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The 2012 Farmers Almanac
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8 Zero-Waste Tips for the Kitchen

Help us celebrate Zero Waste Week. Check out our tips and hints on ways to reduce your trash in the kitchen.

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8 Simple Ways to Reduce Garbage When Shopping

Help us celebrate Zero Waste Week. Check out our tips and hints on ways to reduce your trash when shopping.

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Digging Out from Holiday Clutter

Overwhelmed with a holiday mess. Don’t let your frugality take a holiday. Reuse or recycle that unwanted stuff!

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Keep, Reuse, or Recycle? What To Do With Clutter

Keep, Reuse, or Recycle? What To Do With Clutter

Stuff, clutter, things. Whatever you call it, stuff has a way of adding up. Should you keep it or get rid of it? Take this quiz and find out.

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15 Things YOU Can Do to Protect the Earth

In honor of Earth Day, here are 15 practical steps you can take toward living a more sustainable life.

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Motivating Reasons to Reduce Garbage

This Thursday is Earth Day. In an effort to help all of us be more sustainable and earth-friendly we will be sharing some ideas on ways to reduce garbage and conserve energy and natural resources. Before you toss—think about where the garbage will wind up. Maybe you can come up with a better alternative than… Continue Reading »

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Baby Steps

Today is Earth Day – a day dedicated to the Earth, a day that is meant to inspire awareness and appreciation for the Earth’s environment. What are you doing in honor of Earth Day? There are tons of ways that you can make a difference this Earth Day and every day. We’ve shared many tips… Continue Reading »

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Reduce Your Waste for Earth Day

Reduce Your Waste for Earth Day

Simple ways to reuse common items, and make less trash.

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Recycle Your Christmas Tree

Recycle Your Christmas Tree

The holidays are here and so is one of the best times of the year for watching your waste.

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If you notice a hole in the upper left-hand corner of your Farmers' Almanac, don't return it to the store! That hole isn't a defect; it's a part of history. Starting with the first edition of the Farmers' Almanac in 1818, readers used to nail holes into the corners to hang it up in their homes, barns, and outhouses (to provide both reading material and toilet paper). In 1910, the Almanac's publishers began pre-drilling holes in the corners to make it even easier for readers to keep all of that invaluable information (and paper) handy.

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