Tag: Dry Cleaning

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  Seven Green Sins of the City: Ben Jervey & NY Daily News Help the Earth

  Eco-consultant and author Ben Jervey (The Big Green Apple: Your Guide to Eco-Friendly Living in New York City ) offers some eco-friendly suggestions to the New York Daily News. While we don't see anyone's current missteps as sins, we do heartily

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  CO2 Dry-cleaning v. Organic: War of Green Words (Video)

  Last week we spotted Green Apple Cleaners in Gossip Girl's Second Iife sim, now in this local New York City news segment,Green Apple Cleaners CEO David Kistner takes a stand on standards for eco-friendly cleaning for our clothes: any method using perc

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  Spotted: Green Apple Cleaners in Gossip Girl Second Life Sim (Video)

  When the producers of the Gossip Girl "machinima" videos needed to create a dry cleaners set in Second Life, I suggested that they green the virtual store. The television show and its sister Second Life sim

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  Father's Day Gift Guide

  He's a good sport no matter what we deliver -- gamely wearing that outlandish tie for years to come. Yet -- wouldn't it be nice to gift something easy on the earth that actually makes his eyes

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  Are there green dry cleaners?

  Contrary to what its name implies, dry cleaning involves washing clothes in a liquid solvent to remove stains. In about 85 percent of dry cleaning shops this solvent is perchloroethylene (or "perc"), a chemical that the Environmental Protection

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  Getting Ready for Earth Day: Green Cleaning

  Cleaning products are everywhere in our homes, and get everywhere when we use them; on our dishes, countertops, floors, hands...the list goes on and on. They're so pervasive that we follow this general rule: if you don't want it on your skin or in your