Americans exchange some 7 billion greeting cards each year, according to the Greeting Card Association, so one has only to extrapolate to begin to imagine how much paper and ink are involved worldwide. Enter the reusable greeting card, which we’ve now spotted on two different continents.
Minnesota-based Regreet, for example, uses labels and mailing supplies that make it [...]

America Recycles Day (ARD), celebrated on November 15 every year, is dedicated to encouraging Americans to recycle and to buy recycled products.

Disney says it will spend seven million US dollars (£4.3 million) in partnership with three conservation groups to protect tens of thousands of acres of forest in the Congo basin, the Amazon basin and two regions of the US.

There’s no doubt recycling is good, but in many cases, reusing is even better. Aiming to keep its share of reusable boxes out of the recycling bin, Columbia Sportswear recently launched an effort to let customers request that their orders be shipped in boxes that have been used before.

Of 140 million cell phones sold in the US in 2007, only 10% were recycled, according to the US Environmental Protection Agency. That leaves a mounting pile of e-waste to deal with. Offering a solution is EcoATM, an automated reuse-and-recycle machine that makes it easy and financially rewarding for consumers to offload their abandoned electronics. [...]

The Telluride Film Festival, Telluride, Colorado September 4-7, 2009
The Telluride Film Festival features more than 40 programs screened over nine venues.

Imagine a giant Fashion store where everything s free.
When Kate Pears started up a clothing swap night four years ago she had no idea the concept would take on a life of its own.

One might think that a theme park of all places would be one of the least environmentally-friendly locations on the planet. Environmentaland, the world’s first eco theme park, has just opened in Los Angeles. It is created by Global Inheritance, a “green” activist group known for its innovative ways to engage kids in environmental action.

Year of the Gorilla 2009
Gorillas are on the brink of extinction. They’re calling on YOU to donate your phone today!
A coalition of at least 57 North American zoos such as San Diego and Houston zoos has a cell-phone recycling program coordinated through the company Eco-Cell who pays zoos and other organizations up to $15 per [...]

We all produce too much waste. We recycle a great deal but more can be done to reduce the amount of waste we produce. If you can’t prevent waste, you can try to get the most out of it by reusing items or giving them to someone else that can reuse them.
Reuse means using items [...]