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Is “purchasing green products” a priority in your household? For many, the idea of purchasing green products has not yet caught hold as something that is put into practice. And for many, the idea of purchasing green products has not been understood in relation to the green savings that can be realized.

Purchasing green products for your daily usage can be very smart. Not only will you be doing your little part for the environment, you may just be surprised at the savings over other products that contain harmful ingredients to our planet.

Purchasing green products today versus just a year or two ago has seen dramatic improvements in consumer prices. Recently, I purchased a name brand green dishwasher soap for less than I was paying for a top name brand soap. And guess what? The new green soap I started buying works just as good (In fact I am almost leaning to saying “better”) as the chemical filled soap I previously used!

My house has now many green products found in my cleaning closet, under my kitchen sing and even green products you can find in my bathroom. Now I know you are saying “of course he does, he is so into this green living”. But actually, many of the green products have appeared in my house just from smart shopping and the want to save money. Yes, I said “save money”! This is the point I am trying to make about the savings you can achieve from purchasing green products over other harmful chemical name brand non green products.

What about those green products that cost a little more than others? If your looking at the pro’s and con’s of purchasing green products strictly from the standpoint of financial considerations then consider this; There are so many different products that you will see saving on that the few that will cost you just a little more for switching will offset the small higher cost. So the end result will still be coming out around the same that you were previously spending or even possibly even a tad bit less! And remember, purchasing green products can mean so much more than simple financial savings. It’s not called “Green Savings” for nothing!

Let’s take a look at some top reasons for purchasing green products:

• Purchasing Green Products Can Save You Money – Green Savings!
• Most Green Products Work As Good As Non Green Products.
• Some Green Products Actually Work Better!
• You Will Be Helping Our Environment.
• Some Green Products Actually Save Resources when manufactured
• Many green products will help reduce aging on floors, counter tops, etc. (Non harmful chemicals)
• Purchasing Green Products Will Make You Feel Good. (And it should!)

So there you have it, purchasing green products is a great thing to do for more reasons than just doing the right thing. Get started the next shopping you do and simply look for the green products instead of what you were purchasing before. You might just be surprised that can save money by purchasing green products over their counterparts!

Most important, Purchasing Green Products Is The Right Thing To Do!

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I have remained somewhat quiet the last few days regarding the latest oil disaster which as I type this continues to spill massive amounts into our ocean. However, after looking at some pictures of the environmental impact this has caused (not to mention the birds that are destined to die oozing with with oil over their bodies) I have decided to type the first thing that comes to mind.

My first thoughts? “Drill Baby Drill” = “Spill Baby Spill“.

Without getting into the old politics of the Drill Baby Drill campaign slogans, I do have to say to those who only cared about getting cheaper gas; did you ever even consider that one small little problem with these oil rigs is that there is a chance for huge environmental damage? I guess that cheap gas is more important than the chance of killing our own oceans and wildlife.

Now I know that many will say that this type of “accident” can happen and it’s just part of that business. I beg to differ with this. It does NOT have to be. Obviously there is not enough safety procedures in place to prevent this from happening. And I do find it interesting that within just a couple weeks we have seen oil rigs with “accidents”. I Guess the workers killed and lost in the last one are also considered just part of doing business?

I think it is time we take a strong look at doing whatever is needed to minimize the possibility for these so called accidents from happening once and for all. What will it take? Do we have organizations that monitor closely these rigs and their safety procedures? (Actually I admit I am not sure I even know the answer to this!)

Interesting that recently we saw one of the worse disasters in 50 years in the mining industry which killed many. And we hear the outrage about all the possible “safety violations” that should have shut that mine down. Yet what about these oil rigs? Who monitors their safety? And for that matter exactly what safety regulations are there? I would love to hear the answer for all this!

As you can probably read in my writing here I am just a tad bit upset. I wonder how many others are also upset and have finally had enough?

Feel free to post your opinions on this here!

Do you have a different thought on this? SPILL IT OUT!

Do you have a passion for living green and making our planet green? Ever thought about actually making a living within the green industry? There are so many ways you can make a green income and the sky is the limit with so many possibilities with green business opportunities.

