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20 Mule Team - Product Details

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Borax is a natural mineral that does everything: washes your floors, does your laundry, freshens the air, and even kills ants. I like to mix it with some vinegar and lemon juice and a tiny bit of dish soap for an all-purpose cleaner.

Updated Jul 20, 2007

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Local Foods

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Although I've got a lot of room for improvement, I've started to purchase and eat more local food when I can. Whether it's from your garden or a farmer's market, if every American ate just one locally grown organic meal per week we would cut U.S. oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil per week.

Updated Jul 20, 2007

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Voting

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I can screw in as many CFLs as I want, but real and meaningful change isn't going to happen without sound policy. Use that voting booth, that cell phone, and that computer to contact your elected officials and let them know that a clean and efficient energy system is better for our economy, our security, our health, and our planet.

Updated Jul 19, 2007

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Duplexer

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Are you printing double-sided? How about your employer? Some quick math convinced mine: Duplexers are a small investment and can turn around significant savings in paper costs and trees.

Updated Jul 19, 2007

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Totally Bamboo Cutting Board

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Bamboo is an amazing product of Mother Nature: It's actually a fast-growing grass that is extremely hard, lightweight, and replenishes itself. It's one of the most sustainable "woods" you can buy.

Updated Jul 19, 2007

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Anything by Aveda

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Aveda is one of those rare companies that lives its mission of sustainable, healthy products through and through. From their natural hair and beauty products to the organic, fair trade beverages they offer you in their salons to their ardent support of renewable energy, anything by Aveda is a good buy.

Updated Jul 19, 2007

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Ceiling Fans

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I've lost count of the number of times that just turning on a ceiling fan cooled the room so efficiently that I didn't need the air conditioning.

Updated Jul 19, 2007

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Public Transportation

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Another easy gadget may of us urbanites and suburbanites can use: public transportation. It's efficient, (saving 1.4 billions gallons of gas each year), gives you some quality personal time to read or listen to your iPod, and allows those of us in colder climes to avoid having to scape off an inch of ice from our windshield every morning and afternoon.

Updated Jul 19, 2007

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Green Power

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Many electricity providers give customers the option to pay a few extra dollars a month to buy green power, and it's one of the easiest ways to invest in clean, renewable energy in your state. I invest in Xcel Energy's Windsource program and pay around $10-$15 extra month to get all of my electricity from wind power. Contact your provider to see if you can invest in renewable energy.

Updated Jul 19, 2007

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Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs : ENERGY STAR

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CFLs are no-brainer: They're super energy efficient (cutting energy use by about 75% compared to traditional bulbs), easy-to-find (sold at many hardware stores, online, or your traditional big box store), and have good light quality.

Updated Jul 19, 2007

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