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Reducing, reusing and recycling can have a big impact on our environment. Determine if you really "need" an item before you purchase it and this will reduce the amount of what you will have to discard later.
When you do have to get rid of an item, recycle it. Some great resources for recycling information are the National recycling coalition, http://nrc-recycle.org/ and Earth 911 http://earth911.org/.
Reusing items is a great way to help the environment. Often you can find great ideas at craft or home improvement websites on ways to turn something old into something new and useful! Also donating items to charity you no longer need is a great way to help others and help the environment. There are so many ways you can go green and help the environment, why not start today?

A Curious George doll bought at Toys "R" Us was found to be tainted with 10 times the legally-allowed lead level, according to the nonprofit group Center for Environmental Health.

When I first ventured into the world of vegetarianism (although now I am more of a pescatarian) one of my friends (a non-jew btw) asked how it was different from a kosher diet as it seems to be based on similar principles of respect from where the food comes from. Being that I am a simple "holiday jew" from Oklahoma, I was embarrassed by my inability to answer this in a fully informed way, so when I read about the recent rise of the eco-kosher movement on Grist, alas my questions would be answered. Evidently an entire movement is mobilizing through such sites as The Jew and The Carrot that features the intersection between Jews, food and contemporary life. According to Grist: