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Colorado Loves Green is an eco-conscious community dedicated to growing a greener Colorado. We are your source for local green businesses, green-living news and tips, forums and events!

Screen your sunscreen!

Do you know what's in your sunscreen and how effective it really is?
EWG’s research team found that 92 percent of brand name sunscreens either don’t sufficiently protect skin from sun damage or contain hazardous chemicals — or both.
See how your sunscreen rates here: http://www.ewg.org/2010sunscreen/?inlist=Y&utm_source=sunscreensuba&utm_...

Recycle Your Garden Plastic

Check out www.gardencentersofcolorado.org for drop off sites to recycle:
Plastic pots
Hanging Baskets
Trays
Flower Packs
Be green while greening up your garden and yard!

Do you know someone suffering from Climate Change Denial?

It happens after a big snowfall. It happens when the weather turns especially cold. It happens when fewer or weaker hurricanes make landfall in a season. More Americans do it now than even two years ago , while most of the rest of world does it less.

What is this strange phenomenon? It is Climate Change Denial.

There are three main varieties of deniers: the uninformed, the misinformed and the conspiracy theorists/crackpots. While it is often possible to have an intelligent and rational discussion with the first two, the third type should simply be avoided.

Know Your Trash Facts

As seen on www.environmentalistseveryday.org

About 80% of what Americans throw away is recyclable, yet our recycling rate is just 33%. (Environmental Protection Agency)

More than ½ million trees are saved each year by recycling paper in Boulder County. (Eco-Cycle)

By recycling more than 57,000 tons of steel cans, we reduce greenhouse gasses equivalent to taking more than 21,000 cars off the road each year. (WM)

Recycling glass instead of making it from silica sand reduces mining waste by 70%, water use by 50%, and air pollution by 20%. (Environmental Defense Fund)

Stop the Bagness!

by Teresa Morris

Urban Tumbleweed – a carelessly discarded plastic bag picked up by the wind and blown about city streets.

They’re everywhere. They may be called “urban,” but these tumbleweeds can be seen in suburban, rural, mountain and aquatic environments. And unlike their namesake, these tumbleweeds don’t harmlessly biodegrade.