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Issue #5: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Blog Carnival
November 30, 2007

Happy holidays! Once again it is time for us to present to you a number of fantastic reduce reuse recycle ideas from other green bloggers. Thanks everyone for contributing to this community-based conversation and sharing great personal experience and tips.

Christine, an American mom writes from Strasbourg - a city in northeastern France, – about what recycling means to her. “I recycle. If I don’t, it affects both people and the planet. As this is my planet, I feel an obligation to recycle as well as finding a joy in the act itself.”

To hang Christmas lights or not? With all the lights lit in your neighborhood, few of us have thought about the energy they are consuming (think millions of houses). Phil suggests that we decorate outside of our homes us without using light bulbs. Alternatively if you have your heart set on holiday twinkle, try out the LED lights – Rockefeller Christmas tree has 30,000 of them that use 10% of the energy normal light bulbs use.

In addition to the LED Christmas light recommendation Stephanie from Stop the Ride imparts other green Christmas tips, such as using comic section of newspaper or brown paper bags as wrapping paper and using newspaper, shredded paper, or plastic shopping bags for packing when sending gifts.

Dare to skip the holiday altogether? Treat it just like another exciting day in your life. Wenchypoo is doing just that. Amongst many reasons, she believes that “Holidays have become excuses to consume, wildly distorting the original meaning for celebrating these particular events.” Well, I must say, I more or less agree with her, about the holidays being hijacked by consumption part.

If you did not manage to avoid the damage to your bank account on black Friday, you may want to hear these tips from the baglady – being frugal and being green often cross each other’s paths. For example make your own sparkling water – avoid containers and spending $. Or you can be adventurous and make your own soap from leftover bacon.

If you did avoid the black Friday and want to get a gift that is good for the planet, Nature Mom Tiffany has just the thing for you. Reusable grocery bags from Mimi’s. Almost too pretty to put my carrots and squashes in. But it may just entice a non-reusable bag user to kick the plastic or paper habit. Good call.

Even though Al’s post is not exactly focused Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, we are excited to hear a green voice all the way across the Pacific Ocean from Asia. “The 13th ASEAN* summit held in Singapore shows promise of our region integration economically and brings various groups of people closer.” Their declaration includes increasing the forest cover of ASEAN region by 10 million hectares by 2020, reducing the loss of biodiversity in the ASEAN region by 2010, halving the number of people without access to clean drinking water by 2010, and more.

*ASEAN includes Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Brunei, Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.

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CindyW at Organicpicks

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