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Green Ideas Archive
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Green Ideas: Swap Inefficient Appliances To Save Money & The Planet
As we’ve discussed many times before on this blog, the concept of swapping is a great way to reduce your carbon footprint and our collective impact on the environment. That’s not the only way that swapping can help the environment. Swapping out your old, inefficient household appliances for new eco-friendly models can greatly reduce your footprint while [...] -
Green Ideas: 5 Ways To Get Your Pet Involved In The Green Movement
Dog = man’s best friend. Man = great waster of resources. By the transitive property of geometry (sort of), dogs (and other pets for the matter) = great waster of resources. We spend so much time figuring out ways to make our own lives a little greener, we sometimes forget how much pet ownership impacts [...] -
Green Ideas: 5 Easy Ways To Be A Hero And Save The Planet
Habits are easy to make and hard to break. We all know that the smallest steps can sometimes add up to make the biggest difference. The Swap.com team is all about spreading Green Ideas, so here are five quick green habits you should get into now (so you’ll never even have to break them): 1. Bring [...] -
Green Ideas: 5 Tips for Conserving Energy in the Summer Heat
As we surge forward into the dreaded hot months of summer the only thing most of us can think about is how high we can crank up the AC without causing a power outage. But let’s face it, while air conditioning makes us more pleasant to deal with (unless you’re one of those rare few [...] -
Green Ideas: Ride a Bike Where You Like in Boston
As Queen front-man Freddy Mercury once famously crooned, “I want to ride my bicycle, I want to ride it where I like.” In Boston you’ll soon be able to do just that. With the launch of a new bicycle sharing system, the New Balance Hubway, Boston is about to get a little greener, and a little [...] -
Green Ideas: Five Fun Ways to Reuse Old Clothes
Let’s be honest, how many of us actually wear every piece of clothing in our closet? Personally, I know I only wear maybe 80% of all the clothes I own on a regular basis. And that’s being generous. Instead of letting those old clothes just sit around and take up space, we’ve thought up FIVE [...] -
Five Ways to Swap the Treadmill for a Greener Workout
If we’re talking green businesses, we are certainly not talking commercial gym facilities. Think about it: gyms use an astronomical amount of electricity not just to power all of those treadmills and elliptical machines, but also to provide you with a comfortable air conditioned atmosphere, complete with television screens as far as the eye can [...] -
Green Ideas: Neighbors Set Up Swap Shop at Local Landfill
Residents near Wilmington, NC have found a great new way to get free stuff for their homes and help the environment at the same time. City officials have set up a “swap shop” near the landfill where local residents can leave behind household items they no longer need for anyone to take, free of charge. [...] -
Swap of the Day: Get Your Own Private Driver
Ditch the taxi – swap your regular ride and arrive at your destination in style with your very own (temporarily at least) private driver. How you ask? Thanks to Uber, private drivers are no longer just for the upper echelon of society. Uber is the VIP private driver service that allows members to request a [...] -
Five Things You Can Do To Swap Your Old VHS Tapes
In the 80’s and 90’s many of us amassed huge collections of our favorite movies and TV shows on VHS. They were lots of fun, but with DVDs and Blue-Ray discs now ruling the home video market it’s hard to know what to do with all these tapes sitting in our basement. Selling or donating [...]