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Greenise Just Got A New Logo and we are happy to share it with you. Check it out and tell us what you think.

Special Thanks to: PaulaMarie with Limelite Creative

Greenise teams up with AccessoryGeeks to help clean up the earth, and make it a better place for our kids.

We received an email from Tony Kim, Marketing Analyst for AccessoryGeeks, asking if we could connect and spread the word about this months contest. Which by the way is a iPhone 3G / 3G S Bio-degradable Clear Case. We jumped on the change to connect with such a powerful organization as AccessoryGeeks. These guys are not just talking about GREEN, they are living GREEN!

Check them out and enter to win! more…

Operation Guarding Angel needs all of you to help out and do what you can. Operation Guarding Angel is part of Gulf Coast D.R.T. and Greenise. Our mission right now is to give support to Angie Turner, a wonderful woman and a great friend.

On August 10th at 5:45am Angie Turner lost everything she owns to an arsonist. She barely made it out of her home alive. Please just take the time to read this post and show your support any way you can.

Here is a short article about Miss Angie’s situation. Click here to read

We are accepting all donations; cash, gift cards—Wal-Mart, Target, and any other national stores—furniture, clothing, electronics, and all beauty supplies, Please take the time to watch the following video and slide show. After the video, information to donate will be provided.

We appreciate all the wonderful help that we have received so far. Please don’t stop.

You can also send Donations to:

Gulf Coast DRT
c/o Dalton Dooly
321 NW Racetrack RD Apt# 2406
FT Walton BCH FL 32547

Items Needed:
Shoes – 7-7 1/2
Pants – Women size 2 or 4
Bras – 36C – D
Shirts – Medium
Furniture – All is welcome
Electronics – All is welcome
Movies – Dvds
Music – All is welcome

For Local Pick-up in the Destin, FWB or Niceville Please contact Dalton at 216-277-3464

AND TO ANYONE WHO DONATES WILL RECEIVE A RECEIPT OF DONATION FOR THEIR TAXES

Greenise And The Gulf Coast D.R.T. Need Your Help Once Again, To help out and do what you can. This mission is to give support to Angie Turner, A wonderful women and a great friend.

On Aug 10th and 5:45 Angie Turner lost everything she owns to an arsonist and barely made it out of there alive please just take the time to read this post and show your support anyway you can.

Here is the short article which about Miss Angie’s situation. Click here to read

We are accepting all donations from cash, Gift cards (to Wal Mart, Target and to any other national stores), Furniture, clothing, Electronics and all beauty supplies, Please take the time to watch the following video and slide show after the video information to donate will be Provided.

Thank you so much for all the help that we have gotten so far, Please don’t stop.

Please take a few minutes and click the donation button below and give the amount of a Starbucks cup of coffee, or better yet a month’s worth of Starbucks.

You can also send Donations to:

Gulf Coast DRT
c/o Dalton Dooly
321 NW Racetrack RD Apt# 2406
FT Walton BCH FL 32547

Items Needed:
Shoes – 7-7 1/2
Pants – Women size 2 or 4
Bras – 36C – D
Shirts – Medium
Furniture – All is welcome
Electronics – All is welcome
Movies – Dvds
Music – All is welcome

For Local Pick-up in the Destin, FWB or Niceville Please contact Dalton at 216-277-3464

AND TO ANYONE WHO DONATES WILL RECEIVE A RECEIPT OF DONATION FOR THEIR TAXES

Greenise Asked And Eartheasy Answered The Call on Water conservation, We were trying to find something on saving water and we came across Eartheasy who gave us what we were looking for.

Water conservation has become an essential practice in all regions, even in areas where water seems abundant.
In addition to saving money on your utility bill, water conservation helps prevent water pollution in nearby lakes, rivers and local watersheds.

Conserving water can also extend the life of your septic system by reducing soil saturation, and reducing any pollution due to leaks. Overloading municipal sewer systems can also cause untreated sewage to flow to lakes and rivers. The smaller the amount of water flowing through these systems, the lower the likelihood of pollution. In some communities, costly sewage system expansion has been avoided by communitywide household water conservation.

water conservation in the home… more…

After the week I’ve had seeing a email from Taylen Peterson an employee with CalFinder was a great way to end the week off, I decided to dig deeper and see what they are all about.

