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Easy Ways to Be Green Around Your Home

Family Balance Sheet

Honestly, I signed up for the trip, because it was a free chance to go to Pittsburgh. In the late 80′s, green was just a color in the rainbow, not an environmental movement. Hang your laundry outside and have the sun do all of the work and it’s FREE! Today, I see life differently. Green Living'

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Is ‘Going Green’ Killing Our Economy?

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Newspapers are so desperate for subscriptions that they have moved to the grocery store to give away free papers with the hope of luring in new subscribers. Many of my cousins, aunts and uncles worked for these paper mills. While the movement toward going green may be closing certain jobs, it is also opening up new ones.

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On Environmentalism Becoming Consumerism

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

People make feel like they deserve such toys because they work hard, but this needs to change if we are to have any hope of saving ourselves. Sadly, the environmental movement has become just another place for companies to sell us more crap we don’t need. Why Buying Green Is Not Always Eco-Friendly. Go Green'