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My cell phone plan is up and I’m looking for a change so I’ve been shopping around the different cellular phone companies. I prefer to go by word-of-mouth but it seems like everyone has very different opinions about each cell phone provider. I’m left to my own devices but I just got word that this company joined EarthMoment.com, they’re called CREDO Mobile. To my surprise, I learned they are a cell phone provider. Keeping in touch with your friends and family can also keep you in tune with the environment, justice, equality and politics. CREDO Mobile works in a very similar way that EarthMoment does, with every call you make 1% of your charges automatically go to groups like Planned Parenthood, Rainforest Action Network, Human Rights Watch, The ACLU, Organic Farming Research Foundation, GreenPeace, FairVote, Amnesty International and more - at no cost to you. So once again just by doing what you do you’re giving back. Thus far, CREDO Mobile has donated $56 million to progressive nonprofits. CREDO Mobile explains their mission best; “turning ordinary action into extraordinary change.”

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Why not?

I’m on board and you should be too! As they say “make a difference every time you talk!”

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Learn more about their plans, phones, beliefs and the progressive nonprofit organizations they support by visiting here, http://www.earthmoment.com/company/
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Not so guilty pleasure

Get a slick new phone and a guilt-free conscious!

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Don’t you just love pushing the little rewind button on your DVR or TiVO remote after someone says “what’d they just say?” while watching a television show? Well it’s not as great as we’d like to think it is. You’re actually using some of the highest amounts of energy out of any TV accessory when you have a DVR or TiVO. Oh and you’re wasting a bunch of money on your energy bill each year for that too. Yes I love those oh-s0-handy DVRs too but let’s play a little comparison game here; the average annual energy use a DVD player uses is 13 kilowatt hours while a DVR/TiVO uses 363 kilowatt hours. And here’s the part that will really get ya; that evens out to an annual cost of about $1.42 for the DVD player and $39.71 for the DVR/TiVO. But here’s one cool electronic that actually uses less energy and costs less than it’s alternative; a laptop is wise choice for your computer needs. A desktop uses 255 kilowatt hours while a laptop uses only 83, and the annual cost of desktop is $27.90 while a laptop is only $9.08.

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Why not?

Use this as an excuse to replace your old hefty desktop with a new laptop.

Not so guilty pleasure

Here’s a nice cheap DVD player!

http://www.earthmoment.com/product/
8880744/JVC-XV-N650B-DVD-Player

So you want to go organic but can’t afford to go all the way? Well here’s a list of the foods that you are the most important to buy organic (because of their non-organic alternatives that have such high levels of pesticides, chemicals, hormones, additives and all that fun stuff!).

Meat – high usage of hormones to speed growth and antibiotics and pesticides.

Milk – because of pesticides and chemicals

Fruits – these fruits; apples, peaches, strawberries, grapes and tomatoes have delicate skin that pesticides can seep through.

Vegetables – these vegetables; celery, sweet bell peppers and lettuce have thin to no protective skin and rate as some of the highest contaminated food products. Also potatoes not only are high for pesticides but also for fungicides that added to the soil.

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Why not?

Make sure you’re buying your favorite foods the safest way you can.

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Learn more about what foods are safer organic or what their alternatives are if you can’t find organic options, http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB116891484181777282-DAQv
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Not so guilty pleasure

Start your own organic garden with the help of this book!

http://www.earthmoment.com/product/
21548721/Organic-Gardening

Premiering today is the first all green TV network. It’s called Planet Green and has a bevy of hosts I’m sure you’ve all seen before. There’s a block of shows set to start tonight and Planet Green has got everybody from Emeril hosting his own green cooking show to Adrian Grenier from Entourage (the boy’s version of the show Sex and the City) hosting an eco lifestyle makeover series called Alter Eco to Daniel Sieberg, a CBS News correspondent co-hosting G Word with MTV’s SuChin Pak, an informative show on how to live a more sustainable lifestyle and they’ve even got rapper Ludacris and rocker bad-boy Tommy Lee in BattleGround Earth. Visit http://planetgreen.channelfinder.net/ to find out what channel Planet Green is in your area. I hope you’re as interested as I am to see how these shows turn out.

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Why not?

Maybe sitting in front of the TV will end up benefiting the earth, why don’t you try it and plop yourself in front of the tube tonight to watch Planet Green.

Bring it

Learn more about this TV network and read about other ways you can live more “green” by visiting their site, http://planetgreen.discovery.com/

Not so guilty pleasure

Maybe this network will be so great that it will make you watch TV again.

Toshiba LCD HDTV – Refurbished

By the way, LCD TV’s use less power than their alternative and this particular TV is refurbished so you’re re-purposing a recycled TV.

http://www.earthmoment.com/product/9343763/Toshiba
-42HL196-42-Inch-1080p-LCD-HDTV-Refurbished