CalFinder, is a free service connecting homeowners to prescreened home improvement professionals. They’re dedicated to making the process of finding a high-quality, reliable contractor as simple as possible.

Drawing on vast industry expertise and superb online capabilities, CalFinder adds the personal touch of skillfully matching homeowners with first-rate contractors. A CalFinder expert uses information gleaned from a personal interview with the homeowner to match the homeowner’s needs with top-notch contractors whose qualifications match the homeowner’s specific needs. CalFinder provides excellent design guidance throughout the process.

The company follows up with each project to ensure complete customer satisfaction and to assure its referrals go only to contractors who provide high-quality work.

CalFinder was developed by homeowners for homeowners.

For some you might not understand why we have posted on this company, some might ask “Is this site Green?” or “can they help the environment?” the answer is yes the blog shows great tips on Green Remodeling and to go further here is what we found… more…

Greenise Starts Slaying Vampires and here’s how to hunt down the watt-suckers in your home.

After spending time In Mobile AL over the weekend, I had the chance to do some research and reading and found a great article on “Slaying Energy Vampires”.

In most American households, 8% to 9% of energy dollars are spent powering devices that are turned off. Even after you shut down everything and leave the house, many appliances and gadgets continue to draw power.

These so-called energy vampires (aka phantom loads or wall warts) can be quite inconspicuous. But if a device can be switched on by remote control, features a continuous display (like the small red LED light on your TV or the clock on your DVD player), or has a transformer at the plug (the cumbersome box that makes it hard to use the other outlet), you can bet the appliance is drawing power even when you’re not using it.

Even though most electronics draw only a few watts, they add up fast. Conservative estimates show that American homes consume 440 kilowatt hours (kWh) of standby power every year. At an average of 10.4cents per kWh, that amounts to about $45 annually. Altogether, U.S. households spend about $3 billion a year buying unnecessary electricity.

Alan Meier at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory cites even higher numbers. “In California, the average home has greater than 40 devices drawing power even when they’re turned off,” say Meier, whose estimate amounts to just over 1000kwh per household, per year. at 10.4cents per kWh, that’s $104 a year.

To make matters worse, the number of appliances that consume standby power is increasing rapidly. By 2030 standby power is estimated to reach 30% of residential electrical consumption in the United States. The solutions to this problem are mostly in the hands of electronics manufacturers, but you can reduce your own standby power consumption with two simple steps: First, pinpoint unnecessary power consumption, and then find the best way to kill power to the offending appliances when they’re not being used.

STEP 1: FIND THE PHANTOM LOADS

There are a few ways to gauge how much standby power your home consumes. The simplest is to turn off everything in the house and observe the electric meter. If you use this approach, don’t forget to unplug the appliances like your refrigerator that draw constant power and to compensate for appliances that you might not be able to turn off completely, such as a hardwired dishwasher.

A more accurate approach is to use an energy monitor such as a Kill a Watt (www.p3international.com) or Watts Up? meter (www.wattsupmeters.com) to determine the energy use.

Just plug a household appliance into the meter and plug the meter into a wall socket. The meter tells you how much power is being consumed not only when the appliance is on, but also when it is switched off. Once you know which devices draw the most standby power, you can prioritize the list of equipment that you will tackle in Step 2. more…

Greenise exposes the truth about KozyToez, Giving you the pros and cons and everything Eco related on this product.

To start off here is a video provided by: KozyToez

We found KozyToez to be a Semi-Eco friendly product, using Polar fleece, which can be made from recycled plastic PET(Polyethylene Terephthalate) bottles.

Now the reason we say Semi-Eco is because its made from a non-renewable natural resource: petroleum.

Here is a break down on our thoughts more…

Breaking Greenise News: Green lies exposed about Disposable Diapers. Do I have your attention?

Seventh Generation’s Big Green Lies TV Show may be one of the best shows in history for those of us who are striving to live a Green Life.

In the above episode Big green Lies exposed the real story behind the raging debate… Cloth Diapers .vs Disposable and which is Greener.

In the detailed report Big Green Lies investigative reports uncovered the following facts: more…