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LittleBits CEO Monica Rodgers has contributed yet another great green tip for our eco-tips project! Monica's video shows how children can enjoy reusing old paper, cardboard and art supplies to create their very own recycled paper. Read on for a complete list of materials and the step-by-step process!
Little Bits Founder and CEO Monica Rodgers shares a great tip on teaching children the value of composting and incorporating it into their weekly schedule! To teach and remind her children to do their "little bit" she has created a group of characters called the Earth Savers. In Monica'svideo tip, part of our TreeHugger Tips project, we see how her children are inspired by the characters Monica has created and that each of them have their own day to take out the composting!
If you're trying to live an eco-friendly life, you probably know it can be helpful to hear from others that are doing the same. (That's probably why you're reading this on TreeHugger right now.) Sharing the tricks and tips to cutting your waste and making green choices is a must. It saves you the trouble of trial and error and helps you get green even faster. That's one of the reasons we started our TreeHugger Tips series - to allow readers to share their tips for going green.
As technology advances, it will only become more easier to share ones tips and connect with experts to learn even more. In a previous TreeHugger Video Tip , Max Gladwell showed us how to use the "green stream" on the social network site Twitter to share what it is you're doing that's green. If you're new to Twitter or don't know about the #greenstream, be sure to check that video out. In this new video, Rob from Max Gladwell demonstrates how one can use a webcam and internet connection to produce their own green talk show.
Missy Higgins searches for the most environmentally-friendly form of transportation in car-happy Los Angeles. The singer-songwriter just moved from Australia and while she is getting used to the public transit system in LA we suggest using a bicycle to get around. If Missy does want to get a hybrid we can help with our How to Go Green guide on Hybrid Cars.
How do you get around in LA or your city or town? Send us your video tips for our TreeHugger Video Tips project!
In Ben Harper's TreeHugger Tip he poetically points to the fact that to make a difference on a global level it has to be made on the individual level. Harper suggests turning off water while brushing your teeth, not watering the grass every second of the day, and turning off the lights are easy and hardly inconvenient compromises.
One unfortunately common misconception about "going green" is that doing so means drastically changing ones life or abolishing all luxuries. While a crucial part about living an eco-friendly lifestyle is reducing ones consumption and therefore minimizing ones waste, one thing I love most about trying to live a sustainable life is noticing how doing something the "green" way is often just the smarter way. Using rain barrels to collect rain and reuse around your house is a perfect example of this.
In this TreeHugger Tip, musician and activist Jack Johnson, talks about how he's installed a rain collection system and how he's used it to teach his children about conservation.
How do you go green? What do you do to be eco-friendly? Are there tips you have to share? For the past month those are the questions we've been asking our friends and readers to answer in short videos as part of our TreeHugger Tips series. We've received several great tips. We've seen Gary Vaynerchuk talk about carpooling, Craig Newmark talk about using less stuff, Ludacris reminded us to use less water and Jonathan at Chelsea Green showed us how he gets rid of pesky fruit flies without lots of chemicals. There are lots more videos you can see on the TreeHugger Video Tips page.
As part of our ongoing TreeHugger Tips project our very own Christine Lepisto has provided us with a great eco-tip on her small refrigerator. Not only did she choose a size that works for her lifestyle but she also fills it with her favorite bio-foods; milk, cheese, eggs and yogurt!
Angela Lindvall co-host of Planet Green’s Alter Eco is making sustainability sexy with her green tip on composting.
Angela is also the founder of Collage, a non-profit, multi-platform communication platform, that brings together ideas on issues on the environment, health, science and art and presents them across a variety of entertainment formats. The fashion model applies her savvy sense of style to modern eco-living in her interview with TreeHugger's Meaghan O'Neill.
Submit your own eco-tip to our TreeHugger Video Tips project!...
While Mike Rowe’s tip was nothing dirty, compared to his downright dirty job as host of the Discovery Channel's Dirty Jobs, he does bring us back to the basics of living green. His show explores work beyond the monotony of the 9 to 5 and takes his viewers into the world of cleaning up toxic bird poop to the artificial insemination of a horse.
