REUSABLE AND WASHABLE

Used it to sweep the floor. LOVE IT. Works better than landfill-clogging Swiffer. For the corners I used a broom. Even Swiffer can’t get the corners.

If you want to save money, get a cheap reusable and washable microfiber mop pad (fits on the Swiffer mop and others) at the dollar store for a buck and stop wasting your money on Swiffer pads. You’ll help the environment at the same time.

SHOCKING, TERRIFYING, EYE-OPENING

I’ve always been environment conscious, but seeing this makes you realized that it’s even worst than you think. All this, our little Earth could be gone in a blink of an eye. That means us too. No Earth, no us.

I can’t believe A LOT people still don’t believe global warming is real. IT’S REAL PEOPLE!

Glaciers are melting at alarming rates, animals and people are dying: Polar bears are drowning (bye bye ice they need), hurricanes, typhoons and other geological events are killings millions of people, droughts are killing other millions of people. It’s not a little rain here and little rain there; it’s too much rain at one time or none at all.

EVERYBODY NEEDS TO WATCH THIS MOVIE

PEOPLE WHO DON’T BELIEVE IN GLOBAL WARMING, WAKE UP AND SMELL OUR DYING EARTH, WAKE UP AND LOOK AT THE CLIMATE CRISIS WE ARE FACING AND CAN AVOID IF WE START TO MAKE MAJOR CHANGES NOW!

It affects us all. We could have 0 carbon emissions if we wanted too.

• Clean, renewable energy – all vehicles, all homes, buildings (work, schools, apartment, hotels, manufacturers, factories, etc.)
• Ban disposable items – use reusable, refillable, washable items
  For those items that we have to throw out: Floss, women’s hygiene products, diapers (the disposable ones), bathroom, facial tissues, napkins, paper towels, garbage, poop bags, dryer sheets, etc. (make them 100% post-consumer, biodegradable and compostable. And for women’s hygiene products and diapers – bleached without chlorine, and dryer sheets, use reusable/washable/biodegradable ones instead of disposable and ban disposable ones.
• Ban non-degradable plastics (bags, disposable tableware, containers, etc.) and only make and use biodegradable and compostable plastics.
• Ban non-recyclable items
• Make environment education in schools mandatory
• Use environment-friendly inks for all printers (at work, home, in schools, commercial printers, etc – ex: soy ink), and for pens (like corn oil)
• Support local farms, buy locally-grown produce (less emissions from transporting the produce), grow/buy organic
  Teach children to be environment-friendly from the day they are born
• Buy energy-efficient appliances, front-leading washing machines, hang clothes to dry instead of using the dryer
• Use fluorescent light bulbs – ban incandescent
• Walk, bike, roller blade, or take the bus –don’t drive
• Only make and sell 100% post-consumer items (printer paper, bathroom, facial tissues, paper towels, napkins – heck everything ever made!)
• Plant trees, donate money to a environmental organization to plant trees (for yourself and in somebody else’s name)
• Give environmental gifts
• AND SO MUCH MORE: It’s easy being green, just look online for A LOT more tips on how to reduce your ecological footprint.

IF WE ALL DO SOMETHING, WE CAN ALL WIN AND SAVE OUR PRECIOUS EARTH AND OURSELVES

Better for the environment. Even if they’re small, so many non-refillable pens are being thrown out. I’m not even sure if pens are recyclable (even if they are, reduce, reuse before recycle), but I put them in the recycle box anyways – now I won’t have to, I will use refillable ones when my other pens run out of ink. They make an impact on the environment just the same.

