At Greener Cleaners we often get asked if we’re a maid service. And quite frankly, the term ‘Tucson maid service’ gets searched more than ‘Tucson house cleaners’ and ‘house cleaners Tucson’ combined on the major search engines. Do you think people are actually looking for maids? Or do you think they’re looking [...]

Greener Cleaners is now listed as a ‘Green’ house cleaner on the Tucson Clean & Beautiful website.  Tucson Clean & Beautiful is a nonprofit organization that conducts environmental volunteer programs in was reduction and recycling, land stewardship, urban forestry, and beautification.  Trees for Tucson is a program of Tucson Clean & Beautiful.   Their URL is http://www.tucsonaz.gov/tcb/.
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Want to save paper?  Years ago it was said that printing would be virtually extinct with the pace that technology has moved over the last 10 years.  Companies such as Lexmark, Xerox, and HP have ensured this hasn’t happened as they’ve ensured printer accessibility has grown exponentially.
According to a presentation I read on www.njheps.org, [...]

Traveling for the Holiday Season?  Here are some ‘Green Tips’ to consider:
Turn your ignition off when you will be stopped or parked for more than thirty seconds.  Idling for more than thirty seconds burns more gas than it takes to restart the engine or than if the car were moving, and thus produces more toxic [...]

Here are a few kitchen ‘Green Tips’ for those of you who will be spending an entire week in the kitchen with Thanksgiving right around the corner:
Fill a bowl with cold water and wash fruit and vegetables this way, instead of letting water from a faucet run over them.
Make sure the kitchen faucet is in [...]

So yesterday I met with a really nice gal by the name of Patricia Morrison. She is a Shaklee Independent Distributor here in Tucson. I just had to tell you how excited I am to be working with her. I have not had too much experience with Shaklee products, with the exception of the Germ [...]

Cut back on wrapping waste by placing gifts in reusable bags or baskets.  If you prefer traditional wrapping paper, try to find a brand with recycled content and then reuse any large pieces to wrap presents again next year.  Between Thanksgiving and New Year’s, Americans produce an extra two billion pounds of garbage per week, [...]

More holiday Green Tips:
Instead of tying ribbons on your holiday packages this year, garnish them with recyclable paper bows (natural-fiber raffia), dried flowers, or a reusable scarf.  If two out of three households conserved an arm’s length of ribbon, the amount could tie a bow around the earth.
Rogers, Elizabeth, and Thomas M. Kostigen. The Green [...]

Use porcelain plates, silverware, and glasses instead of plastic and paper.  Each year, forty billion plastic utensils are thrown into landfills across the country.  Besides waste, you can save money, too.  Using your own utensils, glasses, and flatware is free, whereas the cost of plastic plates, forks, knives, and cups for a total of fifty [...]

Only 2.5 percent of students who live within two miles of school get there via bicycle.  Still by not taking a bus or a car, those six hundred thousand students are saving almost one hundred thousand gallons of gasoline-a day.
Rogers, Elizabeth, and Thomas M. Kostigen. The Green Book.  New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007.
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