Welcome to GO GREEN..BE GREEN..GREEN LIVING EXPLORED

Within this blog we will explore the hints, tips and techniques of living green in our own personal lives.

We are going to take a more conservative approach to Green Living. No, we don't have to become good little Republicans! We just need to take personal responsibility for ourselves and our community, and not re lie on the government to save the day.

Please, Please, Please!! There will be NO finger pointing and name calling here. There are 100's of other blogs and websites that have that covered. Finger pointing and name calling may make us feel good for the moment, but it has never helped solve one problem.

We will be helping each other to live the green life as best as possible. In turn we can help or friends, family and community. One little step at a time will make a big difference. So lets get started.

Saturday, December 24, 2011

Dear Customer, Your Inheritance Fund Claims Update. Reply by e-mail only.

2 EASTCHEAP CITY OF LONDON
Ec3M 1AE,UNITED KINGDOM
E-MAIL: natwestbankplc_uk35@yahoo.co.uk
Tel: +447024096459


Dear Customer,

The NATWEST BANK PLC, United Kingdom wishes to inform you over your unclaimed inheritance Fund Ј3, 800,000.00 Million Pounds Starlings (GBP) Deposited by your Late Uncle Mr. Larry Anderson before his death on auto crash . And from your Agent he asks us to cancel the fund that you're not willing to receive it.

Therefore, your advice to get back to us immediately and tell us what is going on. The Management board wants to hear from you. Send us an email immediately as you receive this mail.

Thank you

Mr. Barry White.
Accounting Officer.

Saturday, December 3, 2011

RE: YOUR ATM VISA CARD PAYMENT NOTIFICATION

>From Zenith Bank Nigeria Plc
RE: YOUR ATM VISA CARD PAYMENT NOTIFICATION
From: Mr. Frank Nkemakolam
Address. Plot 84 Ajose Adeogun Street . Lagos , Nigeria .
Phone Number: +2348034886018
E-mail: atmpaycenter_zenith919@w.cn

Attention: Beneficiary


This is to officially inform you that we have verified your contract inheritance file presently on my desk, and I found out that you have not received your payment due to your lack of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in respect to your contract /inheritance payment.


Secondly, you are hereby advice to stop dealing with some non-officials in the bank as this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to receive your payment immediately. After the board meeting held at our headquarters, we have resolved in finding a solution to your problem, and as you may know, we have arranged your payment through our SWIFT CARD PAYMENT CENTRE in Europe, America and Asia Pacific, which is then instruction given by our Mr.President,Goodluck Jonathan (GCFR) .

This card centre will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw your money in an ATM MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum is ($15,000.00) Fifteen Thousand Us Dollars per transaction. So, if you like to receive your fund this way, $15,000 usd for you to withdraw for a day and each transaction is $ 5,000usd minimum which you have to withdraw
$15,000 usd for one working day also be informed that the total amount in the SWIFT ATM CARD is $5 Million usd.

(1) Your Full Name :
(2) Your Address where you want the payment centre to send your ATM CARD.:
(3) Phone And Fax Number :
(4) Age and Occupation :
(5) Your Nearest International Air Port in your City of residence:


We shall be expecting to receive your information you have to stop any further communication with anybody or office. On this regards, do not hesitate to contact me for more details and direction, and also please do update me with any new development.

Thanks for your co-operation.

Best Regards.

Phone Number: +2348034886018
Zenith Bank Nigeria Plc.
Director ATM SWIFT CARD Department
MR.FRANK NKEMAKOLAM.

Monday, November 28, 2011

I have deposited the US$5,000, 000.00 with the ALINCO SECURITY COMPANY

FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA
OFFICE OF FINANCE MINISTER PAYMENT
VERIFICATION PANEL
Tel: +234 802-630-4087

Email: financeminister01@qatar.io

Attention: Beneficiary,


YOUR URGENT OUTSTANDING PAYMENT NOTIFICATION.


The office of Federal Ministry of Finance is hereby officially inform you
that we have verified your contract inheritance file presently on my desk,
and I found out that you have not received your payment due to your lack
of co-operation and not fulfilling the obligations giving to you in
respect to your contract /inheritance payment.


Secondly, you are hereby advice to stop dealing with some non-officials in
the bank as this is an illegal act and will have to stop if you so wish to
receive your payment immediately. After the board meeting held at our
headquarters, we have resolved in finding a solution to your problem, and
as you may know, we have arranged your payment through our SWIFT CARD
PAYMENT CENTRE in Europe, America and Asia Pacific, which is then
instruction given by our Mr. president,Goodluck Jonathan (GCFR) .

