How to Live Green Everyday

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Our Topics:

We're looking for lenses that will help all kinds of families and individuals become more green in their everyday lives.

Appropriate topics include: The Three R's, conservation, pollution, climate change, energy saving tips, and other green living ideas.

If you have a great lens about reducing human impact on the environment, submit it to Green Crusaders and share your knowledge!

Green Crusaders is not a group for lenses that sell "Green" products, but do not provide information on green living issues.

Our Guidelines:

The purpose of the Green Crusaders group is to educate, instruct and share. In order to make sure that our content is of the best quality, we have some standards that we wish to maintain.

Here are some of the things we look for:

1) Lenses should contain at least two original written content modules that are related to our topic (not including the introduction, product reviews or Wikipedia modules). We want to read about recycling, reducing and reusing!

2) Lensmasters should have a detailed profile with Contact Me enabled. Remember that no one can view your email address directly.

To learn more about joining groups on Squidoo, visit Squid Etiquette. For ideas on how to create super, successful lenses, visit some of our recommended help lenses in the sidebar.

All lenses that are accepted into Green Crusaders are reviewed and rated, as well as featured here on the HQ page. Don't forget to check out some group lenses and join in the Group Discussion!

Have You Always Been Green?

Favorite Green Living Resources

Where do you go to learn new ways to reduce your impact on the environment?

Add your favorite Green Living lens or website, and vote for your favorites.

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Green Crusader Tactics

What are your favorite ways to stay green? Vote for the green living methods that you use most.

If you're doing something unique to help environment, add it to the list!

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Get the RSS feed: Keep an eye on this Plexo list. See who wins. And who's left in the dirt.

Get the widget: Add this Plexo list as a widget on your blog, site, forum, whatever. Be an influential. Show off your great find.

Get this on my lens: Attack of the clones! Grab this Plexo module for your own lens. Get YOUR readers to vote for their favorites.

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Recycling and Reusing Resources

These lenses and websites offer ideas on how you can upcycle your household items to save money and help the environment.

If you know of a great lens, blog or website that can teach us how to reuse our refuse, add it to the list.

Please only submit recycling resources. All irrelevent links will be deleted. Thanks!

Add to this list Grab this list

Get the RSS feed: Keep an eye on this Plexo list. See who wins. And who's left in the dirt.

Get the widget: Add this Plexo list as a widget on your blog, site, forum, whatever. Be an influential. Show off your great find.

Get this on my lens: Attack of the clones! Grab this Plexo module for your own lens. Get YOUR readers to vote for their favorites.

• Add to Bloglines
• Add to My Yahoo
• Add to Google
• Add to Technorati
• Add to NewsGator
• Add to My MSN
• Grab the XML

Please pick your widget size and display. Then click "Make the Widget" to get the code that's just right for you.

Small size: Best for blog sidebars and areas 250 pixels or less

Standard size: Best for blog posts and areas greater than 250 pixels wide

How many list items to show? 5 10 15 All

Make the Widget!

Voila: Just copy and paste this code into your own site. Have fun!

Oopsey! Please login to Squidoo in order to add this module to your lens.

Add more links

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Type or paste links below (one per line):
(Ex: http://www.cuteoverload.com) Help me find links

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Tips To Recycle Old Toothbrushes

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50 Things you can Reuse

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Conservation and Awareness

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We Need Just One More Person To "Go Green"

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Green Writing Challenge!

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Ban Paper Coffee Cups From The Face Of The Earth!

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Eating Greener

Save the World with Peanut Butter and Jelly!

Ok, maybe you can't really save the entire world with PB&J, but opting for a peanut butter and jelly sandwich instead of a burger at least once a week does have positive consequences for our planet. Find out why.

Saving Energy

How To Save Electricity Used For Lighting

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Solar Powered and Other Environmentally Friendly Appliances

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How To Lower Your Electric Bills

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HOWTO: Save Electricity Used By Your Computer

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Sustainable Living

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Frogs

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Green VS Sustainable

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Green Gardening

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GO GREEN-COMPOST

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Green for the Holidays

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