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Latest blog posts from Earthfinds: Green Solutions

Full Spectrum Light Bulbs
Did you realize that the regular old light bulb is out of style? Did you realize that you can hardly find any in the stores as they are being phased out? There’s a new law, part of a massive governmental energy-saving program that will completely phase out the use of those energy-gobbling...
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Published 7 days ago

Sorghum Day
The fourth Saturday in October is Sorghum Day in Wewoka Oklahoma. You can count on it every year. The road to Wewoka was lonely. Why? There were tons of people already in Wewoka for the annual festival. Seems we were a tad bit late arriving.  So much so that parking ‘might’ have been an...
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Published a month ago

GM Goes Green With It’s Recycling Network
GM announced in September that by 2011 that at least half of it’s major manufacturing plants would become landfill-free.  That’s about 80 of the operations that will eventually recycle or reuse all of their production waste.  That’s a lot! GM’s landfill-free plants will ship waste...
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Published 2 months ago

ATM Receipts
I recently read where that if everyone in the US refused their ATM receipts that it would save a roll of paper more than 2,000,000,000 feet long. Enough to circle the world 15 times. But, how would we balance our checkbooks? Social Bookmarking
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Published 2 months ago

Pint Size Mercedes
It’s teeny, it’s tiny, it’s extremely fuel efficient. It’s a Mercedes? It’s kind of cute, in it’s own way, and it’s everything environmentally friendly people want in a car, including a fancy name, but does a pint size car belong to a big name like Mercedes? The smart Fortwo’s...
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Published 2 months ago

Recyclable Plates Made From Compost?
Remember going camping â€" and tossing your paper plate into the campfire? There’s a new recyclable plate out â€" and it’s compostable! Verterra.com is where you find them.  Now be ready for sticker shock, they’re about 89 cents a piece!  You’ve got to really be into composting in order...
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Published 2 months ago

Saving Money Around the Office
Short list of ways to save money around the office and help save earth’s resources at the same time. Turn off lights when not in the room. Particularly little used areas like meeting rooms, conference rooms, break rooms, empty offices. Replace burnt out light bulbs with new compact...
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Published 2 months ago

NEW Biodegradable Diapers
When disposable diapers first became available to the general public, mothers everywhere ran out and bought them. And  they continued to buy them for years, decades even. But what happens to those plastic monstrosities, to the tune of 50 million every single day? They’re all lingering in...
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Published 2 months ago

What did I do that was green today?
Not much, but I thought about being green in everything I did. Instead of using a new box for an Ebay sale, I recycled an envelope box to ship it in.  It’s sturdy, the item fit and I saved a new priority box. I returned a Netflix movie.  That’s one less movie I didn’t buy and ultimately...
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Published 2 months ago

What’s for Dinner?
The more I try to simplify my life - the busier it gets! I’ve been having a hard time deciding what’s for dinner that fits into my budget and time constraints. I’ve tried making dinner from scratch, and I mean scratch. In fact I used to do this every single day, back when there were kids...
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Published 2 months ago