Green Thinking for the Average Joe » books http://www.ecojoes.com Environmental news, eco-friendly experiments, and green mess Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:07:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Library Saves Money and Helps Environment http://www.ecojoes.com/library-saves-money-and-helps-environment/ http://www.ecojoes.com/library-saves-money-and-helps-environment/#comments Fri, 07 Aug 2009 02:24:15 +0000 ecojoe http://www.ecojoes.com/?p=725
The green movement is making inroads even in the lil’ town of Garner. I was in the library last week, lamenting my near-illiteracy while I looked for the picture book section, when I saw these two mysterious boxes in a shelf.
Library Reuses Rubber Bands
The library is now recycling paper and reusing rubber bands! Hoo-rah! They have a reservation system where they print out your name and rubber-band the paper to a book, so you can find your reserved book.

I guess they used to just expect you to throw away the paper and rubber band (committing a major sin against Mother Earth), but they have seen the light and are now reusing them.

Anyhoo, it’ll be good to see more and more business start finding ways to both help the environment AND save money. A hearty kudos to the Garner Southeast Library.

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Hot dang, it’s been nigh on a month since I last posted on here, back when perhaps the greatest human being of all time went to go join the Great Spirit in the Sky.

Anyhoo, some of you may be familiar with the Lorax, a fanciful creature who “speaks for the trees”, straight from the warped mind of Dr. Seuss, PhD. Here’s your chance to get a free PDF of an activity book featuring this true eco-hero.

Just CLICK ON THIS LINK to go and get your free copy of it! Go on, I won’t watch, honest I won’t.

Last, but not least, if you’ve got an attention span longer than mine, you may want to take a peek at this Lorax cartoon, which looks like it was made in the ’70s, based on my expert opinion.

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Please, no mas phone books
Phone books. You gotta love them. Tons o’ wood used to make tons of paper to be delivered to houses and immediately recycled (or thrown away). How to stop this growing menace?

I thought I’d opted out of phone book delivery last year, but just today I got “The Talking Phone Book” plopped on my front porch.

So, here’s a quick, easy way to stop getting “The Talking Phone Book” delivered to your casa. It takes about 3 minutes, so it’s a very easy way to save lots of paper, ink, and gas (for phone book delivery) from being wasted.

1. Click on the city nearest to you on this page.

2. Call the phone number.

3. Hit “0″ when the automated message starts.

4. Ax the operator to kindly stop delivering phone books to your house.

That’s it! Never again will you come home to find cruelly murdered trees in the form of a worthless book in front of your door again. Not on my watch.

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Maybe you already heard, but Alan Weisman wrote a book called The World Without Us about what would happen to the Earth if everybody just disappeared. I heard him on the radio today, talking about the research he did, such as visiting the subway in New York to talk to maintenance works. Anyhoo, it sounds like a pretty cool book, I might get it fo’ FREE from my library.

Without further ado, I present a graphical summary of The World Without Us.

Here’s another summary of what would happen to mankind’s creations if we disappeared. Weird that within two days, New York City’s subways would be flooded. Dang, it sort of makes you think…

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