Feb
03
2011
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...
Feb
01
2011
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...
Feb
01
2011
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...
Dec
29
2010
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
Dec
08
2010
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...