Welcome to the Dallas iGreen Blog.
Ever wondered how you can do more to help the environment? This blog will be a repository of green initiatives in the Dallas area, as well as any interesting green articles you may find. You can click on the iGreen link on the right to see all postings under this category.
If you have ideas or come across informative websites, please send them to me and I’ll get them posted.
A good website for learning more about what you can do is http://www.Earth911.org.
Integer iGreen
Don't forget to recycle your cans and bottles in the kitchen area. Please don't throw any plastics other than clean soda/water bottles in the plastic recycling bin and clean beverage cans in the aluminum recycling bin.
Thanks Patrick for sending this our way! If you have any other iGreen ideas, send them to me!
If you are like me, I go to my computer first to look up numbers and locations. So when new phone books come out, they go straight into recycling.
Here is a way to opt out of phone books.
Millions of phone books hit American doorsteps unsolicited every year, to the tune of more than 19 million trees. If you don't want yours, join the 10,000+ already saying “no thanks” at www.yellowpagesgoesgreen.org by clicking on “Opt Out.”
Thanks Eleni for this great information!
An old classmate of mine from Emerson College is the Online Marketing Director at RecycleBank and she just sent an email that I think you will find really interesting. They just launched The Cycle - an interactive animation that helps answer the question of "What happens to my recyclables after I put them out and they are collected?" at http://www.recyclebank.com/recycling.
It's interesting to find out all the processes of how our products are recycled but it's also a really cool interactive component that I thought you might like to see.
Emil found this Dallas Business Journal article about a green courier service in Dallas. Thanks Emil!
http://www.gogreencouriers.com/
• The green movement is helping new businesses sprout up all over the Metroplex. ... Also out of the gate is Go Green Couriers. Formed by four North Texas friends with extensive courier experience, including Tony Hormillosa, the company uses only hybrid vehicles and bike messengers. It also relies on a paperless ordering and billing system. Hormillosa says traditional courier services create “a ridiculous waste of resources.” He and his Go Green partners are betting that customers will prefer an eco-friendly alternative. “Dallas is one of the largest cities that’s going green,” he says. “With the upward trend of gas prices, it just makes sense.” (Full disclosure: Hormillosa is the hubby of DBJ’s editorial assistant Shashana Pearson-Hormillosa.)
http://dallas.bizjournals.com/dallas/stories/2008/08/11/tidbits2.html
We received this information from Erik Anderson a few months ago:
http://www.stopjunkmailkit.com.
This site sells a kit that gives you step-by-step directions on how to stop most of the junk mail you get. The kit is sold for $17.50 directly on the site.
As a thank you to subscribers, the organization will plant 3 trees for every kit sold.
Thanks Erik!
I checked into some other sites like this.
http://www.greendimes.com/ has a similar program.
You can also go http://earth911.org/georgia/land/reducing-your-junk-mail/
Here you can get street addresses to send requests via snail mail to be removed from additional databases.
Just don’t complain to me when your client wants to do a direct mail campaign or some research and there aren’t any lists to buy.