Articles in the Go Lightly’s Green Challenge Category
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“Doing Things Better” Challenge #20: Think Ink
[Feb 24, 10 by
Are you still buying new ink cartridges for your printer when you run out? Did you know there is a franchise called Cartridge World that refills your empty cartridges, thereby diverting millions of plastic cartridges from our waste stream? And it saves you money too!
So the next time you need ink, refill those cartridges instead of buying new ones.
And while we are on the subject of computers, the amount of e-waste in the world cannot be ignored. With new technology developing at light speed, electronic waste is piling up faster …
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“Doing Things Better” Challenge # 19: Changing Our Food Future
[Feb 12, 10 by
This subject is so huge I cannot seem to focus on one point. The title of this challenge was going to be “It’s Winter. Eat Apples.” but as I got to writing, seven paragraphs later I realized that our food problems went far beyond just the miles it was shipped to get to us. There’s genetically modified organisms, tons of pesticides being dumped on crops, forests being destroyed for meat, horrific cruelty to animals in the livestock, poultry, and dairy production, and the SAD (Standard American Diet) of over-processed, over-packaged foods killing us
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“Doing Things BetterChallenge # 18: Trim That Bulky Waste”
[Jan 28, 10 by
I am aware that this is a contradictory statement for a retailer to say: but we buy too much stuff. Often we buy more clothes than can fit in our closets, backpacks that last only one school year, and umbrellas that last one storm.
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Doing Things Better Challenge # 17: New Bathroom Habits
[Jan 14, 10 by
This challenge will be all about focusing on the bathroom starting with toilet paper. Is the deforestation of ancient forests worth cushy, quilted toilet paper for….well, you know what we do with toilet paper? This kind of toilet paper requires the fiber from standing trees to get its plush texture so it cannot be made from recycled sources. And of all things that should be made from recycled sources, shouldn’t our toilet paper?