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Our very own Meaghan O'Neill, co-author of Ready, Set, Green, interviewes Boise Thomas on the "green" carpet at the launch of the Planet Green. Boise is building an eco-oasis with his wife in Kansas and hopes to educate people about the importance of sustainability.
While you might not agree with his tip on how to control the population he does raise the issue of the ever-growing population and how we might go about reducing it.
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How do you get rid of fruit flies?
Recently, I've been suffering from a fruit fly invasion of impressive magnitude. And despite a few attempts at ridding myself of these flies, I haven't been able to get things under control. I'll swat and kill as many flies as I can see, but still the next time I turn around there are even more flies gently fluttering about my kitchen, in what I can only assume is some sort of fruit fly taunting ritual. How are there more? I've even begun to fear that these are possibly zombie fruit flies, returned from the dead to haunt my dreams and attack my organic bananas. I'm scared. Okay, I'm not really scared, but it is driving me a little crazy.
That's why I was so pleased to see this new TreeHugger Video Tip sent in from Jonathan over at Chelsea Green. If you don't have them or you already know how to kill fruit flies, this tip may not be new to you, but I wanted to share it for those that may be unaware. In the video, he shares a simple method he uses to rid himself of pesky fruit flies. More on his method and our other TreeHugger TIps after the jump....
You might have heard of Ludacris from his upcoming show, Battle Ground Earth, on Planet Green" or maybe because he is a three-time Grammy Award-winning rapper. Either way, I am sure you haven’t heard his latest green-tip. Ludacris jokes around with our very own Meaghan O’Neill at the launch of Planet Green and shares a tip to save water while using the most frequented room in the house; the bathroom!...
Tomm Stanley is the author of The Big Tree at George and Charlotte's House and Going Solar. He has provided us with some great green tips thus far and we are happy he has submitted another video for our TreeHugger Tips project. His tip helps with making the heating and cooling of your household more efficient. ...
SuChin Pak, host of The G Word on Planet Green , spoke with TreeHugger Editor, Meaghan O'Neill before the Planet Green launch party and shared one of her TreeHugger Tips.
If you can't view the video above, her tip is that she washes her hair with the same stuff she washes her floors with!
Find out what kind of soap she uses and some other places she puts it to use after the jump.
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Craigslist Founder, Craig Newmark on his TreeHugger HabitsCraig Newmark, Founder of Craigslist, was kind enough to send in a short video for our TreeHugger Tips series explaining the small things he does out of concern for the environment. He touches on conserving resources by using less stuff and reusing what he can.
If you can't view the video, there's a transcript after the jump.
Some environmentalists deride small steps such as these as ineffective and even suggest they are counter-productive, but I think small steps can and do make a difference. Craig trying to use less stuff, Gary Vaynerchuk carpooling or Tomm Stanley making his fridge more efficient may not be radical or representative of the swift changes in government policy or consumer behavior some - myself included - would like to see, but wouldn't we rather have people at least trying to do what they can to make a difference, as opposed to not trying at all?
What do you think?...
Tomm Stanley is the author of The Big Tree at George and Charlotte's House and Going Solar and we are happy he has submitted yet another green tip for our TreeHugger Tips project. Tomm's tip helps your refrigerator maintain its normal operating temperature when opening and closing the door. Remember to reuse your plastic water and soda bottles! ...
Tommy Lee's name is departing from being synonymous with Pam Anderson and the Mötley Crüe to his role in the Green movement. His most recent venture, co-hosting Planet Green'sBattleground Earth with Ludacris is just one of the ways he is "going green."
Lee is becoming a Vegetarian and our very own, Meaghan O'Neill, interviews him on the green carpet, at the launch of Planet Green in L.A., gaining a bit of insight on the beginning stages of Lee's new diet. What Lee may or may not know is that cutting the meat could actually curb the affects of global warming.
Lee's tip is just one of our many TreeHugger Video Tips....