If you love doing anything you can for helping our green planet, why not get paid for it at the same time? There is nothing wrong with profiting from your efforts and I cannot think of a more admirable job or business than being in the “field of green”

You might find it interesting that doing a google search will yeild the following number of pages( for doing an exact search with quotes) on the following:

• “green business opportunities” (537,000)
• “green income” (136,000)
• “green jobs” (2,160,000)

The amount of information on the internet related to green jobs is extreme! Even the subject of green business opportunities is growing at a fast rate now days.

With so much information available on green income, green jobs and green business opportunities, it would be foolish for me to attempt to be the defacto source on this subject within this article. However, what I would like to do here is bring awareness to the fact that there opportunities abound in the green industry and if you are at all passionate abiout living green and making our planet green then perhaps working in this field would be perfect!

For Green Income & Jobs:

Take a serious look around your own community and you might be surprised that if you do a little research, you may find that there are jobs available that are looking for expertise you already have!

For Green Business opportunities:

Obviously you can think up your own ideas or start something that is already proven by others. In either case you can simply use google and do some research that may lead you down the correct path towards green success!

The Best Green Business Opportunitites?

That is where I hope to be help to you. It is my intention to be researching this on a constant basis and reporting to my loyal followers what I find and make recommendations that can get you started with a great income from green business opportunities.

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The title of this article really says it all. It really is YOU and every person on this entire planet that has the power to make a green planet with simply having a green mindset.

What is a green mindset? No, it’s not becoming some kind of a fanatic. And it’s not about driving everyone that you know crazy with recycling strategies.

Having a green mindset can be on so many different levels. From just having a simple awareness to what is important that you can do yourself for living green, to being much more heavy in your thinking along with a much more active roll with advocating to others things they can do (or better yet, leading others to have a more green mindset themselves!)

The fact that you are taking the time to read this article about having a green mindset proves that you have at least at minimum a small interest in living green and helping to create a more green planet. Pat yourself on the back! You are far ahead of others that don’t take one minute of thought per day devoted to this subject matter!

You are most likely expecting me to write about how you can do recycling or purchase only green products to make difference on our planet. However, this is not the road I am traveling down for this article. (Though those ideas are good thing to be doing too

Yes, there is a lot of things that has to do with having a green mindset. And there is so many things that you can do to help make a green planet. But have you every felt like the small amount of recycling you do seems insignificant? Or you wish you could really make a bigger difference? Well, I am about to show just how YOU have the power to make a green planet and one part of that green mindset that can make a real difference.

Ever heard the saying “there is power in numbers”? This is more true than you can ever imagine when it comes to making our planet greener. You see, when we work alone for any cause, we can never make a lot of headway. However, when we work in large numbers the activities (sometimes just spreading the word) of others starts to magically make a bigger difference!

So having a green mindset is great. But what if you started with just one person, say a friend or even family member and started little by little introducing your values for green living and your values about making a green planet. When you open the door for conversations related to the subject of living green then you are able to possibly help in the development of another person having a more green mindset. And this can be viral since all it takes is one other person to start doing the same! Imagine what happens when that one person starts recycling and doing things that make a difference and then they get others to have a better green mindset and they start doing the same. Now what seamed like a little insignificant has not just become very significant!

So do this… Re-read this article (especially the prior paragraph above) and think about how simple conversations with others can make a huge impact. We all want to leave some kind of mark on this earth for after we are gone. Here is a real simple way to do it!

Stay tuned for so much more to come regarding the subject of the green mindset and what we can all do to start making a difference.

Have some ideas of your own for conversations that are effective in helping others have a green mindset? Let everyone know by commenting on this article for others to see!

Ok, I know you have no doubt heard this one many times over the years. “Recycling Is Good”. Perhaps this is something you already do in your life. (Awesome!) And there are so many things now days that you can do your part with for recycling. Glass, Paper, etc. I wonder if you may be like me… Heard for a while about plastic sitting in a landfill for decades and the importance of doing recycling with plastic bottles. However, there are far worse things than just the fact they sit in your local landfill for many years. Once you know the real impact of plastics on our planet, you may just start looking at plastic recycling in a much more serious light.

