Granted, like you, we hate the phrase "living green" - Well, hate might be too strong of a word, but you get our point.  But sometimes it's the little things in life that make us happiest. 
When we first pitched Down To Earth in April of 2007, the first item on our "business plan" was to offer a Daily Tip every day - a little suggestion to our readers of things they could do to be better stewards, better conservationists, and frankly save a little coin.  Today, the later seems to be the most important - but the doctrine of conservation and sustainability is as important as ever. 
So today, like we've done every weekday since we started posting in May of 2007, we posted a Daily Tip - who said bloggers are lazy?  So why do we bring this up today?  For two reasons really - one because today's tip is hilarious (we think of course) and two, to make you aware of where the tips can be found, and more importantly to make you aware that you can embed a DTE Daily Tip widget on your own blog, website, or social network page.  Just imagine - daily content on your site that you don't have to produce.  Here's a freebie just for today

Daily Tip #182 - Recycled paper products

Name that movie reference.

“Here's how we see it. A guy puts a recycling logo on a product 'cause he wants you to fell all warm and toasty inside.  Ya think if you leave that box under your pillow at night, the Recycling Fairy might come by and leave a quarter.  How do you know the Recycling Fairy isn't a crazy glue sniffer? "Building model airplanes" says the little fairy, but we're not buying it. Next thing you know, there's money missing off the dresser and your daughter's knocked up, we’ve seen it a hundred times."

 

Answer - Adapted scenario from a DTE favorite “Tommy Boy.”

When it comes to buying recycled paper products, make sure you buy post-consumer content, meaning that the original paper was actually used for something and not just salvaged from the mill scrap.

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