Finance Minister will send you an ATM CARD which you will use to withdraw
your money in an ATM MACHINE in any part of the world, but the maximum is
($15,000.00) Fifteen Thousand Us Dollars per transaction. So, if you like
to receive your fund this way, $15,000 usd for you to withdraw for a day
and each transaction is $ 5,000usd minimum which you have to withdraw
$15,000 usd for one working day also be informed that the total amount in
the SWIFT ATM CARD is $5 Million usd.

(1) Your Full Name :
(2) Your current residentialAddress to deliver the ATM Card.:
(3) Phone And Fax Number :
(4) Age and Occupation :
(5) Your Nearest International Air Port in your City of residence:


We shall be expecting to receive your information you have to stop any
further communication with anybody or office. On this regards, do not
hesitate to contact me for more details and direction, and also please do
update me with any new development.
Thanks for your co-operation.


Thanks,

Dr. Mrs. Ngozi Nkojo Iweala
Nigerian Finance Minister.
Tel: +234 802-630-4087
Email: financeminister01@qatar.io

Thursday, November 17, 2011

Scam Victims Compensation Fund Claims. Very urgent Reply now

UNION BANK NIGERIA PLC
PLOT 136, ADEOLA ODEKU
VICTORIA ISLAND, LAGOS
STATE NIGERIA.

RESPONSE TO THIS EMAIL ADDRESS FOR SECURITY REASONS; (unionbanremittancedept@gmail.com)


DEAR BENEFICIARY,

SCAM VICTIMS COMPENSATION FUND CLAIMS.

Good day, this is to inform you of your long overdue Compensation Payment In this office Files records over here. This department founds your name in the Central Computer / Federal Ministry of Finance among list of Scam Victim unpaid Compensation Funds and have to update your information by contacting you Through this email for your immediate confirmation response back to my Office without delay. The value capital Compensation fund amount of $2.800, 000.00 USD (Two Million Eight Hundred Thousand dollars only) is to your favor listed name for immediate payment.

However we received an email from one Mr. Mark Thompson, who told us that he is your next of kin and that you died in a car accident last four Months back. He has also submitted his account information's to the office Department for transfer of the fund payment credit to him as your Inheritor of the fund stated herein. We are now verifying by contacting your email address as we have in our Bank records before we can make the transfer into his account and for us to conclude confirmation if you are still alive. So therefore you're advice to stop dealing with those liars that they are only extorting money from you and you can never receive a cent from them. You're the last person on the List to receive this Compensation Fund. Again stop dealing with those liars.
>
> Please, if still alive, do urgently sending email confirmation by Filling in form details below thus as signification you are alive and willingly to receive your funds payment.

FORM FILLING SIGNIFICATION CONFIRMING YOU ARE ALIVE;

PERSONAL DETAILS
1. Your Name in Full======
2. Your Address (Current Address) =======
3. Your Country / State of Origin ========
4. Your Telephone Number (Cell / Home Phone) ======
5. Your Age & Marital Status===============


We sincerely apologies for all your past inconveniences delayed in paying your fund to your account.

PLEASE, CONTACT OUR OFFICE EMAIL ADDRESS FOR SECURITY REASONS ; unionbanremittancedept@gmail.com

Thanks,

Yours Faithfully

Mrs. Mary Ugochukwu
Foreign Remittance
Department.UBN.

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

Living Green 365: Plastic

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Happy America Recycles Day! Plastic accounts for about 12% of the trash that Americans throw away each year and it's growing fast.  Plastic recycling rates are far below rates for paper, glass, and aluminum. The good news is that several recycling haulers in the Twin Cities Metro Area have announced plans to collect additional types of plastic in their curbside programs beginning as early as January 2012. More information will be coming soon. In the meantime, here are some ideas and tips to reduce, reuse, and recycle plastic.


Reduce, reuse…

Skip the bags. Bring your own reusable shopping bag and skip the bag altogether for small purchases. Use produce bags sparingly.
 
Select products with less packaging. Choose products packaged simply, with no packaging or with a single reusable or recyclable material.        
 
Buy in Bulk. Reduce plastic waste by choosing the largest container for items with a long shelf-life like vinegar, kitty litter, shampoo, laundry detergent, etc.
 
Refill your bottle. Use products that can be refilled such as Restore's laundry detergent, dish soap, and hand soap. Retail stores throughout Minnesota offer Restore refill stations.
 
Reuse your empty pill bottles. Donate clean, label-free pill bottles to your veterinary office or local humane society. This helps them save money and provide free samples and pet medication.
 
Donate discards to art programs. Check with your local school or scout program to see if they accept plastic items for art projects. Artstart, a creative materials reuse store in St. Paul, accepts many materials for art projects including unused plastic bottles and other plastic containers.
 
Buy products made out of recycled materials. Close the loop by looking for and purchasing products with labels that say they contain post-consumer material.
 
Note, reusing plastic bottles for drinking water is not recommended. It increases the likelihood of impurities such as bacteria and the potential leaching of plastic compounds into the water.

