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Archives for December 2008

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Negawatts

by Louise December 24th, 2008 | Easy Ideas, Household Hints
What is a negawatt? Technically, negawatts do not exist. It is a term that was coined by Amory Lovins, supposedly originating from a typo. It means what you would guess: negative megawatts. Essentially, it's the energy you save, a megawatt that wasn't spent that might have been.

"Using negawatts" is said to be one of the major ways to reduce energy usage. How can you use negawatts? Any time that you choose to do/use something more efficiently, it is considered as generating negawatts. Here are some ways to "generate" negawatts:

  • Do not use standby or sleep for your computers when you leave
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Eco-Friendly Christmas Gifts

by Valerie Mae Diola December 23rd, 2008 | Easy Ideas

Christmas is a time for giving, sharing and exchanging gifts. But can you be eco-friendly this Christmas season? The answer is yes. You can be eco-friendly by giving eco-friendly gifts. Below are some eco-friendly gift ideas and some products I like to give and also receive.


Recycled Beaded Jewelries


Who says gifts should be brand new? If you are creative, there are lots of gifts you can still recycle like beaded

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Want to Win $25?

by Michele December 19th, 2008 | Contest
In the spirit of the holiday season, Wasabi Media Group is launching the Doubly Good December Contest.  This contest will reward one reader and one writer with a cash prize of 25 dollars each.

In order to qualify for the reader's prize, all you need to do is have a comment published* for any article posted during the month of December.  Comments will be accepted for this contest through January 7th.  One comment will be chosen randomly, and the author of that comment will receive $25!

So, start reading, and submitting comments.  The more comments you submit,
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Being Green with the Dogs

by Valerie Mae Diola December 9th, 2008 | Easy Ideas, Outdoor Ideas, Pollution

For those of you who have dogs at home, where do your dogs relieve themselves, and where do you put their waste? Don’t you know that instead of throwing your dogs’ feces in the garbage, you can make fertilizer out of it?


We are renting a house with a spacious yard full of fruit-bearing trees and grass. My dogs can’t access the yard easily because there’s a bamboo fence. So, what they usually do is they relieve themselves in the grassy area of my garden which is

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Being Green Can Make You Live Longer

by Valerie Mae Diola December 2nd, 2008 | Easy Ideas

Many of you may wonder why being green can make our lives longer. Well, my great grandmother proved it. She died at the ripe old age of 94. However, I can’t remember lots of memories with her because she did not lived with us. She lived on a farm and did not use any vehicle for transportation back and forth to the farm. She walked and did some gardening a lot, too. The last memory I have of her was when I was still in grade school and she visited us in the

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