I should mention here that when it comes to the subject of plastic, talking about the evil of plastics for a long time has not exactly been very popular to large corporations who for many years saved big money using plastics for containers to package their products. Plastic can be very cheap and is still a top choice by manufactures.

I can also say that in my own company we are using many different plastic bottles for our natural products. Yes, I am scratching my head trying to come up with a final solution for this problem and hope to get away from plastics all together in my company ASAP. It is a little unnerving to tell our customers that we make all natural products and then at the same time hand them a plastic bottle. As I write this article, I begin to become angry at myself for not already solving this problem once and for all… Yes, we do have a recycling program for customers to bring in their empty bottles to our stores for credit but the real solution will be much better if we can finally nix the plastic bottle usage entirely. Stay tuned, I’m working on it!

Now back to the purpose of this article which is to show you some facts about plastic bottles and how they really have a bad impact on our planet…

Recycling plastic bottles might not have been your number one priority (and for most people it has not been) but I think that once you know the numbers, the facts might just raise your eyebrows! I mentioned in the beginning that plastic bottles sit in a landfill for decades. Well, that was a big under exaggeration. The real estimated figures are up to 700 years. YES, I SAID SEVEN HUNDRED YEARS! That figure is enough to boggle the mind. (At least it boggles my mind!)

And yet another figure that is hard to imagine is that plastics take about 20 percent of the total volume in a landfill. This is because of their low bulk density. So not only do we have something that takes many hundreds of years to decompose, we have around 20% of the entire amount of garbage sitting around in a landfill being represented by plastic. Not sure about you but stopping and thinking about this should make both your eyebrows raise up real big!

Also, recycling plastic bottles saves about 60% the energy needed to manufacture new bottles! It is also interesting that every single piece of plastic made in the United States alone reduces the reserve supply of petroleum and makes the USA more dependent on foreign oil.

So the above facts alone should push anyone into seriously thinking about solving this program and at the very least start recycling plastic bottles in every way possible. Let’s take a good look at some other reasons for recycling plastic;

Recycling plastic bottles conserves energy that would have been used for new production and creates jobs. Just for one example, the state of North Carolina has over 14,000 jobs that are employed in the recycling industry.

Plastic bottles can actually be recycled right back into plastic bottles again, or can even be a different product entirely such as other kinds of containers, lumber, or even carpet and clothing. Interesting thought; take back all plastic sitting in our landfills and let companies recycle them into new products, saving the companies much money over new materials. (Just a thought)

So is recycling plastic bottles more important than recycling other materials? Of course the correct answer is that anything that can be recycled should be. However, consider the fact that  energy savings are huge! Recycling plastic bottles uses 76% less energy, paper uses 45% less, and glass uses 21% less. So from the standpoint of bang for the buck perhaps recycling bottles is at least at the top of the list!

If all of the above has not yet got you thinking harder about recycling plastic bottles then consider this… In many cases you can actually make a little extra money from recycling. Plastic bottles, plastic soda bottles, shampoo bottles, (and many bath and body product bottles for that matter) including milk jugs can bring some income from many recycling centers around the country. There are many other items like plastic grocery bags that might not be accepted by the free curbside recycling programs, but there are other recycling centers that may purchase your plastics.

Recycling plastic bottles is not the only answer. Perhaps another solution is to just flat cut down on the usage of any products in plastic. Yes, I know that is easier said than done. However, the point I should really make here is that every time you purchase anything that is in a plastic bottle, think about what your going to do with it when it is empty!

In relation to plastic water bottles, using a bottled water delivery service that sanitizes bottles and then recycles them might be a better alternative for you and the environment. In any case just think about what you can do. Recycling, Skipping purchasing them all together, or some other alternative idea that can help the problem is good. Heck, anything that you do more than your doing now is a great contribution.

