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Find e-Waste Electronics Recycling Center’s Near You

Find e-Waste Electronics Recycling Center’s Near You

Upgrade: FREE MyGreenElectronics.org is a great site from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) that has a wealth of information to help consumers Reduce, Reuse & Recycle their electronics.  The site includes a database of recycling centers and services that you can use to recycle your old electronics.  You can search the database by zip code [...]

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Paperless Organization with ShifD.com

Paperless Organization with ShifD.com

Upgrade: FREE Before I found this site I had an elaborate Task/Info Management system that involved forests worth of yellow sticky notes all over my desk and computer monitor.  ShifD is a simple, convenient and FREE way to go paperless.  ShifD keeps all your bits of info in one place.  It breaks things down [...]

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Eco-friendly Bamboo Computer Peripherals

Eco-friendly Bamboo Computer Peripherals

Upgrade: $600 Greenify your next desktop.  Instead of buying an all plastic computer get a monitor, mouse and keyboard made of bamboo.  Bamboo is a rapidly renewable material, easily recyclable, strong and flexible so it makes a great replacement for plastic. 

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7 Eco-friendly Ways to Put Those Old Floppys To Work

7 Eco-friendly Ways to Put Those Old Floppys To Work

FREE I was doing a little spring cleaning of my office and I came across something that I come across ever year… Floppy Disks.  I am not sure when the last time I used a floppy was, but I keep saving them just in case.  Well I decided this year it is time to [...]

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Bamboo Spring Chair by Modern Bamboo

Bamboo Spring Chair by Modern Bamboo

Upgrade: $690 This modern beauty designed by Anthony Marschak is called the Spring Chair, because of the gentle rocking motion it gets from the strong, flexible and rapidly renewable bamboo.   It is features a non-toxic finish, plus, the design minimizes weight and material waste.  Contoured and tapered to fit the body this breath taking [...]

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Eco-friendly Design - David Trubridge Pendants

Eco-friendly Design - David Trubridge Pendants

Upgrade: $500+ Inspired by the intricate patterns of ice crystals and sea coral, the Kina, Koura and Coral hanging lamps are beautiful and eco-friendly.  From designer David Trubridge they are made from Australian sustainable-plantation-grown hoop pine.  Trubridge was recently honored with the Natural World Museum’s 2007 Green Leaf Award for artistic excellence.  The Green [...]

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2x the Horsepower, 4x the MPG - Green Hummers

2x the Horsepower, 4x the MPG - Green Hummers

Upgrade: $28K-40K A Hummer with good gas mileage?  A bio-diesel that’s faster than a Lamborghini?  Is this bizarro world?  No, it’s the handy work of Jonathan Goodwin.  In a nutshell Goodwin takes gas guzzlers and gives them MORE horsepower and drastically INCREASES their fuel economy.

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Sagaform Trio Indoor Herb Planter

Sagaform Trio Indoor Herb Planter

Upgrade: $36 This minimalist planter by Sagaform would look great in the kitchen window and will provide you with fresh herbs right at your fingertips.  The Trio has 3 openings for three different herbs, that all share a wide water base that provides them with water and good air circulation.  A small hole on [...]

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UPGRADE & Recycle Your Old Electronics

UPGRADE & Recycle Your Old Electronics

Upgrade Two new customer buy back programs aim to reduce the amount of e-waste pouring into landfills every day.  Both ecoNEW and TechForward pay consumers for their old electronics equipment hoping to encourage new purchases and to keep these products, many of which contain harmful chemicals, out of our landfills.  The reclaimed electronics will [...]

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Sunday Funnies - Happy Easter from greenUPGRADER

Sunday Funnies - Happy Easter from greenUPGRADER

LAUGH! Here is a greenupgrader original from our passionately Green, wildly talented, shamefully good looking and honorably modest editor Matt.

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