Thursday Thirteen Things You Should Know About Product Labels (#21)

The source of my green educational Thursday Thirteen this week is Crissy Trask’s It’s Easy Being Green.

Thirteen Things about N. Mallory

1. Biodegradable: The Federal Trade Commission defines “biodegradable” as a substance that has been scientifically proven to break down entirely and return to nature within a reasonably short time after disposal. However, because most detergents and soluble chemicals degrade in wastewater systems, they don’t always completely break down into eco-friendly substances. Read the label carefully to make certain the product is made up of nontoxic, renewable ingredients.
2. Cage Free: While this label guarantees that
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Discombobulated Thoughts — January 16, 2007

• Wow, halfway through January already?
• I’m feeling slightly better, just some residual pain in my back and right side but not feeling like I’m splitting in half anymore.
• Pugly is acting very odd lately. I’ve been having to carry him to the car every morning to go to doggy daycare and sometimes I have to catch him to put the leash on him to go outside. Then there’s the weird matter of him not wanting to jump down from the car when we get home. Very strange little dog.
• I’ve been watching HBO’s Rome and I just love love love
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MP3 Player Vs. CD Player: Which is Greener?

Did you know that having an MP3 player is a “Green” Lifestyle choice?

I was surprised to learn this. Apparently, according to It’s Easy Being Green, if you download music rather than buy CDs, you are already making a “greener” lifestyle choice…even if you are only doing it some of the time. It’s still better than the alternative.

CD-Roms and DVDs are made of polycarbonate plastic which is not biodegradable. Think about all of those CDs that came to your
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2007 Goals For Living Green

Here are the goals I’m setting for myself to work on this year to work toward greener living. (I’ve chosen these from the book It’s Easy Being Green by Crissy Trask.) Through the year, as I check things off to my satisfaction or want to update the list, I’ll be doing it over in the memos/pages area.

• Use my printer’s sleep/stand-by mode.
• Turn off the water while brushing your teeth or shaving. Running the water continuously for just two minutes can waste three gallons of water!
• Buy a shower curtain that will far outlast cheap plastic ones; a shower
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When All Food Was Organic

I found an interesting blurb in the Parade insert in Sunday’s paper this week about organic food. As we all know, organic foods have become one of the hot topics in the grocery stores lately. Rather than question whether it’s healthier to eat organic-labeled foods instead the regular produce in the grocery store, someone wrote in to basically ask when it was that all foods used to be organic before. In other words, at some point in the past, all food did used to be organic, before mankind started messing with it, and the person wanted to
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Tags: organic food, farming, gardening, pesticides