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Have a "Green" Halloween

This Thursday instead of doing a review, I am doing a post on having a green halloween. Mainly because I have no products to review. At least for now.

Costumes

Instead of buying a brand new costume, try some of these tips.

• buy your costume from a secondhand store
• rent a costume
• create a costume from the clothes you already own

Bag your Candy

Instead of carrying a bunch of plastic bags

• carry a reusable bag ( Saturdays post will hopefully be on how to make one.)
  
• carry a basket

Sweet Tooth

Were it comes to "greening" your candy the easiest way to do that is to buy orangic candy. It is much healther for you and the planet and it taste just as great.

Decor

If you decorate your house on halloween, this year try and

• rent your decorations
• use the ones from last year
• use decoration made from recycled products
• buy biodegradable decorations

Litter

The easier way I think you can green your halloween is buy throwing your garbage in the right areas.

Halloween Parties

• make invitations out of recycled products or send e-invites
• pick up all the litter on the ground
• turn down the lights
• use recycled or biodegradable paper plates
• have a reycling bin
• Have a Good Time!
  

Tip Tuesday: Buy Natural or Eco-Friendly Beauty Products

Buy Natural or Eco-Friendly Beauty Products:
Next time you go shopping for hair products, makeup and other beauty products try to buy natural items. Like physicians formula bamboo wear. The compact is reusable and the powder is made from 90% natural products.

Does Recycling Actually Work?

This Monday I am going talk about recycling. This summer for my media arts class we had to write an article about anything we wanted to. I decided to write about if recycling actually works, so here is the article.

Across the world millions of people have started to recycle to better the health of our planet. How many have contained living their lives without recycling. They think that recycling isn’t worth it for many reasons the first and most important reason would have to be, does it actually work?

On June 30, 1996 a columnist named John Tierney published an article called “Recycling is Garbage” in The New York Times. It caused a divide between people wondering if recycling was really worth it.

In the article he stated that “mandatory recycling programs offer mainly short term benefits to a few groups, politicians, public relations, consultants, environmental organizations and waste handling corporations while diverting money from genuine social and environmental problems. Recycling may be the most wasteful activity in modern America.”

It Basically means that he thinks that recycling is a waste of money because it takes a lot more money and double the energy to recycle, recyclables. It would mean that taxpayers would have to pay more money to get this done than to dispose regular garbage.

Even though this is true we should still recycle. It helps the planet and everyone in it. There are also the other two R’s Reuse, and Reduce. We should consider these two options before recycling because they can lower our garbage and recycling piles so no one will have to worry about paying more taxes or hurting the planet.

Challenge Sundays- recycle

Last week my challenge to pack a litter less didn't go so well. So this week I am going to choose an easier challenge. For the rest of the week I have to recycle whatever I can. It may seem to easy but sometime you can get lazy or forget to recycle, especially when you live in an apartment.

Creative Saturdays: Homemade Cleaning Products

This Saturday I am going to show you guys how to make your own cleaning products.
Cleaning products have a high amount of chemicals that can harm the environment and us, so next time you are cleaning your kitchen counter try out this simply and easy homemade cleaning product recipe.



mix 1/2 cup of vinegar



with 1/2 of water.
Personally I would just eye-ball it, and enjoy.

Review Thursdays on a Saturday

Today I am finally going to post my review thursday. This week I am going to be reviewing the Jenere Natural lip blam in peppermint.


I came across this product accidently in dollarama. I had fixed my lip blam the other day and was in desperate need of a new one for my super dry lips. I very wasn't in the mood to go surfing through the aisles of shoppers drug mart so I went to dollarama. I was reaching for my mom's favourite dollarstore lip blam, when I saw the Jenere Natural Lip Blam in Peppermint. As a Picked it up I knew I was going to like this product. The reason why was because it was two for a dollar, the second thing was it was peppermint which is my favourite flavour in lip blam and third it is 99.9% natural!

From that day on it is my favourite lip blam ever. It is so mositurizing and it is good for your lips and the environment.

p.s it is only a dollar.

Get Involved Fridays: Do Something Boot Camp

I am so sorry for not keeping up with posting these daily posts, but I have been very busy studying and doing homework but here is Get involved Firdays. By the way I am going to post review Thursday on Saturday along with creative Saturdays.

Before you can get in involved in helping the environment it may be a good idea to find out how you can and why you want to. Tommorow at 9:00am to 4:30pm there will be a live stream on how to get involved and run your run community action project.

To see the schedule go to dosomething.org
tommorrow go to dosomething.org/training to watch.

Tip Tuesday: Turn off the Water when brushing your teeth

Turn off the water when brushing your teeth:
When brushing your teeth turn off the water if not in use. This will help reduce the amount of unnecessary water you use.

Global Warming- True or False

There is a lot of controversy when it comes to global warming being true of false. You can have whatever opinion you want but here is mine. Personally I don't it matters if it is true or false. We should be taking care of planet if it is getting worse or it is fine. We shouldn't be throwing trash on the floor or wasting our valuable resources.

News Mondays- Earth 2030

This video was not created but me. It was created by a youtuber with the channel name xplanevisualthinking. I think this is a very important video to watch and it is only 4 minutes and 29 seconds long. so enjoy.

Here is the video link. If you want to talk about anything in the video comment down below.

Challenge Sundays- Litter-Less

This weeks challenge is very simple but has a big impact. For the whole week all you have to do is pack a litterless lunch. Buy doing this you are reducing carbon emissions and saving money. This also has an impact on you because bringing your lunch from home is much healther then buying a big mac with large fries and a coke. If you are participating in this challenge comment down below litterless and next sunday refer back to this challenge and tell us how it went.

Welcome to Pretty Little Planet

I am sure you guys have heard of my blog greenisthenewblack17, well know it is prettylittleplanet. I decied to change the name because I wasn't very happy with greenisthenewblack17. It felt way to long and I just simply like this name better. I have also decied to change my blog a little bit. I have noticed I havn't been posting lately so I don't to come up with this.

So basicly everyday there will be a post on the following

challenge sundays
news mondays
tip tuesdays
weekly wednesdays
review thursdays
get involved fridays
creative saturdays

Challenge Sundays will be every sunday when I post a challenge what you and I will have to follow through for the whole week. The next sunday I will post my experience and the next challenge.

News Mondays will be a post on what is going on in the world with the environment so we will all be aware of what is going on in the environment and what can we do to help.

Tip Tuesdays will be a very short post on a tuesday about a tip what we can do to help the planet.

Weekly Wednesday will be completely random or there will be no post on wednesdays just because I am very busy and writing these post take up a lot of time.

Review Thursdays will be a review on an eco-friendly product.

Get involved Firdays will be about how we can all help the environment.

Creative Saturdays will be about creating something using recycled products.

If you have any questions email me at prettylittleplanet@hotmail.ca