Favorite Links Better World Club www.betterworldclub.com is dedicated to balancing economic goals with social and environmental responsibility. We support a cleaner environment and alternative modes of transportation. We provide our customers with high quality, good value and environmentally sensitive products and services. We act as an advocate on behalf of the consumer and demonstrate our social and environmental commitment by donating an amount equal to 1% of our annual revenues toward environmental cleanup and advocacy. CivilizedNation.com CivilizedNation.com is dedicated to finding and reporting stories of sustainable success from around the world. Our mission is to show REAL, FUNCTIONING ENVIRONMENTALLY-SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS to problems that face us in the 21st century. We believe that by describing SOUND, ECOLOGICALLY COMPATIBLE models of success, no matter how small, people from around the world can learn from that success and build upon it for the benefit of their own organizations, communities, and cities thus leading to a more socially and ecologically responsible world. Cleanup.Org Making Every Day Earth Day - No matter where you live across the US, just enter your zip code and you'll find a wealth of information in your local community about recycling information, buying recycled products, household hazardous waste, kids' section, energy conservation, composting, dozens of other resources. Container-Recycling.org CRI is a non-profit organization that studies and promotes policies and practices that shift the social and environmental costs associated with manufacturing, recycling, and disposal of container and packaging waste from government and taxpayers to producers and consumers. CRI plays a vital role in educating policy makers, government officials and the general public regarding the social and environmental impacts of the production and disposal of no-deposit, no-return beverage containers and the need for producers to take responsibility for their wasteful packaging. DEP Use shredded newspaper for animal bedding. Dolphin Blue Provides environmentally responsible office supplies, contributing to a sustainable planet. Every purchase made on products provided by Dolphin Blue creates a sustainable world. We offer all types of office and printing papers, envelopes of all sizes, remanufactured toner cartridges, refurbished laser printers, and many other desktop and office filing supplies. Earth Murals Project A Global Kids environmental awareness project dedicated to involving children in all 50 states and across the globe in the creation of murals that focus on recycling and giving back to the earth. The project encourages youth participation in recycling, tree planting, community clean ups, and promotes literacy. Eco-Artware Gifts for him, her, the home and business from eco-friendly materials by 30 innovative craftsmen. EcoFirms A non profit eco activists website that aims to connect eco friendly companies, organizations, and individuals operating in US and Canada for the sake of cleaner and safer environment in North America. E/The Environmental Magazine A source for news and features on a wide range of environmental topics and green living tips. FREECYCLE GREATGREENGOODS www.greatgreengoods.com - They scour the internet to find the best in eco-friendly products for the green consumer. Their products generally fall under two main categories. Products that help you live lighter on the earth or products made out of recycled or sustainable materials. POCONO FREECYCLE The concept behind Freecycle is simple: you have something you no longer need (a couch, a crib, a CD, a computer) and you wish to "recycle" it rather than throw it in the landfill. Or you are looking for a specific item (a couch, a crib, a CD, a computer), and you don't mind getting it for free. Pocono Freecycle is the place where you can post notices about the items you'd like to give away as well as things that you need. The only catch is that it has to be FREE! Green Living Now www.greenlivingnow.com is a small, family owned, organic and natural products online store. GreenSense Resources for Sustainable Living Easy access to everything you need to live in harmony with the Earth - Learn how people are changing their lives and creating richer, more sustainable communities. Discover green crafts, recipes, simple living, frugality, recycling, wild foods, organic gardening, gentle parenting, self-directed learning, personal growth, meditation, alternative health, and environmental action. Find green, earth-friendly, products of all kinds, handmade crafts, recycled art and gifts. Habitat For Humanity Ask your building contractor to donate excess building materials to organizations like Habitat For Humanity or others instead of landfilling usable construction debris. Please call George Kerrick in Monroe County Habitat for Humanity at 570-476-9846. Kid-At-Art The Imagination Factory is an award-winning art and crafts site for kids, parents, and teachers. Visitors learn how to make art using easy to obtain solid waste as a source of free materials. Recycled Art Projects can be found at: Girl Scout/Brownie Badge Matcher Projects can be found at: Mustang Alley A non-profit horse rescue located in eastern TN, dedicated to the safe rescue, rehabilitation and placement of abused, neglected, unwanted & slaughter-bound equines of all