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Going Green for Halloween: Don’t Spook the Environment

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October 31 is supposed to be spooky, that doesn’t mean you need scare away the environment. While you’re taking care of the earth during the rest of the year, don’t neglect Halloween! Go green on Halloween with these helpful household, decorating, and costume tips.

Use the whole pumpkin. Pumpkins are the go-to Halloween decorative symbol, but do you typically throw away the innards? Bake a pie with the insides, bake the seeds to a crispy crunch, and compost the shell when you no longer want to decorate your porch with a seasonal ghoul or goblin.

Going Green for Halloween

Walk, don’t drive. Instead of driving to other neighborhoods for trick-or-treating, stay close to home and walk from house to house to cut down on …

Going Green in the Kitchen

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If you’re not careful, cooking can be a wasteful affair. Between the waste produced from food, packaging, and trash, you could find yourself making quite the negative impact on the environment.

Clean up your kitchen act, and go green in the kitchen, with these earth-friendly kitchen gadgets, usage tips, and more.

Begin composting. Composting is a great go-green tool in your kitchen arsenal. Composting is the best way to recycle food scraps and peels. Instead of throwing these things away and contributing to landfills, compost them in your soil. You get the added bonus of enriching your soil, so if you ever wanted to start gardening, now’s the time. With the right tools, starting a compost pile can be simple, …

Going Green For Halloween – An Earth-Saving Alternative

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BOO! It’s almost time for Halloween, and ghouls, ghosts, and <shudder> scary clowns will soon be everywhere. But spooks are not the most chilling bit of Halloween – the true terror is what the creepiest night of the year does to our planet.

 

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It’s easy to celebrate in eco-friendly style and green your Halloween all the way! Check out our ideas:

1. Buy pumpkins close to home, that have been grown locally. Farmers markets and community growers should be your first port of call. And once you’ve carved them, try to use as much of the pumpkin flesh as possible in soups, pies and even smoothies!

2. Don’t buy a costume for you or the kids. The fabric …

Staying Green: Traveling Green

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Is going green a primarily at-home practice? No! For those of us who travel often, it’s important to go green on the road as much as we attempt to go green at home. In fact, it’s easy to go green when you’re away from home and away from your regular habits, if you follow a few simple guidelines.

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Today, we’re sharing a few of our favorite tips for keeping your travels as eco-friendly as possible.

Keep Doing What You Already Do at Home

While some green practices from home (like composting) don’t translate to travel, the majority of them are easy to continue when on the go. Try these green habits even if you’re at a hotel or on an …

5 Simple Tips to Go Green on Thanksgiving

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Can you believe Thanksgiving week is already here? With Thanksgiving right around the corner, it’s the perfect opportunity to go green with your holiday festivities. The holidays can create a lot of waste in households across the U.S. For example, imagine all the potential for thrown-away food and decorations.

Thanksgiving: Going Green

With Thanksgiving two days away, we’re sharing five of our favorite tips for a green Thanksgiving celebration, in keeping with our ever-present efforts to go green with our products and everyday lives.

Buy local for the turkey and other feast accoutrements. While you may not be able to get every item you need for Thanksgiving from a local farmer’s market or co-op, you can at least get your veggies and …

Water Bottle Waste: Why You Should Ditch the Plastic

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Water bottles might be convenient, but they’re also taking a toll on the environment. Here are some of our tips on how to be eco-friendly by ditching your water bottle habit.

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Why You Should Ditch the Bottled Water

Did you know the United States is the world’s largest bottled water consumer? In 2008, the U.S. used enough plastic water bottles to stretch around the Earth more than 190 times.

A lot of energy is used to produce water bottles, too. Apart from the waste of the water bottles themselves, a great amount of energy is expended in the manufacturing. According to The Water Project, it takes over 1.5 million barrels of oil to meet the demand of U.S. …

Too Much Green Beer Got You Down? 5 Life-Saving Hangover Fixes for St. Patrick’s Day! 

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There’s an episode of Family Guy where Peter Griffin visits Ireland to find his long lost family. When the plane lands, it crunches onto an Emerald Isle runway that’s knee deep in empty bottles.

It’s a comedic exaggeration of a stereotype, but it should perhaps come as no surprise that St. Patrick’s Day is celebrated around the world by consuming a little more of the green beer than is strictly necessary.

The morning after, it’s not just the beer that looks green…
The morning after, it’s not just the beer that looks green…

Don’t panic.  Help is at hand with our round-up of the very best hangover fixes ever.

  1. The Healthy One (with Alkaline Water!)

Hydration is everything and nothing hydrates you faster than alkaline water.  If you can handle …

Sticking with Dry January? How a Water Ionizer Makes Being Alcohol-Free Taste Amazing!

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If you were one of almost one-quarter of Americans who took part in Dry January this year, then pat yourself on the back. You’ve done your body a favor!

Below…learn all about Dry January and how you can use a Tyent water ionizer to make some of our delicious drink recipes:

  1. How to Make Our Delicious Dry January Drink Recipes
  2. What Are Some of the Alkaline Water Benefits from a Water Ionizer?
  3. How You Can Double Up the Benefits of Alkaline Water with a Water Ionizer
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A water ionizer gives you more energy to enjoy life!

What is Dry January?

An enthusiastic 23% of adults nationwide decided to abstain from drinking alcohol during the month of January – with a …

Waste Not, Want Not: Tips to Cut Down on Household Waste

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There are many pieces of the going green puzzle: reducing energy use, switching to local groceries, and using less gasoline, to name a few. But one of the biggest ways we can reduce our carbon footprint is by cutting down on waste in our homes. The average American produces 4.4 pounds of garbage a day—that’s 1,600 pounds a year!

Make fewer trips to the garbage bin! Image via clker.com.

Try utilizing these tips to go greener in your home, and make the world a kinder, less wasteful place for the future.

Pack a green lunch. How many times do you pack a lunch for school (or do you pack a lunch for your kids) that has much more food than …

Tyent USA and Super Foods

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What are Super Foods and What is so Super about Them?

 

 

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We hear so much these days about the so-called super foods, but I wanted to know what criteria are used to determine whether a food qualifies as super.

 Here is what I learned.  As with most topics of discussion, there are many variables.  The first one being subjectivity.  Being subjective usually translates to “in my opinion.”  While many experts agree which foods qualify as super foods, many do not.  It is subjective.  There used to be about five to ten foods on the super list, but in my research, I have discovered lists of ten, twenty, and even as many as a hundred foods …