Do you like Mosquitoes as much as I do?

I very much enjoy being outdoors. One of our family’s favorite things to do is to go camping and at present we have been fulltime RVing for 1 year. As our family includes three dogs they are full timing with us. Unfortunately in our area mosquitoes can be classified as one of our “State Birds”. Keeping mosquitoes away from our children and pets seems to be a fulltime job.

It’s commonly known that mosquitoes can carry the Heartworm Larva that can infect and eventually kill your dog. Using a product such as Heartgard is strongly recommended in the fight against Heartworm.

Along with using a treatment such as Heartgard we use a product from BioGreen Systems called BioSol to help keep the mosquitoes away from them in the first place. BioSol mixed with water makes an economical non-toxic mosquito repellent that when sprayed on the fur of your pet will help keep mosquitoes and other pests away.

BioSol is effective and safe to use on our skin also, and is non-toxic so it will not be dangerous to ourselves, our children and our pets. Using common name brand bug repellents can be dangerous to our health especially with young children who may be inclined to put their fingers in their mouths. Our pets are also at risk because of their tendency to lick things. BioSol is non-toxic and at most will leave a bad taste in their mouths.

This is only one of BioSol’s many uses. To learn more visit: http://www.goinggreen2day.com/Feature%20Product%20Archives.htm#BioSol…..

or visit Our BioGreen Systems Online Store at: http://www.biogreensystems.com/gwfjeld/?page=/productsystems_smart.shtml

Going Green…With Green Integrity!

At BioGreen Systems, Inc. we take great pride in being able to provide a complete line of high quality “Green Products” for Personal Care, Home Care and Laundry Care. These are the kinds of products that we all use on a daily basis. What is most important to you in your search for “Green Products” to use in your home or office? Is it the quality, the value, the benefits to you and the environment, the availability, the company’s “green integrity” or all of the above? Whatever your answer, BioGreen can meet your needs.

BioGreen’s products are the very best that science and technology has to offer, they are not tested on animals and are truly non-toxic, earth sensitive, “green” products. They are not only safe, but also, cost effective and multi-purpose. (Example: BioGreen’s EcoPure, mixed 20 to 1 with water, costs less than 50 cents per quart!) Most importantly, the use of BioGreen’s products will help protect not only you and your family, but also the surrounding environment. The products are readily available, just a “click” away when ordered online and shipped directly to you. Since BioGreen’s products are so highly concentrated, (many are mixed with water before use, which saves you money) they require less packaging, which means they are more economical to ship, thereby having less of an impact on the environment and your wallet. By careful packing BioGreen is able to ship the products in the least amount of packaging possible. With our use of packing “peanuts” made from cornstarch, which dissolve in water and are completely biodegradable, demonstrates just one more way that BioGreen gives evidence of our “green integrity”.

Why We Do What We Do

Our family enjoys spending time outdoors. Camping is one of our favorite things to do when the opportunity presents itself. Working with BioGreen Systems Inc. provides us the ability to work from home and take care of our business, even while traveling. With our home based BioGreen business it gives us more free time to enjoy the hobby we love so much, traveling and camping. At the present time we are wintering in Arizona.

Our family has realized the importance of using "Green Products" in our home and while traveling in our RV. We realize this is only one step of many, but it's a step that everyone can take. Seeing and enjoying nature reinforces in us the need to take care of, and work to preserve our environment. With this in mind we have put together this website, Going Green 2Day.net, to introduce the BioGreen Systems Business Opportunity to everyone. Using safer, natural, non-toxic products only makes sense and is a logical starting point for a work from home business.

Bring Your Own Bag

Thanks to Matthew and Factory Direct Promos for their efforts in educating everyone about the alternatives to plastic throw away shopping bags.

BYOB stands for bring your own shopping bag! As we kick off the new year of 2010, it is crazy how much shopping we historically do here in America and world-wide and the trends are increasing. Whether it be frequent trips to the grocery store as we keep our kitchen's stocked for wonderful meals and tasty treats or those sometimes dreaded, yet skillful "6 bags on each arm" walks through the packed local mall, it all adds up to so much unnecessary waste. One of the most blatant examples of this waste is disposable shopping bags.

An estimated 100 billion plastic shopping bags are consumed each year in the USA, according to the Wall-Street Journal. Most plastic bags end up in landfills and the rest often end up in rivers, ponds, lakes, streams or in the sea, where animals can ingest or become entangled in them. Household waste, shopping bags included, increases by more than 25% on average in November and December. Considering how many shopping bags are consumed and wasted at this time of year, the time is now to spread the word about the positive benefits of eco-friendly reusable shopping bags to influence our families, friends and communities.

