Landfills & Oceans

Joining A Brigade TerraCycle runs national programs called Brigades, each of which is for a specific waste stream (like the Drink Pouch Brigade, or the Cookie Wrapper Brigade). Each Brigade has a certain number of open locations (anywhere from 500-30,000), and...

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