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World Wisdom - Budget-Friendly, Sustainable Spring Break Ideas

Motherhood Moments

Ensuring our youngest consumers understand how to reuse and recycle paper products or plant a tree will nurture life-long recycling habits and a respect for the planet.” Hansan added: “Paper is made from a renewable resource-trees, and not fossil fuels. Once made, they can be judged on style and which plane flies the farthest.

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4 ways to futureproof your home for greener energy

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Did you know you can collect the rainwater that falls on your roof and harvest it for reuse? In a bid to lower our carbon footprint, heat source pumps are being looked at by more and more consumers. Here are just four ways you may need to look at to green your home and make it more efficient in the long-term. Harvesting your rainwater.

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Going Green at Work

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Reduce paper use – look at ways to reduce the amount of paper used in the business; recycle waste in an environmentally-friendly manner; reuse waste paper where possible. Business sustainability is a model that works towards creating long-term value to both employees and consumers through adopting green strategies.

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Like Hanes on Facebook to Win 1 of 600 EcoSmart Line Prizes

Nicoles Nickels

The EcoSmart line contains sweats, socks and T-Shirts made of post-consumer product or renewable energy for the whole family, with the Hanes comfort that you know and love! Reduce, recycle, reuse and now get comfortable! Each week this month, Hanes will be giving away products from the EcoSmart line to Facebook fans.

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How to Embrace a Sustainable Living Lifestyle

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

He describes sustainability as “shifting to a renewable energy-based, reuse/recycle economy with a diversified transport system” People often refer to their attempts at sustainability as “going green”, being eco-friendly or adopting an eco-living lifestyle.

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How to Establish an Eco-Friendly Lifestyle at Home

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Scientists are warning that humans are depleting these resources at an alarmingly fast rate, one that outstrips the planet’s ability to renew them. Reduce your “stuff” – we are constantly being encouraged and enticed to buy more “stuff” in the consumer-driven societies in which we live.

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Used Furniture – Re-purpose, Recycle, Re-use.

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

However, there are ways to safely and beautifully reuse/restore items such as beds, sofas, chairs and decorative pillows. I know that having someone redo an upholstered piece is expensive, but I now understand why – there is a lot of manual and time-consuming work involved. Have you renewed used furniture?

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