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Green Summer Preparation Tips and Season Home Preparation Tips

Norman F — Sun, 31 May 2026 08:00:05 +0000

Summer is rapidly approaching, it is time to clean up your place. Getting ready for summer can generate a lot of waste. The warmer weather opens up the opportunity to get outside more often as well as requires us to cool down the home. EWG has a nice list of tips to help you clean your […]

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11 Tips on Keeping New Year’s Resolutions

Norman F — Fri, 26 Dec 2025 09:00:24 +0000

Happy New Year from EasyEcoBlog! May the new year bring you lots of luck and prosperity, and more greenness! Only through education can we learn how to be eco-friendly, green. We all need to learn new ways of doing things and need to help teach our friends and neighbors how to do things the right […]

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Winter Green Pest Control Tips – Ants, Organic Pesticides

Norman F — Mon, 15 Dec 2025 08:00:00 +0000

Winter time brings on the bugs, seemingly at the same time every year. The ants in our area seem to love to visit our kitchen when the first heavy rains hit. Almost everyone has to deal with pests. Whether indoor or outdoors, we need to think about eco friendly, green alternatives to toxic pesticides. Here […]

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Chinese Chalk or Chinese Insecticide Chalk

Norman F — Tue, 26 Nov 2024 08:00:03 +0000

Recently I found a friend who was using Chinese Miraculous Insecticide Chalk otherwise known as Pretty Baby Chalk, Ant Chalk, Roach Chalk and Chinese Chalk. Tres Pasitos is a Spanish name for this product. The product is illegal and dangerous. The EPA has a warning on it too. We tried it in the past and […]

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Recycle Drugs, Recycle Medicine – Disposing of Medicine Properly

Norman F — Sun, 21 Apr 2024 15:30:29 +0000

April 27, 2004 10am local time, is National Prescription Drug Take-Back Day. The DEA is promoting this day for people to turn in your unused or expired medication for safe disposal. They have a local collection site locator on their website. Over 5600 sites will take back items. Several cities near me are participating with […]

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Repairing Broken Electronics is Green

Norman F — Mon, 01 Jan 2024 08:00:18 +0000

Electronics eventually break down. The dilemma is then repair or replace the item. If you item is under warranty, the decision is easy – get it fixed. Recycling electronics does not address the issue. China stopped taking our waste Irresponsible recyclers add to toxic waste problem Fix, do not replace Remember that many credit cards […]

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Green Pans and Green Pan Cookware for the Eco Friendly Kitchen

Norman F — Sun, 01 Jan 2023 08:00:58 +0000

Buy Safe cookware! We are concerned about chemicals in our food, but another source of toxins is from the cookware that we use in our kitchens. It is important that we understand the different types of cookware and possible dangers. There has been significant media coverage on problems with different non-stick coatings off gassing, especially […]

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How to have a Green Halloween

Norman F — Mon, 18 Oct 2021 08:00:27 +0000

Having an Eco Friendly Green Halloween is more and more desirable these days. How can you green your Halloween? Buy your pumpkins, squash, and other vegetables from a local farmers market or from local sources Rent or buy your costume from used clothing stores like Goodwill. Reusing items that you already have is even better. […]

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New Method Green Pouch packaging for Refills

Norman F — Thu, 08 Jul 2021 08:00:27 +0000

Method has a new way of packaging refill products such as their foaming hand wash refill and their laundry detergent, and dish soap. They use a pouch with easy pour spout that they claim uses 83% less footprint than a rigid plastic bottle. It uses less plastic, energy, and water. Refills are in widespread use […]

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Earth Friendly Clothing Choices – Bamboo, Nylon, Polyster, Microfiber

Norman F — Fri, 10 Apr 2020 08:00:21 +0000

Over 11 million tons of textiles went into landfills in 2018. Few people equate fashion with environmental issues, but it is a big problem. Did you know that making clothes is a dirty process? Per the Wall Street Journal April 2019: The textile industry has generated about 380 million metric tons of plastic—more than other […]

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