Adopting a BYOB strategy in our individual shopping habits is a simple way to do just that. If we can raise awareness at this time, the positive impact for the environment is incalculable for 2010 and well into the future. Several cities have already made gradual but significant progress in promoting the use of eco-friendly non woven reusable grocery bags in recent years. Motivating consumers with plastic and paper bag bans, discounts at the register for reusable bag usage and tax motivations are a few to speak of.

Right here in America, the San Jose City Council recently passed one of the nation’s strictest bans on plastic and paper shopping bags. This is a big victory for the Bay Area, which has one million plastic bags per year accumulating in and along the San Francisco Bay. San Jose becomes the latest bay area city to enact some type of ban on disposable shopping bags; others include San Francisco and Palo Alto. Tracy Seipel of the San Jose Mercury News reported that it was actually ONE man who really jump-started the ban, another great example of the power of one person. Here’s an excerpt:

While visiting his sister-in-law in Taipei, Kansen Chu, elected to San Jose city council in 2007, went grocery shopping and was surprised to get charged for plastic grocery bags. The next day, he brought his own cloth bags back to the store. "I guess the question," said Chu, "was, Why not San Jose?" He began a conversation with the city's environmental services staff, which later moved to council committee discussions.

Save the Bay’s 4th annual report on the most garbage-strewn sites in the region further demonstrates the need for bringing your own shopping bags. The 50-year-old environmental advocacy group focused on 10 specific bay-area sites where almost 15,000 plastic bags were retrieved in one day last year in their report. Here’s an excerpt of an article in the San Francisco Chronicle by Kelly Zito.

According to (Save the Bay's) research, Californians use about 19 billion plastic bags each year, 3.8 million in the Bay Area. The average use time for the bags - made using about 12 million barrels of oil each year in the United States - is about 12 minutes. In addition to the hundreds of years it can take for a plastic bag to decompose in a landfill, the bags also force downtime when fed into traditional recycling equipment. Typically, the bags get wound into conveyor belts or gears and must be cut out by hand.

Ten US cities have banned plastic bags so far, five within the past year. Even Mexico City enacted a ban on plastic shopping bags, which went into effect in August. The city of 20 million now faces the realities of effective enforcement, which is not easy when the Mexico City Chamber of Commerce estimates there are 35,000 vendors in Mexico City’s downtown area alone.

Bans on plastic bags aren't the only effective way to reduce harmful waste caused by disposable bags. PlasTaxes, which tax consumers at the register for using plastic bags when shopping, were first introduced by the Irish. John Roach of National Geographic reported last year on the worldwide momentum that’s been building since Ireland instituted a PlasTax in 2003. The Irish showed they could reduce plastic bag consumption by 90% or more. Momentum is growing across the world, particularly in America. From Washington, DC to Edmonds, WA to North Pole, AK, communities and governments are spurring an international trend to reduce the harmful environmental effects of disposable shopping bags. Even major retail stores like Target and CVS are taking action by enacting discounts at the register for customers who choose to BYOB or just carry-out their items without a bag.

For the naysayers, it’s convenient to ignore recent momentum in reducing disposable bag waste. But to some, the wide-spread adoption of eco-friendly reusable bags is inevitable. Look at the way smoking is becoming taboo in America. Indoor smoking bans have caught on like wild fire. In the same way, who is to say the use of disposable bags won’t become taboo at some point in the near future? The use of eco friendly reusable grocery bags is definitely gaining steam. Our individual choices to bring our reusable bags when shopping can go a lot farther than we think. That's what BYOB is all about, setting a proactive example for others to set a trend that will help our planet, its valuable finite resources and secure its animals' habitats.

Of course, plastic and paper bags should be recycled and it's important to remember most large retailers including Albertsons and Wal-Mart will recycle plastic bags for you. That being said, a BYOB shopping strategy can make your life so much easier because there is no longer a need to accumulate that cupboard full of plastic bags or figure out what and when to do something about it. Keeping a few reusable bags in your car or backpack is a good way to ensure you have them when needed. So give back to our planet by remembering to BYOB! Whether it be at a convenience store, the mall, or while grocery shopping, we can make a difference for the environment and help raise awareness one transaction at a time. Through the fight to eliminate disposable shopping bag waste, we are giving a gift to our Planet, the finest gift of all, sustainability and reusage.

The “Use It Once and Throw It Away” Mentality

Many a fortune has been made in this country on this “Use It Once and Throw It Away” way of thinking. Also many a landfill has been filled to overflowing with the same way of thinking. Because of this mentality, it’s my opinion that, We Americans have become some of the most wasteful people on the face of the Earth. If it’s not the right color, “Throw it Away”, if it’s last year’s model or style, “Throw it Away”, I just want a new one “Throw the Old One Away”.