…and recycle

Learn what plastic are collected at your curb. Most recycling programs in Minnesota accept plastic bottles with a neck that are made from PET (#1) or HDPE (#2).  Other products are usually NOT collected by curbside recycling programs – even if they are marked with a #1 or a #2.  Check with your county or city recycling coordinator and/or your recycling hauler to find out what's find out what you can put in your recycling bin.
Plastic bottles
Abide by the recycling do's and don'ts. Each recycling hauler has a list of plastics that they will collect as part of their service.  Do not put plastics in your recycling bin that are not on the list of accepted plastics. Placing other plastics into your recycling bin adds extra expenses to the program and does not lead to those items being recycled.
 
Watch for recycling changes.  Several recycling haulers in the Twin Cities Metro Area plan to collect additional types of plastic in their curbside program as early as January 2012. You'll receive more information explaining the program changes soon.

Use drop-off plastic recycling programs. In addition to curbside recycling programs, there are local drop-off locations where you can bring other types of plastic to recycle. Check the program websites and/or call ahead for hours and further information.
  • The East Side Co-op in Minneapolis accepts all marked plastics #1-#7 on drop-off collection days.
  • The City of Coon Rapids Plastic Drop-off accepts #1-#7 plastics.
  • "Gimmie 5"at Whole Foods program accepts #5 plastic containers (i.e. yogurt tubs, select take-out containers).
  • "It's in the bag" plastic bag and film recycling program is available in several communities throughout Minnesota. Accepted items include clean and dry (must be dry with all food residue removed) plastic film such as plastic shopping bags, bread bags, cereal bags, dry cleaning bags, shrink wrap, etc. Note: Zipper-type plastic bags are accepted in this program ONLY if the closing mechanism is removed.
  • Plastic bag recycling is available at several retailers including Cub Foods, Lund's and Byerly's, Target, and Kowalski's Markets.
Plastic yugurt tubs

Additional Resources

Recycle More Minnesota: A website dedicated to helping Minnesotans increase recycling.
Rethink Recycling: Your go-to guide for waste and recycling in the Twin Cities.
Earth911: Enter your zip code to find recycling events and recycling centers in your area.
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What do the recycling numbers mean?

Virtually all plastic packaging is marked with a triangular '"chasing arrows" symbol with a number #1 - #7 in the middle.
recycling symbol

This number is the resin identification code (RIC) and is usually found on the bottom of the container. This number only shows which broad category of plastic a product is made from. The number does not mean that a product is recyclable. Check with your county or city recycling coordinator and/or your recycling hauler to learn what plastics are accepted in your local program.

Most programs do not collect all types of plastic within a RIC – for example you can recycle plastic bottles marked with a #1 or a #2 but you cannot recycle take out containers marked with a #1 or a #2.  


Community events and resources

Join us for the webinar Powerful Messages in Unnatural Times - Why Storytelling is the "X" Factor in Harnessing Your Sustainability Efforts with Jeff Leinaweaver, Natural Step Associate and Founder of Global Zen. November 17th from 11:00am - noon (PT).

The 2011 Do it Green! Minnesota Green Gifts Fair provides green gift options and low impact ideas to celebrate the holidays from Thanksgiving to New Year's and everything in between. November 19, Midtown Global Market (Minneapolis).

Join botanist Scott Milburn for an outdoor winter botany class that includes in-depth identification and study of our winter hardy native plants. December 3 from 1:00pm - 3:00pm (Maplewood). 

Clean Air, Climate, and Health: A free forum open to the public. Hear from polar explorer Will Steger, Minnesota's own eyewitness to global warming, presenting his vivid, firsthand account. Fresh Energy's J. Drake Hamilton will describe effective clean energy solutions. December 7th in Princeton and December 8th in Grand Rapids.

Quick links to other MPCA resources


Send questions or comments about living green to the address below.
 
Sincerely,
Colleen Schoenecker and the Living Green Team   

This email was sent to stan6637.gogreen@blogger.com using GovDelivery, on behalf of: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency 
520 Lafayette Road North · Saint Paul, MN 55155 · 1-800-439-1420

Thursday, October 20, 2011

Living Green 365: Choose to Reuse

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Dear Living Green 365 readers,

Reuse is for everyone! Smart, savvy shoppers find they can often find what they want and need second hand, and be thrifty and green at the same time. Remember if you can't reduce - then choose to reuse! 
 

Choose to Reuse

Halloween isn't just orange and black - it just went green!


Swap it. Did you know that if you were to swap the costumes of only half of the children who celebrate Halloween you would reduce annual landfill waste by 6,250 tons, equivalent to the weight of 2500 midsize cars. And that doesn't even address adult costumes. By swapping costumes, kids get new-to-them costumes, and parents save money and the planet by reusing.  The National Costume Swap Day website  offers ideas for how to organize a local kids' costume swap in your community.

