Your Questions About Green Living

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If by non promotional you mean not a gimmick or infomercial type thing I would look at faucet aerators and low flow shower heads. Average modern shower uses 2.5 gallons per minute they have spa quality shower heads that use 1.5 gpm saves a gallon of hot water every minute. Plus the one I bought (brand named EVOLVE) has what they call showerstart tech that saves on hot water.
Insulation in the form of caulking, weatherstripping, and gaskets that go around electrical outlets and light switches are very inexpensive and pay for them selves.
CFL and LED lighting pay for themselves well inside of a year if the light is used more than 4 hours a day.

If you were not talking about the money side of things and just want to be environmentally conscious stop using single use items whenever possible, This includes bags, be they paper or plastic (use canvas or anything reusable) water bottles, and paper/plastic dinnerware.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

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For girls- simple cloth handbags are eco-friendly and durable. They could replaced with other bags that are made of non-biodegradable materials.

Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs are also good, and can be a replacement to incandescent bulbs at home.

Some more items:
http://www.evo.com/content/kate_aspen/33068/silk_orchid_gel_candle

http://www.nunoorganic.com/product.asp?organic=coloringpencils&cat=toys&groupid=429

http://www.evo.com/content/get_hip_get_green/43017/love_this_planet_kanteen

http://www.evo.com/content/avalon/26761/organic_lavendar_hand_body_lotion

http://www.evo.com/content/avalon/28919/organic_lavender_conditioner

With the extra savings, you should have enough to buy the trees. If your group can also walk to a local park and pick up trash + recycle, that’s another fun thing to do. Placing bins around the school for recycling is also another way to help the environment. 🙂

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It might help if you clarified whether you want speaker the stereo equipment, or speaker the human being.

If it’s the former, Jeff’s link should help. If it’s the latter, I’d suggest you let your fingers do the walking, and find a local manufacturer or retailer of eco-friendly products. Someone local may be more willing to speak than someone who has to travel for it.

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Http://onebackroadatatime.webs.com/

This is my website that encourages all to clean up the Earth, one backroad at a time! It’s brand new, but I hope it helps!

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Ojon haircare uses ecofriendly products and they also help to employ South American tribes plus their stuff is great. You can learn more at http://www.ojonhaircare.com and then there is Jonathan Product who’s stuff is a little bit more L.A. But his stuff isn’t animal tested, it’s celebrity tested and it uses natural ingredients his site is http://www.jonathanproduct.com and I was just sent an email from Sephora about Cargo making a brand of lipstick that is made from corn so it’s biodegradable, and the package has flower seeds in it so after you’re done you wet the package and plant it and flowers will grow. It’s really cool, Also Stella McCartney has a new line of facial products that eco-friendly as well. You can find those and other lines at http://www.sephora.com