June 22nd, 2008 Sammy
Is your mailbox getting a little fat?
Like many others, we’ve always received hordes of direct marketing junk mail. Even more so since we bought a house. One night I thought about starting something profound like a “Green Advertising Initiative.” I ran it by Carrie and she said there are already companies like this in place but a paid membership is required. Why didn’t I already know this?
I Googled “do not mail list” and found the Direct Marketing Association has a list that you can register to be removed from certain mailing lists. I haven’t registered yet but plan to as soon as I’m done with this post. I am involved in internet marketing so I’m fully aware of my counterpart, direct marketing. DMA is in my mind, the authority on direct marketing best practices, they are a very reputable organization. I urge people to register with the DMA Do Not Mail List for starters to reduce the amount of junk mail you receive and reduce the impact of unwanted, excessive waste.
Green Dimes is another “stop the junk mail service.” They offer a few different packages to choose from, the basic package is free….they will actually pay you $1 to register and it is totally safe. You then have to do the data entry through your Green Dimes account to be removed from major junk mail lists. Purchase a package and Green Dimes will do it all for you.
There are several other do not mail list registrations, which like we said, require a paid membership. You’ll have to review each for yourself and decide whether you feel it’s safe to register with any given list, as it could result in even more junk mail if you register at the wrong place.
If you know of other safe “do not mail list registrations” please share/post the information here.
June 21st, 2008 Sammy
Unfortunately there are a lot of businesses out there claiming to be green when they really aren’t. As ECO conscious consumers, we need to make sure that the products and services we buy really are ECO friendly.
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June 10th, 2008 Sammy
I was reading the World News on USA Today.. “Report says China consumes twice its supply“
“China consumes more than double what its natural resources can supply…”The report also mentioned its effect on China and the rest of the world..
“In the next 10 to 20 years, China’s consumption will likely continue to pose threats to China’s own ecosystems and place increasing pressures on global biocapacity,”
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June 10th, 2008 Sammy
Will ECO RVing be the next step in travel?
We hadn’t even heard of ECO RVing until just this past weekend. Carrie was on the Mothering.com Forum and came across a thread for families who live on the road in their RV’s and 5th wheels. It’s kind of funny that Carrie stumbled upon ECO RVing because about a month ago I mentioned something about us buying an RV and just traveling around. Of course the cost of gas came up in the conversation and we didn’t really revisit the topic of ECO RVing until we came across a blog about a couple who converted their diesel RV into a veggie oil powered machine.
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June 9th, 2008 Sammy
According to Wikepedia, August 10th has been declared “International Biodiesel Day”.
Transesterification of a vegetable oil was conducted as early as 1853 by scientists E. Duffy and J. Patrick, many years before the first diesel engine became functional. Rudolf Diesel’s prime model, a single 10 ft (3 m) iron cylinder with a flywheel at its base, ran on its own power for the first time in Augsburg, Germany, on August 10, 1893.
I guess if we’re going to make special days for just about everything, heck, why not biodiesel?