For those of you that are interested in how you can really make a different in keeping our planet green and helping out in the plastic bottle issue, the biggest impact you can make is not only doing your own part such as recycling, but perhaps a greater impact would be to educate others about plastic bottles and the impact they have on our planet. Remember, all it takes is a small seed planted in the minds of just a few others and they will also spread the word. Before you know it, your small efforts of educating others and promoting the importance if this issue will actually start to make a real difference!

While this article has been mainly about recycling plastic bottles, you should now be thinking much broader. There are so many other things that are made out of plastic which pose a serious problem to our planet. It is my hope that this article has sparked you into more thinking about the entire subject of plastic, recycling, possible solutions and most importantly spreading the work and getting others involved in becoming active in helping to make our planet green.

Spread The Word, Make A Difference! “Just Do It!!!”

P.S… If you have some thoughts on this issue you would like to add or perhaps your own solutions you would like to share then let me know! I would love to hear other ideas on recycling plastic bottles!

Turning on CNN news this morning the first story I caught was about the new program being labeled as the “Cash For Caulkers” program. I had heard a little about this proposed program in early March but have to admit that I did not pay enough attention to it at the time.

I should mention that as with all government programs there is politics involved and there will be many who will be on both sides of the fence who will be either for or against these types of programs. It is not my intention to create a political conversation but rather a discussion of facts that pertain to how this cash for caulkers program could be good for green living and a greener earth.

So the concept seems simple enough. A government program where we get paid to caulk our homes?I do find it somewhat curious that it takes an incentive of getting paid to do something that we all should already be doing that has great benefits to ourselves in both energy and financial savings. But I guess that sometimes it takes getting the masses to do something for themselves an to incentive to help themselves?

With that said, let’s take a look at the history and facts for this proposed cash for caulkers program!

First and foremost, this so called “Cash For Caulkers” program is not exclusive. In other words the entire program is NOT about simply applying caulking to your home. Performing this action is just a part of the overall program that could pay you for reducing your energy costs. The term “Cash For Caulking” is really just a media term that was started as a catchy news line. But there is actually some truth to this term.

The actual program was called “Home Star”. However, I have to admit that I do like the term “Cash For Caulkers” so think I will just stiock to that term for this article.

Basically the idea behind the Cash For Caulkers program was to give tax credits for households reducing energy using energy star appliances, and also represents a real chance to reduce American dependence on rapidly depleting fossil fuels, not to mention the potential for job creation. The program would grant rebates to home owners who improve their homes with energy-efficient upgrades. As CNN Money explains, “The program contains two parts: money for homeowners for efficiency projects, and money for companies in the renewable energy and efficiency space.”.

The idea and also part of a plan would increase jobs by the thousands and the incentives would be offered to homeowners who make eco-friendly decisions about home improvements , such as insulation projects.

The Cash for Caulkers plan would give tax credits for households that reduce energy usage from using energy star appliances. A 20 percent energy reduction could mean $4,000 in subsidy. Cash for Caulkers also represents a chance to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, and the big potential for job creation. there are more than a million construction industry workers who lost their jobs in the last few years and they would be the prime candidates for doing much of the work in the program.

As mentioned above, this Cash for Caulkers program would reimburse homeowners for a list of qualified home energy retrofits. such as:

• air sealing
• insulation
• new energy efficient lights and appliances.

So what would us taxpayers get for an estimated investment of many billions over a couple years?

• 500,000 well paying jobs in the depressed construction industry
• somewhere around 6-million homes retrofit
• billions of dollars in energy savings over the life of the retrofits
• power plants that will not have to be built.
• the equivalent in green house gas emissions reduction of taking half the cars in the country off the road.

Ok, so let’s get real here! The EXACT financial benefits, numbers of retrofits and even the green house gas emission reductions seen (as reported by the consulting firm McKinsey & Company) is highly speculative. But let’s also understand that no matter how you argue the real figures there is no argument in the the fact that some very major benefits from this program will be received.

So, I would highly advise everyone to watch this proposed program closely and if this program does get started then take advantage and do some of the proposed changes to your home and get paid to be green!

–> Let me know your thoughts on this program! If this program is started will you be taking advantage?

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