Comments on: 8 Ways to Reduce Your Impact Today

By: Former Investor

Former Investor — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 10:14:05 +0000

Mr. Beaton and his company, Chlorine Free Products Association, is a big scam. I had the misfortune of dealing with him and his company before. He sucks you in by telling you he is a non-profit organization that is trying to make the world a better place. He claims that by paying him an obscene amount of money that he can not only make your company more environmentally friendly but also reduce manufacturing costs. He also likes to talk about how large his organization is and how efficient they are. In reality he runs his company out of an office in his house that he rents. His company is in shambles. He just tries to get people and companies suckered into giving him large amounts of cash to buy in to his company and his services, which he then just puts into his own pocket. What’s the end result? You wind up with nothing, and he winds up with your cash. Please avoid this scammer and his company at all costs.

By: Ed Nash

Ed Nash — Sat, 26 Dec 2009 11:55:59 +0000

Am i the only few conservative and recycle conscious person in my family and collegues? YES! I visit some of my friends and family members and gosh, they don’t give a hoot about the environment. Some of them don’t recycle, continue to use paper towels, dump their old clothes instead recyling them (chariies for a start) and its very worrying.

Well, i try to educate them all the time and i believe evenually they’re gonna turn a new leaf. Well, hope so.

By: Organic Gardener

Organic Gardener — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:30:44 +0000

Ways we are reducing our comsumption:
Washable cloths instead of paper towels and napkins.
Catching rainwater in barrels at downspouts for watering.
Vermicomposting our kitchen waste, paper, ect.
Making fire starters from dryer lint stuffed in paper towel, toilet rolls (it’s the little things)
Growing an organic vegetable garden, using worm castings as fertilizer.
Using self-watering container gardening to reduce watering requirements (see it: http://www.organicgardenworks.com/
Eating at home.
Watching movies at home (thank you Netflix)

By: kim kepes

kim kepes — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:07:56 +0000

Every morning and evening – I take Blackie my dog to walk ., we pick up cans.
Today we have a total of 11 cans ., unreal . We have a garbage can in the shed – we will donate them to the humane society. When we walk through the park – kids laugh at us for picking them up ., its really sad that today kids are not learning – why do the parks not have bins there ?
We are happy to pick them up and recycle them. Keep up the good work

By: Green&Clean

Green&Clean — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 23:40:37 +0000

I especially like #5. because I think with the economy in a recession, a lot of people have become more frugal and not spending on things that we don’t need. Hopefully, when the economy picks up, we still keep these practices and learn that we don’t need to have so much “stuff” that ends up in our landfills anyway

By: Sr Anna Soepraptiwi DC

Sr Anna Soepraptiwi DC — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 08:54:13 +0000

I appreciate opinion and tips in this website.
Very helpful for everyone to save our earth.
be creative to keep our environment.

By: Rajeev

Rajeev — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:51:31 +0000

Nice Article. Some of the tips are really useful as well as contribute to a large extent in making our world green. But the important thing is that we should try to create awareness on this issue, so that more and more people know about the hazards of global warming and come forward with initiatives towards an eco-friendly and more greener world.

By: Lea

Lea — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:45:43 +0000

I am so glad you included the information about cloth napkins rather than paper napkins. My household has switched to cloth napkins, and the transition was easy. I dug out all the cloth napkins recieved as wedding gifts in 1989, and placed them in a pretty basket on the counter. I have since added several more napkins purchased at garage sales to the basket as my family grasped the convience of using the cloth napkins. It takes up no extra laundry space. If I run a full load of clothes, five to ten cloth napkins can be added making very little difference to the load size. We have opted to go greener one step at a time. Each month we implement a new green feature to our home. Going green is a lifestyle change accomplished and maintained by reprogramming. We also give thumbs up to apartment composting (or a worm farm) which we keep in a tub in our fireplace (noone even notices it behind the fireplace screen and there is no bad smell), and adding black shades between the blinds and window which has cut down our electrical consumption and still looks good– noone notices this feature either. Starting in July we will be buying season passes to the local bus system leaving the car parked most of the time. We call these our Damn the Man projects. We appreciate websites like this one and the comments and ideas left on these discussion pages for giving us our new ideas for the up-coming months.

By: Terry

Terry — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 04:46:13 +0000

I like the way Al put it, and I agree with that perspective. It’s great to see articles that promote “thinking green”, and we all like to do personal things in our daily lives to reduce waste, but government and industry need to stop forcing consumers to choose between ‘cheap & convenient’ or ‘expensive & the environment’,

By: John

John — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 22:14:28 +0000

Get churches and religious organizations involved in all aspects of being sensitive to our environment. Churches etc. own a lot of real estate and have huge buildings which are somewhat vacant much of the time. I am wondering who monitors their use of energy in those buildings with respect to managing electricity and what awareness goes into their properties and how they are able to upkeep their lawns to be so pretty and how they accomplish that. Given how much our collective consciousness has evolved in the USA regarding these issues, I am curious to see if their exists a corresponding awareness within the churches, synagogues, and temples. I’ve imagined for some years now that these places would be great shelter for the homeless but that’s still another issue.