A blog that attempts to provide you with useful examples and tips that could make a large positive ecological impact, although they are seemingly minor, quick and easy changes to your daily routine.

Welcome to Ecotipsforlife.com

Ecology: meaning "study of house or living relations"

What is EcoTipsForLife.com not?
Ecotipsforlife.com is not a save the planet type website. I think we can be fairly certain the planet will save and balance itself out with or without our intervention and/or meddling.

We as a human species? Not so certain. We might or might not survive our planet's balancing act. We must find our own balance, awareness and a way to co-exists with the planet in order to survive.

Ok, what is EcoTipsForLife.com then?
EcoTipsForLife.com is a simple blog with the intent to show you that you can make a large impact by making simple changes that could even save you time in your daily routine. Browse the site and see for yourself.

For more background feel free to click here to visit the About page

Good luck and happy contributing!

Earth day 2011

April 21st, 2011 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)

Like I mentioned before Earth Day has become as much of a marketing tools as it is a cause.

SInce it’s inception however (checkout the first poster here) many good things have come from it and organisations like the Earth Day Network (earthday.org) that grew out of that first Earth Day have done a lot of good things.

Even though April 22nd is the official Earth Day it is, in my opinion, important to look at the remaining 364 days of the year for actions that cause permanent change, which is evident by the year-round domestic and international programs being run by organizations like the Earth Day Network.

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Green Trance: Post-consumer Waste Recycling

April 6th, 2010 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)

Wikipedia: Post-consumer waste – Post-consumer waste is a waste type produced by the end consumer of a material stream; that is, where the waste-producing use did not involve the production of another product 1

This includes but is not limited to the following items: Aluminum cans, packaging (carton, plastic, etc.) Junk mail, other paper product like office paper waste, food items (kitchen scraps, food past it’s ‘use by’ date, etc.), metals (electronics, cars, etc).2 In other words any product that can be recycled after it’s been used and in most cases (unfortunately) would be discarded (in contrast to pre-consumer waste. These are products that have never reached the end-user/consumer consisting of ‘not up-to-standard’ products that would usually be discarded but have never been used 3).

Usually a product will state: this has been made with XX % of post-consumer materials, for example, Paper towels. If they have been made with an X amount of post-consumer materials it might mean that they recycled used office paper, cardboard and used paper products to create the new paper towels. Examples of this can be found in many products like Seventh Generation, Green Forest, Small Steps, and many more (nice list, for paper/kitchen towels specifically, can be found here )

So that’s it, the first post in the “Green Trance” series. Feel free to comment, add or leave remarks, they are always welcome.

1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Post-consumer_waste
2 http://www.oregonmetro.gov/index.cfm/go/by.web/id=3369
3 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pre_consumer

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Tip #22: Donate, don’t trash

February 12th, 2010 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)

Budget: no costs and possible tax deduction
Time required: Depends on proximity of donation centers
Impact potential: Waste reduction, reusing, community improved

Tip: Next time you are going through your closet and thinking of discarding clothes that for whatever reason you don’t want anymore, consider donating them instead of simply trashing them.

Your discarded clothes could be the find of the century for another person. Many places in the US (and around the world) have donation containers and places like the Goodwill centers.

Some donations centers can even provide you with donation receipts which can get you tax deductions, that in the end even give you financial benefit.

Especially in these harder economic times, donating useful items like clothes (or furniture, electronics, appliances) could be a great help to someone in need.

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Tip #21: ‘Tis the season to recycle

December 23rd, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)

Budget: any
Time required: Completely up to you
Impact potential: Waste reduction.

Tip: In this season of consumer celebration most people tend to go overboard waste more then regularly.

Here is one aspect of this celebration where we can save a little waste:

And a few various tree recycling sources:

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Pictures from the Florida Renewable Energy Expo 24 Oct.

October 25th, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)

The expo included solar exhibitions, sustainable living booths, local farms, CSA’s and much more.

Here are some pictures from the event:

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