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Tips for Yard Sale Success

Market your yard sale, grab friends and family, and more!
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Green America’s Directory of Sustainable Gifts, Holidays, and Special Occasions

A short guide and directory to greening holidays and special occasions

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DIY: Indoor Worm Compost

How to start your own compost in just a few easy steps!
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Your 15-Minute, $15 Garden

Gardening doesn’t have to be expensive. With just a few supplies, you could get started...right now!
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TRUE TALE: How Robert Haley is going zero-waste at home, while working to make his zero-waste by 2020.

When Robert Haley was a kid growing up in the ’60s, he collected Coke bottles for a nickel or dime. Today, Haley is the Zero Waste Manager for the San Francisco Department of the Environment and he recycles a lot more than just bottles and cans. After working for both the nonprofit and for-profit…

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The Role of Receipts In Shopping While Black

For some shoppers, skipping the receipt isn't always a viable option.

Go Green With Cloth Diapers

Are disposable plastic or reusable cloth diapers better for the environment and for the babies themselves?
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Energy Efficient TV: Green and Climate-Friendly Televisions

Is it time for a new TV? Make sure you keep in mind the environmental impacts of this big purchase.
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Reuse and Upcycle: Online Shopping for Used Items

Check out these online shopping options. Reusing and upcycling items is an important part of keeping waste out of landfills.
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6 Popular Composting Options

What kind of fertilizer do you need? What kind of waste are you composting? Get your compost questions answered.
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Uncrustables Go Non-GMO

Smuckers removes GMOs and high fructose corn syrup from Uncrustables, its very popular peanut butter and jelly product for kids. Green America's GMO Inside campaign has mobilized tens of thousands of consumers to ask Smuckers to remove GMOs from its products.

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Tell CVS To Keep Making Progress

Thank CVS for ramping up digital receipts and phenol-free paper. Encourage it to continue this great progress on waste and water reduction and toxic chemical exposure.

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Tell CVS To Keep Making Progress

Thank CVS for ramping up digital receipts and phenol-free paper. Encourage it to continue this great progress on waste and water reduction and toxic chemical exposure.

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Tell Congress to Break Free from Plastic Pollution

*/ /*-->*/ /*-->*/ /*-->*/ This Plastic Free July, ask your elected officials to support the Break Free from Plastic Pollution Act! Green America is proud to be one of over 400 advocacy groups supporting this ground-breaking legislation,…

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Plastics Industry Uses the Pandemic to Boost Production

By Beth Porter The COVID-19 crisis has touched every aspect of our society and laid bare the fundamental, unjust problems in many of our systems, particularly in healthcare, agriculture, and housing. The waste system is also one that has been…

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Dangers of Flushing Those “Flushable” Wipes

By Beth Porter If the label says "flushable," then wet wipes should be able to go down the toilet, right? Unfortunately, no. Flushable wipes aren't as flushable as advertised. But people are flushing wipes down toilets – and this is causing…

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