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.
Ok, so forgive that this is a little late, but here goes-the Texas State Fair Wrap Up from October...and coming, oh, maybe in January or Febuary or March-the Halloween wrap up :)
State Fair ‘09
The day started out oh-so-innocently, so peacefully…
Here we all are-before the beer, massive amounts of fried
food, and other assorted fun...
And then...
The food (oh, so many choices! If they fried a flip flop, do you think we would try it too?)
Marilyn with the fried butter...
Kristen with the cheese from a pump nachos...
and Craig with the...fried flip flop, perhaps?
Kevin made the Strawberry Ice look good...
Jason and the non-fried baklava-
Yvette and Andrea proving that it's ok to play with your food...
Samer chowin' down...seems nothing beats a corndog at the Fair...
What else did we do at the Fair besides the eating, you say?
Well, we did lots of things, and learned some things like...
The yearly 'almost-a-tradition' bumper car fun at 4pm is a real good outlet
for Steve to take out annoying employees with frequent IT issues.
Let's just say it's a good thing I couldn't ride in the cars this year.
We also learned that one too many beers, corndogs and general fried loveliness usually gets you sick, or, talked into Eleni's yearly double-dog-dare-you rides..
or, in Derek's case, a visit with the Po-Po?
We also learned that even the striaght laced, left brained, logical Finance people of our group can cut loose and have fun, like Evan here...
And we were also reminded of something we already knew-
that our company takes fun very seriously...and is a seriously great place to work.
Now, on to the countdown for next year!
With some funny things on it....including 'What Startroopers do on Their Day Off'
I know some of you all maybe familiar with this site, but hey, at least it's not Lol cats, ok?
Let's just pretend I'm (somewhat) original...
Happy Friday-
Enjoy!
http://wildammo.com/2009/08/09/what-stormtroopers-do-on-their-day-off/comment-page-4/#comment-561
...are you out there? Just posting to see if this even will be noticied...
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.
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I found this nice little article about how blogs are an excellent and effective way to meet all of your branding goals.
Click here to read the article.