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This page contains GREEN resources for you to take advantage of as you need. There will be excellent ideas provided from a broad range of resources. To make this even more effective, we welcome and encourage your input (suggestions, website links, green items, vendors or concepts, etc.).   Thanks,  Rich Wolfert





Resources: (listed alphabetically)

  1. BulletBringing up baby with safe and green toys. This is the title of an excellent CNN article. Good all year long.

  2. BulletWhat should you do if a compact fluorescent light (CFL) breaks? Here is the answer directly from the EPA.

  3. BulletHow do you dispose of a burned out (not shattered) CFL? Take it to Home Depot. They recycle these bulbs. See the correspondence I had with them recently (blue box below). Rich

  4. BulletEarth911: A excellent and extensive resource all about recycling. Have something unusual to recycle. This is the resource for you!

  5. BulletGardener’s Forum: looks to be a good site for questions and answers on just about everything ‘garden’.

  6. BulletGreen Daily - A really good website for ‘green’ ideas and information. (From the website: A Community for Energy Conservers, Organic Foodies, Eco Parents, and everyone else who loves and desires to protect out planet.) Good product reviews are included.

  7. Dear Mr. Wolfert, The Home Depot Customer Care is in receipt of your email.   We would like to inform you that in keeping with our commitment to the environment, The Home Depot has launched a national in-store compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb recycling program. The Home Depot is the first U.S. company to provide this free, convenient nationwide service. Our Canadian stores launched a CFL recycling program last year. Customers can now bring their expired CFL bulbs to any U.S. Home Depot store for safe and easy recycling. In a few months, all orange box stores will have a CFL bulb recycling receptacle located at the front of the store. These receptacles will be serviced by our current hazardous waste hauler, PSC, during the store?s regular waste pickup. Customers can place their bulbs in a provided plastic bag and deposit it into the container. PSC will collect the bulbs when the receptacles are full. In the interim, until the receptacles arrive, customers can bring expired,unbroken CFL bulbs to the Returns desk. These bulbs must be managed in accordance with our current HHM program and placed in the 24x24x12 Light Bulb Box (Part # R24X24), affixed with a universal waste label and closed when not in use. Please note that this program was developed to recycle CFL bulbs and not fluorescent tubes. If a customer returns a fluorescent tube, stores should place the tube in the 4? or 8? bulb box located in the central storage area of Receiving. In Canada, we?ve seen what happens when we offer customers a wide range of purchase and disposal options. The Canadian CFL Recycling Program, which is available in all 166 stores, has received approximately 20,000 bulbs for recycling since the program launched in November. Those stores also saw a 20 percent increase in unit sales of CFL bulbs from November to March, compared to the same period in the previous year. THD continues to be an industry leader in environmental awareness through our Eco Options products, our recycling program and the construction of five environmentally friendly stores certified by the U.S. Green Building Council. Thank you for contacting The Home Depot. Sincerely, Kanchan Customer Care Original Message Follows: ------------------------ Submitted: 10-29-2008 12:13:01 PM EDT State: NJ City: East Brunswick Zip/Postal Code: 08816 Subject:  Other Website Questions   Comments: I am the Vice Chairman of the East Brunswick, NJ Environmental Commission. I just found out that Home Depot will recycle compact fluorescent bulbs; a very good thing as they should NOT be discarded in the traditional way. Do you have any information on this that I might post on our website (www.njnaturenotes.com)? I think this is something that everyone in the region should know about. Thanks, Richard Wolfert http://www.njnaturenotes.com/shapeimage_4_link_0
    Bullet Green Home - A newly found website with lots to offer.

  8. Bullet Idealbite, a website intended green ideas that are practical and beneficial to your health, too.

  9. Bullet It should be easy being GREEN - It says what it does. Good reading.

  10. Bullet Mr. Green’s Home Page - a GREAT resource for students. Lots of ideas and instructions.

  11. Bullet National Geographic Environmental Video page. Diverse and far reaching. An excellent resource for adults and students.

  12. Bullet National Geographic’s The Green Guide - We don’t have to say more!

  13. Bullet Rutgers Gardens Farm Market. Don’t think we have to say more. This is how to act locally!

  14. Bullet We can solve it - The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection -- a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. The goal of the Alliance is to build a movement that creates the political will to solve the climate crisis -- in part through re-powering America with 100 percent of its electricity from clean energy sources within 10 years. Our economy, national security, and climate can’t afford to wait.

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  16. Bullet Here is an interesting green idea (and it’s NOT what you might think at first). This may be worth a try. If you do it, or investigate it, please let us know. (www.sinkpositive.com)

















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Reduce your footprint

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Need a cause? Looking for a fight to make or keep things green? This is the place.

(We’ll keep adding to this. Click the links below and take a stand.)


  1. 1.Oppose the creation of a Liquid Natural Gas island off the coast of New Jersey. Clean Ocean Action

David De Rothschield’s Eco Trip (on the Sundance Channel)

Available through Comcast on Demand

ECO TRIP: THE REAL COST OF LIVING

ECO TRIP is an eight-part original series exploring the origins and environmental impact of common everyday products, hosted by eco-adventurer David de Rothschild. ECO TRIP investigates iconic items from cotton t-shirts and paper napkins to salmon and cell phones, and follows their life cycle from production to disposal, revealing the environmental, social and health effects along the way.


ALSO


THE LAZY ENVIRONMENTALIST

Follow host Josh Dorfman on his quest to save the planet - one wasteful couch potato at a time! With help from a professional "mixologist," a "hypermiler" and other environmental experts, Sundance Channel's original new series, THE LAZY ENVIRONMENTALIST is sure to help change wasteful ways!

Plastic Water Bottles:

Do you use them often…even several times a day?

How much do you know about plastic water bottles?

Do you have any idea of the environmental impact of using them?

Do you know what they really cost to use?

Do you know what they can do to you?


We have some suggestions for replacing them.

Watch this video and then you will have a better understanding of why you should use a reusable steel bottle. Many, many companies make excellent steel bottles but we made each of the 3 above clickable so you can learn more about them.