- Greenpeace is Still Searching for Green Electronics
Are you planning to buy a cell phone? Or maybe a laptop? Check this list before you decide what brand you are getting yourself into. They might seem harmless and Eco-friendly, but only Greenpeace knows what’s best for our environment. Electronics may have its impact on all areas in our life except one: environment.
We already saw Samsung solar-powered cell phone as their green steps. However, it tickles me on how significant it is compared to Samsung total waste in their factory. According to Greenpeace, the list of eco-friendly electronic brands is as following (starting from the best):
- Nokia
- Dell
- HP
- Sony Ericsson
- Samsung
- Sony
- LG Electronics
- Panasonic
- Toshiba
- Fujitsu Siemens Computers
- Apple (!!!)
- Acer
- Motorola
- Lenovo
Now tell me how ‘green’ are your electronics? Take green steps to help our environment now starting from your electronic devices.
Happy Green Living!
- Earth’s Best Baby Diapers & Wipes
After having Eco-friendly cell phone, visiting Eco-friendly hotel and experiencing Eco-friendly hairspray, we have some more green steps for you. These are called Earth’s Best Baby Diapers. Suitable with its name, these diapers are Eco-friendly and according to some surveys done among moms this is the best brand. The distinct features Earth’s Best Baby Diapers have are:
- Non-chlorine bleached materials
- Contains natural absorbent material
such as corn and wheat
- Super Absorbency
- Comfy stretchy refastenable tabs
- Latex-free, dye-free, perfume-free
- Moisture barrier cuff
- Breathable sides
- Non-woven inner and outer cover, made with plant based renewable resources.
They are available online in 7 sizes, and priced starting from $47.29 at Amazon.Take some baby green steps!
Happy Green Living!
- Eco-friendly Lisa Simpson
After having Leonardo DiCaprio and Angelina Jolie, you might think that 1000 Green Steps was joking by putting Lisa Simpson as our Green Idol for this edition. And so that you know, we’re not.
You guys have already heard about The Simpsons Movie, right? In that movie that eight-year-old Lisa warned Springfield community about the harm of toxic pollution. That heart-touching moment implicitly showed us that Lisa had influenced her generation to get educated and informed about the danger of damaged ecology. And not just that, she had already inspired many young generations to wear their hearts to solve global issues.
1000 Green Steps can’t tolerate if an eight-year-old girl can do that but you couldn’t.
Happy Green Living!
- Cows Eating Garbage
Sounds so simple, but saying is always easier than doing it. Follow these 5 tips from 1000 Green Steps to find yourself ‘cured’ from your littering addiction. Act now!
1. Think about the danger
Think about how one plastic bag left on the ground would affect your environment and soil. Think about the money that has to go to waste to hire people to collect that garbage. Are YOU ready to get blamed?
2. Get yourself informed
Do you know that the several trillion toxic cigarette butts littered worldwide annually are responsible for fatal fires and the deaths of numerous mammals, birds and reptiles that eat them? Get yourself informed and I’m 100% sure you will not litter anymore if you still got heart.
3. Make an effort
Try to find a trash can anywhere or simply keep a litter bag in your car at anytime. You won’t have an excuse if you do so 
4. Just pick it up!
The simplest way but might happen to be the hardest one if you didn’t get use to it. Try it and you’ll regret why you didn’t start it earlier.
5. See the right people
Join the right communities such as these organizations 1000 Green Steps found for you: Keep America Beautiful or Adopt a Road program.
Happy Green Living!
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A few dedicated experts tell the story of how they began to realize all the toxic exposures in daily life that could be causing the epidemic – toxics in their home and even their own personal care products.
A few dedicated breast cancer activists relate how they tried to improve regulations to prevent breast cancer, and how they have changed their own lives to make it safer.
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- Sun Jar Day and Night
Today 1000 Green Steps browsed some eco-friendly gifts, and found another eco-friendly gift aside from “Eco-man†gift box. Do you remember your childhood moments when you caught a firefly and you wanted to keep it in a glass jar forever? Well, when you grow up things changed and that jar will be filled with jam. 1000 Green Steps found a gift for your beloved ones to make their childhood dreams come true, and at the meantime saves our environment.
