Green Bites 18 - Bite-Sized Green Tips
Use these daily tips to green-up the edges of your life. Or go whole-hog and turn your live totally green.
Green Bites are just little tidbits of Green Info that each and everyone of us can very easily do to make a difference. By using the power of huge numbers just little changes can make a BIG difference.
Green Bites 18 include: Organic Chalkless Blackboards, Antiperspirent Free Deoderants, Recycled Paper Countertops and LED Landscape Lighting.
Magnetic Dry Erase Board Features:
Magnetic Dry erase surface for writing, creating charts, or leaving messages.
Use magnets and the dry erase surface doubles as a bulletin board
Rubberized corners provide color and improved durability on the boards most susceptible point
Dry erase marker and mounting strips included
Includes Dry Erase Marker and two magnets
At a minimum request dust-free chalk for blackboard usage. Airborne chalk particles can aggravate asthma and other resperatory illnesses.
If possible ask that whiteboards be used in lieu of blackboards. Chalk not only caused concern for our childrens health, it can cause computer damage when landing on the circuitry. Request dust-free dry erase boards for the school.
Also, a lot of us have chalkboards at home. Consider the use of dust-free dry-erase boards at home too. It's a great way to be green and minimize the hazards to our childrens' health.
Green Bites 18 Fact: Asthma affects 5 million school age children in the United States alone, which is about 10% of the school population and is a leading cause of shool absenteeism.
The next time you buy deoderants, consider a deoderant that is all natural and especially one that contains no aluminum salts.
Aluminum is extremely difficult and energy intensive to produce. Not to mention the health hazzard it posseses by cloging pores.
What it is: A clinical-strength deodorant that is 100% natural, safe, and effective.
What it is formulated to do: LAVANILA The Healthy Deodorant uses beta-glucan technology to effectively fight odor while soothing, conditioning, and strengthening the skin. It goes on clean, with no sticky wetness, and delivers long-lasting, luxurious results
What it is formulated WITHOUT: Parabens - Sulfates - Synthetic Dyes - Petro-Chemicals - Phthalates
What else you need to know: This dermatologist-recommended, non-irritating, allergy-tested formula does not contain aluminum or mineral oils.
Green Bites 18 Fact: If 5% of adults switched to non-antiperspirants for good, it would save enough energy to purchase 250 computers in U.S. Classrooms every day.
Recently, as people have started to care more about their impact on the environment, lots of green alternatives have become available, and recycled paper countertops are just one option - but they're a great one!
Most companies that make these green counters do so from 100& post-consumer recycled paper, which is great.
In a nutshell, they take the recycled paper, saturate it with a special resin (which is also environmentally friendly), and then use heat to fuse many layers of paper together, which forms the countertop.
They may also add pigment for coloring, so you can find recycled paper countertops in a variety of different colors.
Click the link to se our entire Green Living Made Easy article on Recycled Paper Countertops, for a lot of additional information.
Green Bites 18 - Recycled Paper Countertops
If you have been looking for a very low energy consumption, attractive looking way to light up your landscape - look no further.
With this LED landscape lighting you can elgantly light your garden paths, feature exotic plants and even light trees with bright up-lighing capabilites, all with the long life, low power consumption of LED lighting.
The path lights use a very minimal 1 watt each, which is about as close to zero as you can get. Even were more punch is required with small spots, only consume 2.5 watts each.
Couple that with a bulb life in the hundreds of thousands of hours and you have a very green option available to you.
In particular I like the Malibu LED Landscaping Package because of its good looks, quality materials and it comes in a complete kit with everything you will need to install this system yourself, saving even more green.
Features of the Malibu 6 piece LED Landscape Lighting Kit:
Oil bronze and black matte finish
Die cast and stamped metal construction
Corrosion resistant
Frosted plastic globe and clear glass lens
Malibu helps you make your outdoor settings as beautiful, livable, and enjoyable as any room in your house. With the six piece Pro Style LED kit,
You can provide attractive ground-level accent lighting for statues, fountains, foliage, and more along your garden, path or patio. Everything you need is included
