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Ok, cancel that expensive, high carbon trip to Copenhagen - you can do a lot to save money, energy, and reverse climate change right from home. In our ongoing effort to bring you positive steps that you can take in your daily life to conserve, eliminate waste or turn it into resources, here are our Top 20 Waste and Money Saving Steps you can take to reverse climate change. We culled these from a larger list of 50 simple things that everyone can do to reduce global warming.

Here’s our top 20, se… Continue

From Gawky Green of Two Girls Go Green

I’m sitting in Starbucks. It’s snowing. It’s Michigan and it’s December, so I guess I am not that surprised. But that doesn’t negate the fact that I am cold. And one [of the many] thing(s) I hate about cold weather is that it leaves my fashion wardrobe limited. Not only do I lack motivation to dress any way but comfy, there are only so many variations of long sleeves, long pants and boots.

Alas, this is why I appreciate fashion designers like Gail Travis… Continue

I’ve heard people say that adopting a pet is a little like recycling.

Actually, I don’t like that analogy. It’s not at all like recycling. It’s more like upcycling.

Recycling implies that something has outlived its usefulness and needs to be re-invented into something else.

I don’t believe that’s any truer of pets than it is of old folks or cast iron cookware. We don’t change pets, they change us. We’re the ones who get recycled in this scenario. Pets transform us into the people we were mean… Continue

A core value in my consulting work with corporations is that CSR will only be effective and sustainable if it is aligned with the company’s business mission. So it’s exciting to see an innovative iteration of that principle where a company develops a new investment vehicle that could potentially drive entrepreneurship and facilitate wealth accumulation in developing countries.

“If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepr… Continue