Green Tips for Going Back to School

My Yoga Online - Mid summer and the "Back to School" ads are flourishing. As you make plans for yourself and family to gather up supplies for returning to school, consider giving yourself or your children a gift of going a little more green. Investing in an aluminum beverage bottle is a great way to stamp out waste production, to set an example of environmental care, and to save a little money.

We are moving into an age where every little bit counts. By using an aluminum bottle, you can greatly reduce your consumption of plastic containers (water, juice, and other beverages). You can purchase your beverages in bulk which typically provides you with costs savings. You also avoid chemical contamination that appears to be increasingly more common with plastic containers.

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Google's Newest Green Resource

My Yoga Online - Adding a little more Karma and mindfulness to your life just got easier. The next time you need to search for something online, consider this new search engine resource. EcoSearch.org is the first search engine dedicated solely to environmental causes. Visitors to EcoSearch.org can search just as they would from Google.

The results come from Google, and Google shares a portion of their advertising revenue with EcoSearch. EcoSearch is a nonprofit corporation that donates 100% of its profits to environmental causes such as donating to charities that focus on the environment. They have already donated to charities including the National Resource Defense Council, Heal the Bay, Rainforest Alliance, TreePeople, Healthy Child Healthy World, and others. You can even suggest new charities to them. So, whenever you search, EcoSearch, and help to improve our environment.

Best Way to Use EcoSearch.org
Users should either set their homepage to EcoSearch.org, or add EcoSearch as their default search engine in their search bar by clicking the link on the EcoSearch homepage.

9 Tips to Make Your Office Greener

My Yoga Online - There are a number of ways to cut back on waste at the office. Here are a few ideas:

Save Energy and Water
• Use the stairs instead of the elevator for short trips to save electricity
• Turn off lights and computer equipment at the end of the day to save energy
• Turn off taps completely to avoid wasting water from dripping taps

Save Paper (saving paper saves energy too)
• Set your printer and photocopier to double-sided to save paper
• Edit documents on your computer to save paper
• Always recycle used paper

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Banking Made Green

The change in lifestyle required to bring society to a more sustainable state for the environment often feels like an overwhelming task, but in fact, small adjustments and simple acts of awareness can collectively contribute to vast changes and improvements. Some of these small, easy changes can be applied to how we conduct banking tasks and transactions.

How often do people go to a bank machine, withdraw a few $20 bills, and then select to view their account balance? They view their paper statement and then toss it in the garbage. This action occurs daily by millions of people resulting in a massive waste of paper and energy.



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Shopping For Back to School The Environmental Way

Every year, parents spend millions of dollars on back-to-school supplies. This year, be sure to shop green. Remember that many thrift stores carry school supplies that will cost you a fraction of retail prices.

Avoid excess packaging. A large percentage of solid waste stream is the result of unnecessary packaging. When given a choice, choose the product that is sensible, not over-packaged, and reuse or recycle packaging.

Look for green labels that let you know the product is certified as environmentally friendly.

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Clothes Shopping For Sustainable Living

• Think about where your clothes come from. Clothing made under fair-wage and labour practices will usually advertise it.

• Wear organic. Though cotton is marketed as clean, fresh, and natural, conventional varieties are anything but. It takes a third of a pound of chemical fertilizers and pesticides READ MORE...

Sustainable Seafood

An estimated 90% of all large, predatory fish are already gone from the world's oceans.

It is so important that we conserve what remains in the oceans, and harvest and consume seafood in a sustainable manner.

To help consumers and restaurants make more informed choices when selecting the seafood they consume or serve, the Vancouver, British Columbia Aquarium has developed programs to help identify sustainable seafood choices.

What does sustainable seafood mean?

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