GAP Stores has a recycle your denim and receive a 30% off coupon event, March 5 through March 14, 2010. They will recycle the denim and turn it into the eco friendly housing insulation.

Costco now sells Nature’s Choice 100% Recycled Premium Bath Tissue.  No need to make a special trip to Whole Paycheck aka Whole Foods to get recycled products.  Price is as low as you would expect from Costco and performance of the product is fairly good too.

The NRDC states: If every household in the United States replaced just one roll of virgin fiber toilet paper (500 sheets) with 100% recycled ones, we could save 423,900 trees.

Consumer Reports has a new issue entitled Best TVs with a great review of indoor paints including an independent review and discussion of low and no VOC paints.

Low VOC paints contain no more than 50 grams per liter of VOCs.  At one time indoor paints contained almost 400 grams per liter of VOCs.

The top rated paints were low VOC with zero VOC ones rated lower.  Some of the zero VOC paints that did well in Satin and Flat finishes that we have encountered in the past are Olympic Premium from Lowe’s. This paint is very inexpensive and available nationwide.

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Got old eyeglasses laying around? Prescription changed, frame outdated, etc.. time to put the old glasses back to work with those less fortunate.

Unite for Sight helps take unwanted eyeglasses and sunglasses and distributes them to people in Africa.  They find people with vision needs in the same ballpark as your glasses and gives them away.  Any eyeglass, for most of these folks, is better than no glasses, even if the prescription is not exactly the same.

Lion’s Clubs also recycle eyeglasses. They have donation boxes in Walmart stores and Sam’s Clubs with vision centers.

Car Racks significantly reduce car mileage.  It is amazing how many people drive around with ski or bike racks permanently attached to their car. 99% of the time, these car racks are empty.  Why not just remove them and install when they are needed.

No doubt convenience is the main reason.  Car racks interfere with aerodynamics.  We can hear a distinct noise whenever a rack is on our vehicle.  A site did a test and measured 12% less miles per gallon with an empty rack and 27% less mileage with a bike on the rack.  Placing a rack on the back of the car reduces mileage far less,  so consider a hitch mounted ski or bike rack.