Refillable pens that I saw at Grand & Toy, in Ottawa:

• Sheaffer
• Papermate
• Pilot
• BeGreen
• Cross
• Parker
• Water Man
• Uni Ball
• Zebra
• Itoya

I looked for BIC refillable pens (I have like 7 or 8 old BIC Crystal pens – I don’t even remember where they came from). I wanted to buy the refills, but didn’t see any (and I know that they can be refilled, because I can removed the little ink container inside the pen and put it back in). So when I got home, I sent an email to BIC asking/suggesting them this:

I have old pens at home and I was wondering if they are refillable. I know that the little ink container can be removed; I�ve done it, so I imagine refills could be sold. I have 3 blue pens, 3 black, and 1 red. I am thinking of keeping 1 of each colour (it�s all I need) and just keep buying the refills (if you do sell refills, if not, I suggest you do. Also, are the pens recyclable? Or even other pens that you have, are they recyclable?). For the other pens that I have, I was thinking of buying the refills and donating all of them (I don�t see the point of throwing them out when they are still good and when somebody could use them).

Do you have other pens that are refillable? If not, why not? Why not make refillable pens that are better for the environment. Selling refillable pens would cost less to manufacture, use less water and energy, make less emissions and pollution, save valuable resources, and help reduce this serious threat that is global warming.

Other suggestions: Also make your products with 100% post-consumer recycled materials. That would be great. It uses products already used by consumers, then recycled and re-made into something new instead of using new materials, therefore, again, would cost less to manufacture, use less water and energy, make less emissions and pollution, save valuable resources, and help reduce this serious threat that is global warming. And how about also using environment-friendly ink? If you aren�t already.

Thanks for your help. It is greatly appreciated.

They haven’t responded yet.

I saw on the Ville de Gatineau’s website (I live in Gatineau, QC) that cereal bags are not recyclable (they are waxed or something like that). Until they’re recyclable and biodegradable, I’m going to buy my cereal in bulk with recyclable plastic bags (and hopefully biodegradable too), that I will reuse as poop bags afterward.

Even if cereal bags become recyclable/biodegradable, buying in bulk is still better for the environment because it uses less packaging: one reusable/bio bag instead of a box and a bag… and you can put more cereal in the one bag.

I usually shop at Bulk Barn for my bulk food needs.

I recently sent them an email, suggesting them to make their bags biodegradable (for the food and purchases). Hopefully they take it!

I bought the deodorant the first time in November 2005 and it lasted me 1 year and a few months. I bought a 2nd crystal deodorant in January 2007. It cost me 5.99$ CAD but it’s worth it. The only thing it contains is natural mineral salts (Ammonium Alum).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ammonium_alum

I bought the Pritt Correct-It Refillable Roller. I haven’t used it yet. I have to finish the BIC ones I have, that my fiancée bought a while ago. We don’t use dry correction tape often so they might last long, which in a way is good – they won’t get thrown out (recycling) so soon. Or I might donate them or give them to family members, instead of them buying a dry correction tape for nothing, since I already have 3.

When you shop at President’s Choice stores (Maxi, Provigo, Loblaws, Independant Grocers, etc.) with this bag, you get 50 PC Points for every bag used when you pay with your President’s Choice Credit Card.

• Made from 85% post-consumer recycled plastic soda and water bottles
• With weekly use of just one bag, each person can divert approximately 100 plastic bags from ending up in landfill sites each year
• It’s completely recyclable: When not reusable anymore (torn, too used up, etc.) you can just bring it back to the store and they’ll take care of it.

Check their website for more info:

http://www.presidentschoice.ca/FoodAndRecipes/HealthyLiving/Editorial.aspx/id/590

Buying fair trade is the way to, although it can be expensive at times. So when I buy a fair trade product, I try to manage it and use little of it, like this sugar. And I try to look for sales too.

I love seaweed! It taste so great!

It’s pretty good in soups (instant miso soups, canned tomato soup that I have to finish, etc.), in homemade salad dressings, etc.

According to the book The Macrobiotic Approach to Cancer by Michio Kushi, you should eat toasted Nori daily, as well as Kombu and Wakame. Arame and Hijiki several times per week. Agar-agar, Dulse, Irish moss, Mekabu, and Sea palm – Optional Use.

It’s so great but so expensive – I get the third degree from my fiancée every time I buy some. So I try not to eat too much, juts a little every time.

I ran out of my roasted Nori flakes and so when I made soup, I took a strip of a Nori sushi sheet and ripped in small pieces and added them to the soup, along with Wakame and Arame.