Tomm Stanley is the author of The Big Tree at George and Charlotte's House. This book inspires both children and adults to appreciate the importance of their surrounding environment. Tomm is also the author of Going Solar which is both a historical and modern discussion of solar energy. Tomm has sent in another great video tip for our TreeHugger Tips project on an easy way to better irrigate your garden!
View Tomm's first video tip here. ...
If I wasn't fortunate enough to work from home, I'd certainly try to work near enough to be able to ride my bike to the office everyday. Saving money on gasoline, getting some early-morning exercise and breathing some fresh air on the way to the office is great. Though, as nice as it sounds, there are some potential downsides to biking to the office, namely the sweat.
With those problems in mind, Dorothee from EarthFirst sends in this tip for our TreeHugger Video Tips series. In it, she demonstrates how-to quickly 'freshen up' after a ride to the office. ...
We are happy to share this TreeHugger tip from Tomm Stanley as part of our TreeHugger Video Tips project.
Tomm is the author of The Big Tree at George and Charlotte's House. This book educates, while simultaneously entertaining, both children and adults in the importance of their surrounding environment. He focuses on the tree, it's roots, leaves, branches, as a source for this exploration. Tomm is also the author of Going Solar which is both a historical and modern discussion of solar energy. In a non-threatening way, Tomm informs the reader of the ways in which the sun is a vital tool in the present and future....
Last week I wrote about a new project we’re starting here at TreeHugger – collecting all the great eco-tips from our readers. So far, we’ve shared three with you. Gary Vaynerchuk talked about carpooling. Lee Welles explained how it’s important to play with kids outdoors to help instill a connection with nature in the younger generations. TreeHugger’s very own Lloyd Alter shared his tip for preventing toilet paper clogging his composting toilet and we’ve got more great tips that we’ll be sharing with you over the next few days.
This eco-tip comes to us from Max Gladwell, a site devoted to “social media and green living”. In the video above, he walks through the greenstream channel on Twitter.com ...
All the TreeHuggers have been asked to make a video tip for our new Video Tip project - readers are highly-encouraged to send in their eco-tips, as well. In our last phone meeting one said "now I will finally get to see what everyone looks like!" To which I thought, not if I can help it, I am going to shoot it really badly without lights so that I am completely backlit and almost impossible to see. Which is what I have done, in an explanation of how I dealt with the problem of too much toilet paper in my composting toilet, without making everyone go all Sheryl Crow.
UPDATE: Scott at Envirolet asked why I said it was flooded; he had not heard of that ever happening. Over the winter, the snow knocked over the top of the vent stack and the toilet filled with water through the roof and the vent stack. I did not find out until I went to empty the toilet as I do at the beginning of the season and it was quite a mess, but had nothing to do with the operation of the unit. ...
Lee Welles is the author of the award-winning Gaia Girls book series and was kind enough to send in a video tip for our TreeHugger Tips project.
If you missed my first post from yesterday inviting readers to send in their eco-tips or the first eco-tip we received, by wine guru, Gary Vaynerchuk , be sure to check both of those out.
We're hoping that you and all of our readers, will send in short video clips of yourselves sharing what you do to help the environment. So many people want to 'go green', it seems like we should all share what we know and have learned so that others won't have to reinvent the wheel. So what are you doing that is eco-friendly? You'll find instructions for sending in your own video and a list of all the tips we've received so far on the video tips page.
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If there's one thing the Internet is great for, it's pooling the collective wisdom of the masses. And if there's one thing we want to do at TreeHugger, it's bring all that insight together. Since being green means a lot of different things to a lot of different people, and since there are myriad facets to living an eco-savvy lifestyle, we're asking readers to tell us how they do what they do.
Do you flush your toilets with rainwater runoff? Make your own biodiesel from fried turkey grease? Bring your own containers for takeout? Maybe you've just begun carrying a canvas bag or growing your own veggies. From the banal to the extreme, we want you to lay it on us, so we can share it with the world. (Okay, the blogosphere.) We'll be posting all the great tips for going green here.
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