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Archive for February 2011

Make Money By Recycling Aluminum Cans; A Think About This Tip

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It is 2012 and we humans are facing a huge financial crisis – a down economy. Turn this difficult to your advantage by making money from your used aluminum. It is a great idea for a fund raiser for a not-for-profit and a fund raiser for your back pocket. Take your metal and cans in... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
February 27, 2011 at 7:13 am
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Buy Local and Support Your Community Like Billy Dec!!

Luis and Shawna Coronado at Billy Dec’s Blues Bash event. Green Tip - Buy Local!! Billy Dec, fellow blogger extraordinaire and Chicago entrepreneur from “A Chicago Thing” invited a group of ChicagoNow bloggers and 3 curbillion of his closest friends to an amazing party celebrating local blues talent at the Rock It Bar and Grill River North... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
February 20, 2011 at 10:16 am
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Green Tip #5-Use the New Sized Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL)

Replacing a 40 watt bulb with a new smaller sized CFL. Green Tip #5 - Use the new sized compact fluorescent lamps (CFL)  Guess what? Compact Fluorescent Lamps (CFL) are available in all sorts of sizes and shapes now. Here you see me replacing a 40 watt bulb with a similar sized CFL. Happily, the CFL puts out more... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
February 20, 2011 at 9:32 am
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Green Tip #4 - Stop Using Disposable Water Bottles

Green Tip #4 – Stop Using Disposable Water Bottles According to H2ox2.com  ”The Sierra Club reports that we are discarding over 30 million plastic bottles each day. That’s over 10 billion per year! In addition, we’re using 17 million barrels of oil each year to manufacture enough [disposable] water bottles to satisfy the demand in the... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
February 19, 2011 at 5:15 pm
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Green Tip #3 - Use Dusk-to-Dawn Compact Fluorescent (CFL) Light Controls To Save Energy

What is wrong with the above photo? Yep. The light is on during the day. Why? Mostly laziness. You see, we like to leave our front door light on all night for security reasons. Then the light never gets turned off. Ever. As part of my getting down to being green and saving money all... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
February 19, 2011 at 4:57 pm
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Green Tip #2 - Get Rid of Your Paper Towels - The Paper Towel Challenge

Shawna Coronado standing next to her kitchen counter where she keeps the folded towels she uses to substitute for paper towels. It works great! My goal for 2010 was to get rid of the paper towels in my family’s life for the entire year. As of this weekend I have done it - I survived the Paper Towel Challenge... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
February 19, 2011 at 4:01 pm
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Green Tip #1 - Donate Your Old Car

All around the world people are turning their cars in for recycling and reuse to both help the environment and help people in need in their communities. In England, for instance, Giveacar.co.uk is a social enterprise that raises money for charities by accepting donations of unwanted cars. Giveacar works in conjunction with a car recycling... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
February 19, 2011 at 11:43 am
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Money Saving Green Tip - Grow Your Own Vegetables - See It On My PBS TV Show Appearance

Money Saving Green Tip - Grow Your Own Vegetables - See It On My PBS TV Show Appearance
Shawna Coronado’s front lawn sustainable, edible, ornamental, victory garden. MONEY SAVING GREEN TIP: Feed your family by growing your own vegetables!! Feeding our community and family in a down economy is more important than ever and this season my sustainable, edible, front lawn vegetable garden was featured on a PBS television show, Growing A Greener World, which... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
February 19, 2011 at 9:58 am
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GN Book Excerpt -- Google; Setting A Corporate Community Example Of Bettering The Human Condition

View of the solar panel array on the roof of Google’s headquarters. This is a chapter excerpt from my book, “Gardening Nude,” which I published in 2008. I thought it needed a revisit. In this feature you learn about some of the amazing things Google has done to be green and encourage the Google green mindset to be... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
February 16, 2011 at 2:34 pm
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GN Book Excerpt - - Gardeners Who Make A Difference In Their Neighborhoods

The below feature is an excerpt from my book, “Gardening Nude”. Enjoy!! GN Book Excerpt – - Gardeners Who Make A Difference In Their Neighborhoods  Emily Larson, Gardener-Extraordinaire! Emily Larson was the person who welcomed me at the first America In bloom meeting I attended and volunteers to improve her community every chance she gets. She strongly believes in... Read more »
By Shawna Coronado,
February 16, 2011 at 1:57 pm
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