As you know, Earth Promise has formed a relationship with
Changents, a site that
“connects Agents of Change with a fan base of Backers around the world, enabling them to create change together.” Not only have I posted some blogs about the site in general, but have begun interviewing some of the most incredible
Heroes.
When I first found
Changents, I registered to be on their mailing list. Yesterday’s emai…
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Added by Heather on October 13, 2009 at 6:22am —
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It takes a giant leap for some to go completely paperless. At work, some may begin to scan all their colleagues’ buiness cards into their computer; others may invest in an electronic records retention system. What about at home? I am constantly battling the endless paper that accumulates. Many of us now p…
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Added by Heather on October 6, 2009 at 5:43pm —
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The global awareness website,
Changents,
“connects Agents of Change with a fan base of ‘Backers’ around the world, enabling them to create change together.” The best part about
Changents is that it brings global awareness ab…
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Added by Heather on October 5, 2009 at 6:57am —
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Although many of us tote around some great reusable cloth bags and there are countless
anti-plastic campaigns for us to partake in, we still need to put pressure on the plastic bag industry. World plastic bag consumption takes millions of barrels of oil and masses of natural gas to produce these convenient…
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Added by Heather on September 18, 2009 at 10:30am —
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Kudos to my blogging comrade, Stefani Newman, who now writes for Seventh Generation’s
7Gen Blog . I have purchased some of the Seventh Generation eco-products, but I must admit, I have never visited…
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Added by Heather on September 17, 2009 at 10:47am —
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“Help Save the planet, one drop at a time! Just imagine what we can do, send it on….”
These inspirational words and lyrics are the quintessential mantra from
Disney these days. A small scale, tweeners Band-Aid-esque group (remember,
We are the World?) has been formed, called,
Disney Friends for Change: Project Green. Their environmental message, via song…
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Added by Heather on August 26, 2009 at 7:03am —
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I love the three R’s:
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. The most innovative projects and products derive from this mantra, especially the Reusing.
In May I posted a…
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Added by Heather on July 24, 2009 at 11:55am —
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June 16th, fifteen eco-eds from
Dartmouth College packed up their modified 1989 MCI motor-coach bus for a summer adventure that is making a difference. This eco-mobile (aka, the
Big Green Bus), has been gu…
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Added by Heather on July 9, 2009 at 5:09am —
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When people see me at birthday parties or holiday gatherings, they think I’m watching their every move when it comes to
recycling. (OK, maybe I do cringe a little when they have a stack of Styrofoam cups on the counter). It is a delicate balancing act between educating a…
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Added by Heather on July 2, 2009 at 6:04am —
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I was updating my status on Facebook and being the voyeur that I am, (hey aren’t we all on Facebook?) I checked out my friend’s flagged alert that she became a fan of
FakePlasticFish. That looked interesting. And indeed it is! The website’s mission statement says it all,
“Living life with less plastic and moving towards Zero-Waste.”
Beth Terry, founder of
Fake…
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Added by Heather on July 1, 2009 at 12:04pm —
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Living in south Florida, it is the norm to have a downpour at some point during the day in the summer months. I leave my watering cans out so they can catch the raindrops, giving me ample water to quench the thirst of my plants. This, then, allows me to
reduce my consumpt…
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Added by Heather on June 26, 2009 at 5:03am —
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Here’s the scenario: you finish your moisturizer, eye-shadow or lipstick and look for the
chasing arrows to see if it can be tossed in with your other recyclables. You find nothing (most of the time) so unfortunately it ends up in the landfill.
An earlier
Earth Promise post on
Aveda’s recycling cap program advised you to bring solely bottle caps to your participating Aveda.
“This includes…
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Added by Heather on June 23, 2009 at 4:11pm —
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My daughter was reading through her
National Geographic Kids magazine and suggested we send in our old jeans to help set a Guinness World Record. You know how kids just
love Guinness World Records; the books have striking photos combined with mind-blowing facts. What a great way to captivate an audience! I figured the sending in of our denim was to make the largest pair of jeans in the world. Well, I got the superlative correct: it is to make the
largest, but the world’s…
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Added by Heather on June 22, 2009 at 8:31am —
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If you read yesterday’s post, you recognized that
StyleSubstanceSoul has much to offer. I decided to save their recently launched goodwill project for today’s blog. Under the
Save the World tab, (on the StyleSubstanceSoul site) I came across an interesting link,
Formerly Flip Flops . The familiar chasing arrows…oops, I mean flip flops definitely caught my attention.…
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Added by Heather on June 18, 2009 at 7:08am —
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Being a blogger, I come across some incredible websites. I can spend endless hours (yikes!) getting lost in cyberspace. I start off with an agenda, which then leads me to additional browsing as a result of link-clicking on articles of interest. It always guides me to places I’ve…
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Added by Heather on June 17, 2009 at 5:48am —
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Father’s Day is coming up quickly; this coming Sunday, June 21st to be exact. You not only want to please your dad, but the earth as well. Listed below are some classic and unusual ideas that are worth checking out.
• Neckties. Do people still buy these for Father’s Day? Well here’s a…
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Added by Heather on June 15, 2009 at 6:53am —
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We’ve heard the mantra: no more plastic bags! I came across the site,
Quazen that provides clever crafty ideas (with how-to video clips) on how to reuse the ubiquitous plastic bag.
If you ask me, I think the best thing to do is first reuse the bags sitting at home for all your shopping - carry your own bags, don’t add any more to the waste. If they are not usable anymore then recyc…
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Added by Heather on June 12, 2009 at 5:57am —
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Where are you going this summer? Staying home and visiting local attractions? If you do decide to venture on the popular
“stay-cation” due to the difficult economic times and rising gas prices, then there are many
earth promises you can make to benefit the earth.
With more people in your house over the summer (kids home from school, visitors) the amount of electrical waste can be staggering. Here are ways to reduce energy usage around you…
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Added by Heather on June 11, 2009 at 10:08am —
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What do kids
really need these days when it comes to giving and receiving birthday gifts? A few years ago, after being overwhelmed with all the birthday party chaos (plastic party favors, overflow of paper products, receiving of unnecessary gifts; and returning of gifts) togethe…
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Added by Heather on June 5, 2009 at 9:39am —
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