This week OnEarth is hosting Carnival of the Green -- the weekly compendium of links submitted to and blogged by by environmental and green writers on the web.
If your New Year's resolutions include lessening your personal environmental impact, as well as saving money, green advice bloggers want to help:
- kelley at Guffly offers A Year of Simple Green Ideas to help keep you going.
- Jim provides 10 Quick Ecofriendly Things You Can Do Right Now.
- Enviro-conscious can also fatten your wallets, posits Arohan of Personal Dividends, offering suggestions to Save Money When You Go Green.
- Stacey Doyle thinks people can, and should, cut their postage costs by going paperless, and using e-mail instead of the Post Office.
- Mrs Green is anxious about the tons of waste generated during year-end holidays. At My Zero Waste she puts up tips foraged UK residents on how to safely dispose of unwanted electronics and electrical goods (tagged "WEEE" in the regulations).
- Mrs Green also reviews the blackly humorous cautionary film, The Age of Stupid, which looks back on how our era failed to deal with climate change. She adds five tips for taking action and reducing your carbon footprint.
- From mild to wild, SVB of The Digerati Life has some "seriously thrifty" ways to save money and use less stuff. Mild: Don't buy clothes that require dry cleaning. [I started doing this some years ago -- huge money saver.] Wild: "...peel off double ply tissue, if you know what I mean."
There's also a "live more with less" theme to some of this week's CotG submissions:
- At Fake Plastic Fish, Beth Terry muses on how to decrease the amount of stuff in our lives. "Are our gifts of benefit to the recipient or actually burdens to be dealt with? Can we find ways to express our love that don't involve filling up our lives with more stuff?"
- Frugally Green suggests "saving Earth one dollar at a time" by perfecting the art of the staycation.
If your 2010 includes a wedding, Factory Direct Craft Blog has tips for an Eco-Friendly Wedding - Going Green on Your Special Day.
Continuing the eco-crafty theme, Cindy of My Recycled Bags has created a a set of free patterns for recycling T-shirts into yarn -- or "tarn" -- and then crocheting them into pretty keen potholders, trivets, and insulating knob covers for pot lids.
If you're the thoughtful sort who starts planning in January for December gift-giving, True Adventures in Money Hacking wants you to Give Homemade, Wrap Homemade: How to create your own festive and frugal wrapping paper, gift bags, and gift boxes.
The rest of us can bookmark it for future reference.
Carnival of the Green #208 wraps up with some serious fare:
One Degree Matters: Rich Maltzman, who's donned the moniker "Earth Project Manager," challenges readers to watch a video about the melting of Greenland challenges "with an impartial eye and note the opportunities for project managers, whatever one's view on climate change," to take advantage of the "green wave."
Sally Kneidel summarizes a study about the effects of environmental contamination by BPA (bispenol-A), an endocrine disruptor which can affect fetal and infant development. Kneidel describes potential sources of BPA contamination in common products and objects (such as cash register receipts!) and alternative products to help consumers avoid it.
Kudos to Lighter Footstep for hosting Carnival of the Green #207.
Carnival of the Green is coordinated by Kara DiCamillo and Treehugger. Want to participate in the next Carnival of the Green? You'll find everything you need to know at Treehugger's Carnival of the Green homepage.