Shop thrift stores.  If you don't have a costume to swap try visiting one of your local reuse stores for great Halloween costumes that are unique, inexpensive and creative. For example, Arc's Value Village has a Halloween BOO-tique from September 23 to October 31. They even offer costume ideas at on their website.
halloween costume

Make your own costume. Raid your closet and unleash your creativity. (Grandma and grandpa's or a friend's closet works just as well).  Or if you're looking for a fun and creative activity to do with your child visit ArtStart in St. Paul. Staff from their ArtScraps program will get you started on a fun and unusual Halloween costume so you can create a new costume out of donated art materials.
 
Rent a costume.  CostumeRentals - a combined project of the Guthrie Theater and The Children's Theatre Company - offers a truly unique collection of over 30,000 theatrical costumes. Costumes are available for public use year-round and can be rented by individuals, business, and organizations for use locally, or to be shipped anywhere in the world. Reduced rates are available to schools, theaters, and nonprofit organizations.
 

Additional Green Halloween ideas

  • Use non-toxic face pencils to draw on your child's face.
  • Consider handing out recycled-content pencils instead of candy.
  • Use a pillow case or reusable bag to collect your trick-or-treat goodies.
  • Limit your decorations to a few, long-lasting favorites.
  • Find a pumpkin for carving or eating using the Minnesota Grown Directory.
  • Compost your pumpkins after Halloween.
  • For other great Halloween green tips visit http://www.care2.com/greenliving/holidays/halloween
recycle your pumpkin

More Ways to Reuse

Hennepin County promotes local reuse shops

Shopping reused gets you great stuff at great prices. It's easy on the environment too. Hennepin County encourages residents to Choose to Reuse by partnering with 80 retailers to offer great deals on used and rental items. Every year in Hennepin County, 32 million pounds of usable clothing and household goods are thrown away. Choose to Reuse encourages residents to reuse and help reduce the volume of waste thrown away.
Hennepin Co Choose to Reuse

Download Hennepin County's free coupon book for local retailers. Coupons are valid October 1 through November 30. For additional tips and reuse ideas 'Like' them on Facebook.

Twin Cities Free Market
Give and get items by using the Twin Cities Free Market.  The Free Market program is a web-based residential exchange program that specifically targets the exchange of reusable and durable household goods. As of 2010, the Free Market has grown to include over 150,000 participants and has facilitated more than 100,000 exchanges. Over 11.4 million pounds of reusable goods have been saved from landfills and incinerators!

Reuse Alliance – Minnesota Chapter
If you have a favorite reuse or repair shop or are part of a reuse organization, connect that shop with the newly launched Minnesota chapter of the Reuse Alliance. The goal of the Reuse Alliance- Minnesota Chapter is to bring together reuse organizations, environmental advocates, and resource recovery experts to discuss ways to conserve resources through reuse in Minnesota, provide community outreach about reuse organizations, and determine best practices for the MN reuse community to connect.

The Reuse Alliance Minnesota Chapter is also embarking on a project called "Measure Your Treasure" to create a voluntary method for reuse and repair businesses to measure and report their environmental, social and economic good deeds.  To connect with the Reuse Alliance Minnesota contact Arielle Courtney at Arielle@reusealliance.org.

Community events and resources

Dig deeper in to reuse options by watching a live webinar called New to You. This webinar explores how consumers can get the most useful life out of existing products and how some products can be repurposed to keep them out of the waste stream even longer. In addition to an overview on reuse, specific topics will include building material reuse, creative reuse, and online reuse marketplaces, October 20, 1-2:45 p.m.

Trees and shrubs are an investment in your home and can help you save energy or manage storm water. You can learn to prepare trees and shrubs for winter at Maplewood Nature Center, October 22, 10 a.m.-12:15 p.m.

Develop your understanding of sustainability by learning about sustainability research and policy at the Twin Cities Urban Sustainability Forum, November 2-3, University of MN Continuing Education Center (St. Paul).

The 2011 Do it Green! Minnesota Green Gifts Fair provides green gift options and low impact ideas to celebrate the holidays from Thanksgiving to New Year's and everything in between, November 19, Midtown Global Market (Minneapolis).

Quick links to other MPCA resources


Send questions or comments about living green to the address below.
 
Sincerely,
 
Colleen Schoenecker and the Living Green Team   

This email was sent to stan6637.gogreen@blogger.com using GovDelivery, on behalf of: Minnesota Pollution Control Agency 
520 Lafayette Road North · Saint Paul, MN 55155 · 1-800-439-1420

Thursday, October 13, 2011

lets-be-green.blogspot.com: Did you receive this email? Please confirm

Did you receive the email copied here below sent to you last month?
Please confirm good reception. 
 
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