‘30 Days’

{30 days} Tip #9: Plant a small vegetable garden

{30 days} Tip #9: Plant a small vegetable garden

To promote healthy and organic eating, how about planting one of your favorite vegetables? If you’ve never tried it, you’ll learn something new, get some light exercise, save money and probably be encouraged to continue making healthier eating decisions.
Of course, if you live in a condo somewhere in Manhattan or Dubai, it may be [...]

{30 days} Tip #8: Replace a standard incandescent lightbulb with a LED bulb

{30 days} Tip #8: Replace a standard incandescent lightbulb with a LED bulb

Perhaps you’ve never thought of replacing your incandescent lightbulbs, perhaps you have. In any event, you might want to consider led light bulbs for a greener approach to lighting and energy conservation.
Among the many benefits you’ll realize are: a significantly longer life span per bulb as well as a tangible savings on your energy [...]

{30 days} Tip # 7: Support your neighborhood Whole Foods Market

{30 days} Tip # 7:  Support your neighborhood Whole Foods Market

If you’re seeking a convenient and practical means of living healthier, consider doing so through supporting a food company which abides by greener principles, Whole Foods Market.
Whole Foods recently won the 2009 Green Choice Award for their dedication to substantial, earth-friendly initiatives which inspire other companies to follow suit. In living up to their [...]

{30 days} Tip #6: Turn off the Television this evening

{30 days} Tip #6: Turn off the Television this evening

To help celebrate Earth Day, we’ve decided to combine our socially conscious tip of the day in conjunction with the mission of Earth Day. Therefore, we encourage you to participate in Earth Day by doing something green. Here’s our tip # 6: turn off the television this evening and do something outdoors instead. Save [...]

{30 days} Tip #4: Save hundreds of gallons of water with a water efficient showerhead

{30 days} Tip #4: Save hundreds of gallons of water with a water efficient showerhead

With all the discussion about world water needs, there are tiny things we can do on our end to indirectly aid the cause and of course, ourselves. One quick, easy and convenient tip is to replace your existing showerhead with one that is more water efficient. They are inexpensive, easy to install and can [...]

{30 days} Tip #3: Work from home for a day, save your environment and money

{30 days} Tip #3: Work from home for a day, save your environment and money

So this one’s fairly straightforward and probably doable for most of us. If you have the opportunity to work from home now and then, you should consider taking advantage of it. Not only will you save the environment from harmful carbon emissions but you’ll also save money. Simple, convenient, practical and all it [...]

{30 days} Tip #2: Loan $25 to a poor entrepreneur on Kiva

{30 days} Tip #2: Loan $25 to a poor entrepreneur on Kiva

If you haven’t read our first post on Kiva, check it out. Hopefully, you’re already familiar with them anyway. Today’s tip is for you to join the Kiva movement and lend a struggling entrepreneur a small loan. You don’t have to be a millionaire to do this, just have a few extra dollars and [...]

{30 days} Tip #1: Give a $200 laptop, change a child’s life

{30 days} Tip #1: Give a $200 laptop, change a child’s life

30 Days to Becoming More Socially Conscious- Tip #1: Give a $200 laptop, change a child’s life
Today is our kickoff tip to help you do your part in creating a more equitable and sustainable world.
Perhaps you’ve heard of the One Laptop per Child Program, perhaps you haven’t. If you haven’t, their goal is simple: [...]

30 Days to Becoming More Socially Conscious

30 Days to Becoming More Socially Conscious

We understand that for most of us here in the developed world, packing up shop and leaving our family and friends behind to start a hunger relief organization in a remote African village is not exactly practical. Doable, but probably not something most of us would be willing to do. Fair enough.
But that doesn’t [...]


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