kinds. Natural Tree Furniture "Balancing Nature with Creative Imagination!" Reclaimed, naturally felled trees handcrafted by artisan Ray Smith. PRC - Pennsylvania Resources Council An abundance of information on recycling & preserving our environment. Simple Living Network Providing tools and examples for those who are serious about learning to live a more conscious, simple, healthy and restorative lifestyle. Sustainable Group Offers recycled binders, cardboard binders, recycled folders and green office supplies. Tire Playground - Maryland A total of about 7,000 scrap tires went into these projects. About 1,000 scrap tires were used in the construction of the playgrounds and the equivalent of over 6,000 tires were used as cover material under some play equipment. Used Cardboard Boxes This company sells quality used and new cardboard boxes for moving and shipping. An earth-friendly company providing simple and convenient delivery of moving kits, moving boxes and shipping boxes at discounted prices. Color of Horses Unique and colorful gifts, jewelry, arts and crafts and wearable art for horse lovers! Always searching for eco-friendly, fair-trade gifts celebrating horses. DISCLAIMER: These referrals are offered as a service of Close the Loop and do not constitute an endorsement of the above-mentioned companies. Close the Loop, LLC assumes no responsibility for the actions of or services provided by these companies. |
What You Can Do... Ceramic Mugs Bring your own ceramic coffee mug to meetings or the quick markets and ask if you can refill that instead of using a Styrofoam cup. Cleanup Use cloth towels instead of paper, they can be used again & again. Donate Clean up & donate your gently used toys to a charitable group or hospital. Bring old books you don't want to your library, check with your local library first to see if they'll accept them. Grocery Shopping When you go shopping, bring your own cloth bag or recycled grocery bags. Most grocery stores pay you a few cents to use your own bags. Congratulations to Kinsley's ShopRite in Brodheadsville, PA for purchasing new shopping carts made from recycled plastics! Mosaic Save broken & chipped plates, tiles & stained glass to use in surface decorating something old with a beautiful mosaic. Paper Recycling Save paper. Use both sides of every sheet or cut it up in small squares for note paper. Rag Bag Keep a rag bag of old, torn clothes and have a supply of rags to help clean house or use for messy projects. Refill Ask retailers to sell products in refillable containers. Repair Ease the burdon on the environment by fixing broken toys & other items instead of discarding. Reuse Take packaging "peanuts" to pack & ship businesses for reuse. Six-Pack Rings Before you toss six-pack rings into the garbage, cut all the circles with scissors so animals and birds can't get caught in them. Slate Save old SLATE roofing shingles for people to paint on. Tire Swing Hang an old tire swing for your kids, they'll love it! Make sure to drill a hole in the bottom, so the rain water can escape. Supervise them when swinging so they don't hit the tree trunk! Ouch! Whoops Paint Most paint stores have mixed tint paints that are new, excellent quality paints, but didn't meet the customers exact color needs. You can buy gallons of this paint for a few dollars and complete a small room, use for craft projects, use as an undercoating, etc. Call Jim at Miller's Paint & Wallpaper Store in Brodheadsville, PA at 570-992-6699 Other Money Saving Tips: If you have an activated CELL PHONE, you can unsubscribe to the service and they legally MUST keep your phone active for 911 calls only. You won't be able to call anyone other than 911 for emergency calls, and you'll save money by getting no monthly cell phone bills!! Check it out in your area first! (If you would like to donate old cell phones to people in abusive situations, for them to have 911 access, call Woman's Resources in Monroe County, PA at (570)421-4200. |
Favorite Links Better World Club www.betterworldclub.com is dedicated to balancing economic goals with social and environmental responsibility. We support a cleaner environment and alternative modes of transportation. We provide our customers with high quality, good value and environmentally sensitive products and services. We act as an advocate on behalf of the consumer and demonstrate our social and environmental commitment by donating an amount equal to 1% of our annual revenues toward environmental cleanup and advocacy. CivilizedNation.com CivilizedNation.com is dedicated to finding and reporting stories of sustainable success from around the world. Our mission is to show REAL, FUNCTIONING ENVIRONMENTALLY-SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS to problems that face us in the 21st century. We believe that by describing SOUND, ECOLOGICALLY COMPATIBLE models of success, no matter how small, people from around the world can learn from that success and build upon it for the benefit of their own organizations, communities, and cities thus leading to a more socially and ecologically responsible world. Cleanup.Org Making Every Day Earth Day - No matter where you live across the US, just enter your zip code and you'll find a wealth of information in your local community about recycling information, buying recycled products, household hazardous waste, kids' section, energy conservation, composting, dozens