One Less – Energy Conservation The amount of energy we use directly affects our wallets. Below are some great tips on how to conserve energy in our lives. Free Money Depending on your local climate, home heating and cooling will account for roughly 50% of home energy use, with water heating taking another 15%, appliances […]
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One Less – Outdoor Water Conservation In last week’s blog, I discussed some key water usage statistics, as well as ways to save water in the home. This week, I cover outdoor water use — even more critical considering our outdoor use, on average, matches or even exceeds what we use indoors. Ways to conserve […]
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One Less – Indoor Water Conservation As with air, we tend to take for granted cheap, clean water; that is, as long as we’re not suffering through a drought, as is currently being experienced by California. Yet, water conservation, doing “less” with less water, is something we all need to practice – to set an […]
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October Wrap Up Norwex has some of the most wonderful folks in the business – consultants, customers, staff, all of them — and true to form, they submitted some tremendous responses to our Norwex Commitment Day 2014 call for “green” commitments. Some highlights… “We changed the light switches in the kids rooms and bathroom to […]
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Norwex Commitment Day – Improve Your World “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” – Jane Goodall
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one less plastic bottle: save our earth On nearly every level, from production to disposal, plastics spell just one thing: “big trouble.” This is not an exaggeration either; while plastics have always seemed a miracle material, endlessly malleable, flexible and durable, the reality is that in our throwaway world, nobody ever thought to consider the […]
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One Less Plastic Bottle: Avoiding Plastics The news on plastics just keeps getting worse, with each new study documenting yet another link between plastics and disease. While the focus has been on bisphenol-A (BPA), an endocrine disruptor linked to everything from birth defects to cancers, evidence is growing that many of the chemicals replacing […]
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“One Less” – Conserving Paper In continuing with my “One Less” theme, this month I address paper! While paper is not the first thing that comes to my mind (nor, probably, yours) when considering ways to save resources, paper packs a tremendous environmental wallop. The paper industry is considered the third most polluting of all […]
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The Facts About Paper Towels Did you know that the average person uses 2400 – 3,000 paper towels at work every year? Or that 90% of American households use paper towels for cleaning every day? They’re so lightweight, you might not think much about using them, but paper towel waste adds up to a very […]
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