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1. Funny Websites and Other Ways to Waste Time These are sites that have helped me through many a dull afternoon at work.  I hope you enjoy them.  Feel free to add your own, just mind the categories.  Vote for your favorite pages!!!     p.s. Let me know what you think.&...
2. What Not Recycling Will Do To You Recycling isn't exactly a new idea, but it's only moved to a more important aspect of everyone's lives within the last few years. We're still slow on progress in the green world, but some things have been accomplished. Is this enough? The answer, sim...
3. Garbage Patch The Great Pacific Garbage Patch, also described as the Eastern Garbage Patch or the Pacific Trash Vortex, is a gyre of marine litter in the central North Pacific Ocean located roughly between 135° to 155°W and 35° to 42°N and estimated to be twice th...
4. The History of the Can Pull Tab Learn about the evolution of the can pull tab. A nifty little invention that has made our life so much easier...and enabled people like me to add my passion for the environment to my passion for crafts and use the pull tabs in my crochet
5. Reuse It All - Zero Waste This lens is dedicated to reusing everything produced in a normal household as waste. As I collect reuse information, I will place it on this lens. Eventually, I hope to have a lens with tips on reuse anything and everything. Zero waste means a healt...
6. Time Wasters Websites that aid in the act of flushing your precious minutes down the toilet.
7. World Water Crisis Idea Girl Consulting - World Water Crisis-Did you know that Wired Science reports that, "By 2025, 1.8 billion people will live in countries with "absolute water scarcity," according to a report released this year by the United Nations Environment Pro...
8. Opt-Out! Freedom From Junk Mail and Phone Calls Fact: More than 100 million trees are destroyed each year to produce junk mail. 42% of timber harvested nationwide becomes pulpwood for paper. Fact: The energy used to produce and dispose of junk mail exceeds 2.8 million cars. Fact: About 28 billion...
9. John Piper: Seeds of Change Dr. Piper was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee and grew up in Greenville, South Carolina. He attended Wheaton College (1964-68) where he studied literature and philosophy. There, John met Noël Henry whom he married 1968. He completed a Bachelor of Divi...
10. The Perfect Flush A lens on the best way to flush most clogged toilets, that's what! You'd be surprised how easy it is. Especially if you've had the nightmare of standing over a disgusting mess repeatedly thrusting a plunger into the depths of yuckiness. No one wan...
11. Nuclear Energy, Your Opinion? In this time of dwindling energy supplies and growing energy needs, I will discuss the value of nuclear energy. I want to hear your thoughts!
12. How to get rich... Slowly Ever wondered how to guarantee being rich one day? This is a method that really works: This article is about simple low risk ways to ensure that you live and eventually retire in the style you deserve. You can work really hard and earn lots of money...
13. The Book of Rubbish Ideas This lens is inspired by the wonderful 'Book of Rubbish Ideas' - a no nonsense, friendly and entertaining read on reducing your waste. With a few simple changes to your lifestyle you can save money, reduce your impact on the environment and live a m...
14. Earth Day Projects Everyday The Little Things you can do: Earth Day is April 22, and often we wonder what we can do to celebrate it on that day. The question is do we really need to wait until April 22, to celebrate such an important event? Most people will answer No to this q...
15. Green Guide to Back-to-School The beginning of school is drawing near and for most families that means shopping for school supplies and clothes. This lens will help you to make some more conscious, green choices about your purchases.
16. Ban Jet Skis Jet skis are thoroughly unpleasant additions to America's national landscape. While they give the people who ride them a thrill, they annoy everyone else with their irritating whining noise, sounding like giant mosquitos. Jet skis are not only annoyin...
17. Food Waste Mountains, Biofuels and the energy crunch It appears that at the present time, we are facing a shortage in energy and a rise in costs, we are facing a big question on how and where the energy is sourced to reduce its environmental impact. We are facing a similar question on food shortages, i...
18. How to Avoid Rubbish (Garbage) Entirely Ever feel like you are going round in circles with the whole living ethically thing?  We (my partner and I) felt overwhelmed with the complexity of balancing fair trade, buying local, organic, ecologically sustainable etc.  We didn't feel i...
19. WASTE P2P Think of the power of Kazaa (back when it was a genuine indie p2p app) and Gnutella without the ability for them to be interfered with, or even eavesdropped on. Encrypted communications, private network meshes and the ability to collaborate and messa...
20. Save Electricity