For many years I have been anti-plastic bag - not only do I carry my own trendy re-usable bags, but I also annoy shoppers by showing them off and suggesting they also become... 'Bag-ist'! Organizations like conservingnow.com are successfully and quite rightly making plastic bag users feel very naughty!
Clive Pearse, Host of HGTV hit shows Designed To Sell and HGTV Design Star
We have all heard about the devastating effects on our planet from plastic bag waste. Now there is help! ConservingNow.com has taken my passion for recycling and reusing into an incredible website. You can learn about green living, buy unique reminder products and find the tools to teach your friends and family to say good bye plastic bags and hello going green. If you look at one website today (besides mine!!) make it ConservingNow.com!
Lisa LaPorta, Designer
Did you know that Americans throw out approximately 179,000 tons of batteries each year? Instead of contributing to the enormous amount of battery waste - buy rechargeable batteries and you will also be saving lots of money! A single rechargeable battery can replace up to one thousand single-use alkaline batteries over its lifetime! That potentially means never having to purch
If, like millions of others, you eat your lunch in your company cafeteria, consider bringing your own silverware and plates. Using plastic silverware means you are likely using around 250 pieces of each. That's 250 forks, 250 spoons and/or 250 knives. At the end of the year - that's a lot of plastic! If every other worker used just 1 plastic piece a day, it would amount
As Groundhog Day was last week, maybe it got you thinking about spring. Or your spring planting. Or patio furniture. Just maybe the air warmed just enough so that you could think about what an outdoor dinner would be like! Its a little early, sure - but allow me to plant this seed in your head. If you are planning on purchasing new outdoor furniture this year - THI
As I walk past our neighborhood school, I am always amazed at the number of idling cars. An idling vehicle emits twenty times more pollution than one traveling 32 miles per hour. Idling is even more polluting inside a garage. If just 10% of all garage owners were to idle their cars for just five fewer minutes per day, the total savings would be 84.5 million gallons of gar