of other resources. Container-Recycling.org CRI is a non-profit organization that studies and promotes policies and practices that shift the social and environmental costs associated with manufacturing, recycling, and disposal of container and packaging waste from government and taxpayers to producers and consumers. CRI plays a vital role in educating policy makers, government officials and the general public regarding the social and environmental impacts of the production and disposal of no-deposit, no-return beverage containers and the need for producers to take responsibility for their wasteful packaging. DEP Use shredded newspaper for animal bedding. Dolphin Blue Provides environmentally responsible office supplies, contributing to a sustainable planet. Every purchase made on products provided by Dolphin Blue creates a sustainable world. We offer all types of office and printing papers, envelopes of all sizes, remanufactured toner cartridges, refurbished laser printers, and many other desktop and office filing supplies. Earth Murals Project A Global Kids environmental awareness project dedicated to involving children in all 50 states and across the globe in the creation of murals that focus on recycling and giving back to the earth. The project encourages youth participation in recycling, tree planting, community clean ups, and promotes literacy. Eco-Artware Gifts for him, her, the home and business from eco-friendly materials by 30 innovative craftsmen. EcoFirms A non profit eco activists website that aims to connect eco friendly companies, organizations, and individuals operating in US and Canada for the sake of cleaner and safer environment in North America. E/The Environmental Magazine A source for news and features on a wide range of environmental topics and green living tips. FREECYCLE GREATGREENGOODS www.greatgreengoods.com - They scour the internet to find the best in eco-friendly products for the green consumer. Their products generally fall under two main categories. Products that help you live lighter on the earth or products made out of recycled or sustainable materials. POCONO FREECYCLE The concept behind Freecycle is simple: you have something you no longer need (a couch, a crib, a CD, a computer) and you wish to "recycle" it rather than throw it in the landfill. Or you are looking for a specific item (a couch, a crib, a CD, a computer), and you don't mind getting it for free. Pocono Freecycle is the place where you can post notices about the items you'd like to give away as well as things that you need. The only catch is that it has to be FREE! Green Living Now www.greenlivingnow.com is a small, family owned, organic and natural products online store. GreenSense Resources for Sustainable Living Easy access to everything you need to live in harmony with the Earth - Learn how people are changing their lives and creating richer, more sustainable communities. Discover green crafts, recipes, simple living, frugality, recycling, wild foods, organic gardening, gentle parenting, self-directed learning, personal growth, meditation, alternative health, and environmental action. Find green, earth-friendly, products of all kinds, handmade crafts, recycled art and gifts. Habitat For Humanity Ask your building contractor to donate excess building materials to organizations like Habitat For Humanity or others instead of landfilling usable construction debris. Please call George Kerrick in Monroe County Habitat for Humanity at 570-476-9846. Kid-At-Art The Imagination Factory is an award-winning art and crafts site for kids, parents, and teachers. Visitors learn how to make art using easy to obtain solid waste as a source of free materials. Recycled Art Projects can be found at: Girl Scout/Brownie Badge Matcher Projects can be found at: Mustang Alley A non-profit horse rescue located in eastern TN, dedicated to the safe rescue, rehabilitation and placement of abused, neglected, unwanted & slaughter-bound equines of all kinds. Natural Tree Furniture "Balancing Nature with Creative Imagination!" Reclaimed, naturally felled trees handcrafted by artisan Ray Smith. PRC - Pennsylvania Resources Council An abundance of information on recycling & preserving our environment. Simple Living Network Providing tools and examples for those who are serious about learning to live a more conscious, simple, healthy and restorative lifestyle. Sustainable Group Offers recycled binders, cardboard binders, recycled folders and green office supplies. Tire Playground - Maryland A total of about 7,000 scrap tires went into these projects. About 1,000 scrap tires were used in the construction of the playgrounds and the equivalent of over 6,000 tires were used as cover material under some play equipment. Used Cardboard Boxes This company sells quality used and new cardboard boxes for moving and shipping. An earth-friendly company providing simple and convenient delivery of moving kits, moving boxes and shipping boxes at discounted prices. Color of Horses Unique and colorful gifts, jewelry, arts and crafts and wearable art for horse lovers! Always searching for eco-friendly, fair-trade gifts celebrating horses. DISCLAIMER: These referrals are offered as a service of Close the Loop and do not constitute an endorsement of the above-mentioned companies. Close the Loop, LLC assumes no responsibility for the actions of or services provided by these companies. |
