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Friday, January 04, 2008
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Lose 50 Pounds This Year, Even if You’re Fit
 The GreenDimes diet is the easiest way I've seen to lose weight. Beats missing out on carbs...or protein, or whatever that beach diet calls for. This before pic was borrowed from a blogger fan who kept a year's stack of catalogs before GreenDimes. Coming in at a cool 55 pounds, his stack had 90% tree fat and a wasted water index of some big number. (you try being clever on New Years Day)
The only thing you'll miss is the carbon.
Happy New Years. -Sanjiv
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Friday, December 21, 2007
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A Specific Case of How Tree-Planting Helps
Current mood:  blissful
Category: Blogging
 Trees for the Future would like to thank you fellow GreenDimers for all your tree-planting efforts, and specifically for helping a village (I don't know if I agree with "adopting a village.")
Two thoughts:
(1) Sometimes the notion of tree-planting is vague. Here, we see something specific that you have done. Basically, in 1991, a volcano in Botolan, Phillipines covered crops and homes in ash and left a toxic landscape. By helping the community plant trees, organic material has returned to soil, yielding more crops and adding more timber. All told, an additional 186,000 trees will be planted in the area.
(2) The Phillipinos have been dealing with this problem since 1991?!
Thanks GreenDimers,
-Sanjiv
Senior Citizen Night in Botolan, who's with me?
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
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Sending Your Holiday Cheer
Current mood:  adored
Category: Blogging
 If you are not reading this, it's probably because you are standing in line at the post office to mail your holiday packages. Trust me, I know. I was just there (although only to get my bills in the mail).
The USPS has estimated that 20 *billion* cards and gifts will be sent this holiday season... and man oh man, that's a lot of mail. Albeit the kind of mail you do want, the kind you anticipate all year, the kind that sends you running to your mailbox in excitement. You mean you don't run to your mailbox in excitement?
But if today passed you by and now you have missed the mailing deadlines promised for Christmas delivery, never fear... GreenDimes is here. You can always send someone our service online, even print out a gift certificate if you are feeling crafty. I told the woman standing in front of me about us, just after the mail clerk had to break the news that her gift would not, in fact, be delivered by Christmas. She was psyched. And you should be too!
Click here to get your last-minute holiday gifts taken care of. No lines. No nasty mail clerks.
Your mailing maven,
Kendra
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Sunday, December 16, 2007
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Introducing JunkFreeMan
Current mood:  adventurous
GreenDimes Fan Art Tee/Tote Winner So excited! Our first piece of fan art. I knew our fans could come up with a better eco-hero and villain. Hopefully, there are lots more to come. First Fifty Fans who submit a superhero/villain pic (or other fan art) get a GreenDimes American Apparel® T-Shirt and a Comedy Central "AddressTheMess" Tote. I guess you can't paste the pic onto the comment section, but you can provide a link to your art like our winner here. -Sanjiv JunkFreeMan v. General Junk 
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Friday, December 14, 2007
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ECO-Toys for Tots!
Current mood:  animated
Hey, when the kid wants that action figure, I'm not here to tell you no. Here's just another alternative. Imagiplay has a whole series of earth-friendly toys. Their toys are generally made from chemical-free rubberwood or fast-growing sustainable bamboo. The manufacturers are paid a fair wage, and provided a safe environment to work. Imagiplay is approved by Co-Op America and Toys with Integrity. Some of the toys were a little pricey, others were not.
-Sanjiv
GreenDimes Team
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How to Fix Your Plastic Bag Woes
Current mood:  awake
Weekly Shameless Promotion Series : The GreenDimes Bag Add-On
ChicobagwebphotoAlright, not as shameless as you think. A GreenDimer wanted details about our bag, so here goes. (I edited this from our manufacturers Chico-Bag's website)
THE FACTS ABOUT SINGLE-USE BAGS
* If everyone in the United States tied their annual consumption of plastic bags together in a giant chain, the chain would reach around the Earth not once, but 760 times!
* According to the American Forest and Paper Association, the U.S. alone uses 10 billion paper grocery bags, requiring 14 million trees to be cut down.
* Plastic bags don't biodegrade, they photo-degrade—breaking down into small toxic bits contaminating soil and waterways and entering the food-chain when mistaken for zooplankton or jellyfish.
THE FACTS ABOUT THE REUSABLE GREENDIMES CHICO-BAG
Design: Designed to be unforgettable! Fits in a pocket or purse! Carabineer for your belt loop.
Material: Made of strong and durable woven nylon.
Pouch Size: Integrated Pouch measures approximately 3" by 4".
Bag Size: The ChicoBag measures approximately 18" by 18" when un-stuffed.
Weight & Capacity: 1.5 oz, 20 Pound Capacity.
Washing: Machine washable cold, hang to dry.
