Look at these articles from Jan. '08 National Geographic

HIGH-TECH TRASH. - what's happening w/some of our discarded technology tools


E-HAZARDS. - what's IN some of our discarded technology tools


RECYCLING THE BIG PICTURE. - if you have access to the print magazine, check out the Glass & Paper Recycling Graph - we need to be better!

Going Green with our purses

The Big Green Purse is a blog about conscientious spending. The creator, Diane, believes women have alot of power to affect positive environmental change with the way we spend our money--what she calls our "green purse." She encourages us to spend wisely--Going Green does not have to cost more. Her "Be one in a million" plan is to encourage women to pledge to use purse power to have a billion dollar impact on the environment.

Blog roll please-EcoLibris

20 million trees are cut down every year to produce American books!!! Here is a green business that works with book related industries to balance out those staggering numbers by having readers plant a tree for every book they read.
Here is the Eco-Libris blog blog and the website. In an earlier posting about National Library Week one of the founder's of Eco-Libris interviews his mom who has been a librarian for 27 years. Let's get a blogroll going on the sidebar!

One More Newspaper Article

Make a statement for Earth Day with these eco-friendly products
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/200804100410/LIFE/80408040

Recycling of Electronics

Firm Offers Recycling of Electronics
http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080409/NEWS/80409028/1070/rss02

Battery and Cell Phone Recycling

I just saw an ad for this
call2recycle.org where people can drop off cell phones and rechargeable batteries.

Friendly Cleaning Ideas

One of my favorite charities, the Heifer Organization, had a list of environmentally friendly alternatives to cleaning in their recent publication of the World Ark Magazine that I thought may be useful. Their magazine is online and the list is found on page 6. This is the link:
http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/heifer/worldark_20080304/