#1-When it is cold in your home or apartment, keep your heater low or off and put more clothes on, you reduce your energy bill significantly. If you get hot you can always downgrade into shorts or whatever is comfortable.

#2-Instead of leaving all your appliances, laptops, t.v. , microwaves, plugged in, when you go to sleep just keep the important things plugged in and unplug everything else, this really reduces your energy consumption, I know I did it last month and saw a big difference.

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McKesson Corporation, the nation’s oldest and largest healthcare services and IT company, today announced the release of its 2008-2009 Corporate Citizenship Report and launched the McKesson Foundation’s new strategic focus on chronic disease management. Designed to minimize paper and energy usage, the Company’s new online-only interactive report tells McKesson’s corporate citizenship story through the voices of McKesson empl… Continue

University Studies Show Household Cleaners May be One Cause of Breast Cancer

In recent studies conducted by scientists at the University of California, Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, researchers found many household cleaners emit toxic pollutants that, over time, will lead to health risks, and may be one cause of breast cancer in women.

Scientists searching for the cause of breast cancer in relation to poor indoor air quality, identified a link between toxic household cleaners and… Continue

The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is a 10,000,000 square mile area in the middle of the Pacific ocean.

First discovered in 1997 by self trained ocean researcher Charles Moore, he named the stretch of ocean between the UK and China The Great Pacific Garbage Patch because of it's 30 foot deep and 10,000,000 square mile mass.

The area is about twice the size of Texas.

Since it's discovery, the area has been under study by environmental groups and Universities for it's negative impact on aquatic wi… Continue

What does our tree free, compostable packaging have to do with your healthy lifestyle?...EVERYTHING.

We knew this on a gut feeling level – but scientific proof and ‘the bottom line’ are often easier to track and convey in business conversations. Therefore, in the 3rd Quarter of 2009 we prioritized creating an internal Sustainability Scorecard with the help of a top consultant from the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UCSB.… Continue