Jam jars is filled with jam. But this innovative Sun Jar will be filled with sun! Yes, this jar will collect sun shines and store it inside the jar so that you can use it for the night time. So you can as well say that this is a solar powered lamp which is automatically shines when it is dark.
This Sun Jar could be placed both indoor and outdoor because it is waterproof so rain will not destroy its mechanism.
So claim your free sun-light forever, right now! Sun Jar is available online at $34.98.
Happy Green Living!
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DIY Striped T-shirt
As promised, now 1000 Green Steps would like to share this information 1000 Green Steps got from a friend. So yes, it’s not really our own idea but he allowed me to tell everybody else, so here we go!
- Find an old T-shirt you don’t want anymore (preferably if it is dark plain colored).
- Use a duct tape to make your stripes.
- Spray your t-shirt with a bleach/water mixture. Use 70% bleach and 30% water. Let your shirt dry after you spray it to your liking.
- Wash it and it is ready!
So you see? Instead of throwing them away to the trash bin in your house, you can still use them after doing a little effort to transform it into a brand new T-shirt.
But if you still don’t want to reuse it, still 1000 Green Steps encourage you all to donate them to people who need those T-shirts or just do a garage sale and make yourself some money.
Happy Green Living!
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Sounds impossibe? Totally not! 1000 Green Steps will just implement the same exact 3R tips to be done in your business environment. Easy. Simple. Doable.
Reduce
You can reduce your electricity usage by turning off equipments you are not using. Get used to the behavior to turn off the computers at the end of your day and easily cut back 50% energy usage.
Avoid printing everything out of your computer. If it’s not necessary, then try to reduce paper waste starting from there.
Reuse
If you really have to print things on paper, try to print them on recycled paper or print them using both sides of the paper.
Change your office equipment into more eco-friendly office supplies which often offer the ability to be reused after you are done with them.
Recycle
Make sure that you provide many recycling bins for all of your company staff. So that everyone will know where to recycle those unwanted paper sheets. You can even make a contest among office departments so that everyone will do their part as much as they can to improve our environment.
Contact a recycling company so someone can handle your company recycling needs correctly.
It’s very simple right? Educate your staff and implement what you’ve learned for Mother Nature.
Happy Green Living!
- Angelina Jolie as Goodwill Ambassador
Angelina Jolie is not exactly the greenest celebrities 1000 Green Steps have ever seen. However her effort to sacrifice her personal life to make people become greener is something we should give applause for. Jolie is a Goodwill Ambassador for the U.N. Refugee Agency for 5 years, which assists around 20 million refugees in over 100 countries.
Jolie even made a website containing her personal journal from her various visits to the world with the U.N., including Sudan, Cambodia, Ethiopia, Ecuador and Namibia. Angelina is one celebrity using her status to focus media attention toward something other than herself.
Jolie has received various awards including UNCA Citizen of the World by the U.N. Correspondents Association and the Global Humanitarian Action Award from the U.N. Association of the USA and the Business Council for the United Nations.
Now it is our turn to take the action. Start from trying to influence people around us to care about environment.
Happy Green Living
Everything is just really going eco-friendly lately! Just look at this beautiful designed lamp. Who says that eco-friendly lamp can’t have a sophisticated design? These lamps are made of rotomolding, in a mix of low density plastic with crushed electronic waste plastic. Its base is even produced with smelted aluminum of beer and drink tins! It is very cool 1000 Green Steps even wanted one for ourselves.
The name of the lamp is N+EW Light which is an abbreviation for No More Electronic Waste. So it is clear now that the main goal of this project is to reduce electronic waste in our environment.
If that is not enough, you can match your N+EW Light with N+EW Handmade Stool! Yes, it is handmade and made of electronic waste, epoxic resin and melted aluminum. These stools are one of a kind and only made through special orders.
Who’s behind this? Actually this project is made by Rodrigo Alonso, a graphic designer with recognized experience in the world of publicity. He has a noticeable academic of different universities and workshops in Chile and Latin America. He has worked in the image of large international brands as Renault, Lucky Strike, Warner Bros, and Sony. He is the one who created of the studio-laboratory Müsuc.