Manufacturing: ChicoBags are manufactured by a fair labor, fair wage manufacturing company in China. This allows us to make adopting a reusable bag habit affordable for the majority. Through our interactions and friendships, we believe that we are making a positive environmental and social impact in Asia.
Warranty: Each ChicoBag comes with a one year warranty from the date of purchase.
Recycling: ChicoBag has a recycling program for expired ChicoBags so you can feel good about supporting us. Expired ChicoBags will be repurposed into door mats, dog beds and prayer flags.
Reviews:
"The ChicoBags have sold so much better than our canvas bags" -Draeger's Supermarket
"ChicoBags are the perfect way to cut down on the wasteful use of paper and plastic. What makes them better than many other bags is their compact nature. Now, there's no longer any excuse for not having a bag with you!" - Ed Begley Jr., Actor and Activist
**Well, there you have it. If Ed Begley Jr likes them, who are we to say no.
-Sanjiv
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Thursday, December 06, 2007
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Adopt A Snowman
Current mood:  breezy
Category: Blogging
Weekly Eco-Oddity Series
Sanj's Pic (Top) Luna's Pic (Middle) Kendra's Pic (Bottom Right) [Pics blurry b/c enlarged, clear on site]
So yesterday, I blogged about some fairly weighty stuff. So we need to lighten it up. Some creative dude out in LA started a snowman orphanage website called saveasnowman.org
It's really quirky. Not even 100% sure what it does. I think if you 'adopt' a snowman, it'll go toward global cooling projects to save the snowmen.
The snowmen's families have all 'melted.' They have hobbies, and likes/dislikes. Some snowmen 'found' near glaciers were born around the dawn of time. Stuff like it. Pretty fun way to think about environmental concerns.
Enjoy, and comment who has the best Snowman: Sanj, Luna, or Kendra?
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Saturday, December 01, 2007
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The greening of... websites?
This is a first for me... but kinda cool, no?
Our web designer extraordinaire sent us this link today to check out. This site, CO2Stats, adds up the time users spend on your site and calculates/ translates that into the amount of carbon dioxide used to power the computers and servers involved. Huh.
The cool part is that the company pays the equivalent used to offset your sites 'footprint' to Sustainable Travel International. Check it out today, get the code onto your site and see the offsets put to good use.
Happy Friday!
Kendra
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Sunday, December 02, 2007
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Why are Green Superheroes so Lame?
 First of all, it took me forever to even find one. Eco-man? Dr. Environment. Green Lantern doesn't count. There weren't even any bad guys who wanted who wanted to pollute the planet (Lieutenant CO2)? The best we could do were mascots, Woodsy, Smokey the Bear was kinda cool. But I remember,there was some green superhero. Who was it? When finally I stumbled upon the answer...
Captain Planet and the Planeteers?! I'm not kidding. Sounds like a name I'd invent for a green parody band. It's him and some kid planeteers, turning off light switches, I don't know. He's not even green. And if you think about that pic for a second, his face is blue, which means his skin is blue, which means he's wearing a sleeve-less midriff, gloves, and go-go boots, and not much else. We can do better This is a call out. First one to draw a decent superhero gets a FreeMe! (our junk mail service), a tee shirt, a tote, whatever, I'll pay for it myself. The rest get a tee or tote. Upload it into the comment section. Here an idea, draw GreenDimes v a Junk Mailer locked in battle. Your Junk Mail Destroyer, -Sanjiv
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Sunday, November 25, 2007
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The Car That Emits Water Vapor and on Sale
Did anyone catch that Honda FCX commercial? Zero emission car? Hydrogen fuel cells? Emits water vapor? Available soonish? (alright, enough with the questions) I had to check it out myself...
Turns out to true. Here's all you need to do to. Move to Torrance, Irvine, or Santa Monica , CA because that's where the hydrogen refueling stations are. Then, this summer, sign up for a 3-year $600 a month lease (includes maintenance and collision insurance), and pick up one of 1000 available.
Okay, so obviously, this car has a few limitations, but it makes a great commuter car if you live in Southern California. It goes about 270 miles and can reach 100 miles per hour. Apparently it has great pick up, and runs smoother than our current cars.
How does it run? The hydrogen fuel cell converts the H2 and O2 into electricity (that's hydrogen, which won most available element in the universe)
Oh, and their upholstery is made from a plant-based bio-fabric.
Kudos, Honda (someone wake up GM please)
- Sanjiv
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The GreenDimes diet is the easiest way I've seen to lose weight. Beats missing out on carbs...or protein, or whatever that beach diet calls for. This before pic was borrowed from a blogger fan who kept a year's stack of catalogs before GreenDimes. Coming in at a cool 55 pounds, his stack had 90% tree fat and a wasted water index of some big number. (you try being clever on New Years Day)