To make a difference we need to “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle AND RETHINK” If we want to have part in saving our environment we need to do a hard “Rethink” of the way we do things. When shopping; do we purchase products intended to be reused, or to be discarded after one or two uses? Just one example of this in our “High Speed” hectic lifestyle is plastic “Silverware” or Styrofoam Plates and food containers. There’s an endless list of other examples and if we considered just a fraction of these we’d be here all week.

Another area we can consider is shopping. Do we use paper or plastic? There is a third and better choice; we should be using washable reusable cloth or recyclable vinyl bags. The devastating results caused by the use and improper disposal of the popular “T-Shirt” bag (the light plastic bag with “handles” most retailers use to put purchases in) are well documented. One site that really got my attention was "Bags on the Run" on their “Environment” page.

When shopping; do we give consideration to the amount of packaging a product has? Products that have more packaging than necessary waste resources in the manufacturing process and have more to discard after the purchase. Another thing to look at is the type of packaging, is it made of renewable recyclable materials or non-renewable non-recyclable materials. The first thing that comes to mind here for me is; are the packaging materials and/or product itself made from petroleum products? Is there a non-petroleum or natural alternative? Keeping in mind that less dependence on oil is a good thing. Think about purchasing economy size refills and refilling the dispensing containers. This will reduce the demand for plastic containers and the refills are usually a better bargain for your money, so in the process saving you $Green$.

Also when shopping do we make a lot of little trips to the store or do we make a list and make one well planned trip? The fuel savings alone could be 50% or more. Carpooling is another excellent way to make a difference. Do you know of elderly or infirm persons who would like a ride to the store? This would be helping them out and saving fuel at the same time.

Please give these thoughts some consideration. If you’re looking for “Non-Toxic, Environmentally Friendly, Truly Green Products” visit our website Going Green 2Day.

“Green Parenting”: Learning to make the “Green Choice”

As parents, we know how important it is to provide our children with the very best education possible and instill in them our family priorities and values. Providing a safe home environment for our children, so they have the opportunity to learn and reach their full potential, is also very important.

It’s necessary not only to provide our children with a safe learning environment in our homes, but also a safe living environment. Interesting thought, isn’t it? With the world’s focus on protecting the environment and “Going Green”, it’s only logical that we start in our own homes. By “Going Green” in our homes we not only make our homes safer for our families, we also have an impact in preserving the environment that surrounds us. One way we can do this is by carefully choosing the products we use on a daily basis and simply switch to using safe, non-toxic, “Green Products”. Recently, I became acquainted with a very informative website that I would like to bring to everyone’s attention, http://www.parentawarenesscenter.com/. This website is dedicated to providing parents with information on how they can help keep their children safe by “Going Green”.

Here’s an excerpt from Parent Awareness Center:

How to Go Green

Good parenting begins with educating yourself so that you can make the best decisions in raising and caring for your family. Parent Awareness Center is dedicated to providing free comprehensive information on "How and Why to Go Green", eco friendly choices, health, possible health hazardous that could effect the well being of your children, parenting articles, good parenting tips, and help for the working parent. As caring parents, we do everything possible to protect our families. We always buckle them securely into car seats, make sure they eat right, schedule regular visits to the pediatrician, and insist they wear helmets and protective gear at play. What most of us don't realize is that one of the biggest threats to our children is the arsenal of toxic chemicals that we have in our homes. Going Green just makes sense!

Here are some startling statistics:

• EPA surveys find that indoor air is 3-5 times more chemically polluted than outdoor air.
• After analyzing 2,983 chemicals used in personal care products, 884 were found to be toxic. (National Institute of Occupational Safety and Health)
• According to the National Safety Council, more children under the age of four die of accidental poisonings at home than are accidentally killed with guns at home.
• Asthma is the number one cause of absentees in the schools today.(Asthma Awareness Online)
• Of chemicals commonly found in homes, 150 have been linked to allergies, birth defects, cancer, and psychological abnormalities. (Consumer Product Safety Commission)

At Parent Awareness Center you will find a wealth of information about how you can “Go Green” in your home and in the process make your home safer for your family. The information they provide shows how important it is to be aware of the potential harm the products we now may be using can have on our family’s health and the environment. Parent Awareness has the same purpose and goals as our Going Green 2Day Blog and our Going Green 2Day Website have, which is, to help everyone we can to make the “Green Choice” to use “Green Products” in their homes. By doing this we can help educate ourselves, our children, our friends and others about the importance of “Going Green” and impress upon them how easy it is to do so.

Choose to Make a “Green” Choice!--Choose "Green Minded" Businesses

I have a few friends that I would call mentors, two of whom are Mr. Leroy Cox, CEO and Advisor of BioGreen Systems Inc., along with Mr. Ron Torel, recently appointed, President of BioGreen Systems Inc. Many times I’ve heard them say, (I’m paraphrasing here); “Set your goals and then surround yourself with those who are positive, supportive and have the same interests and goals as you have”. Teamwork is essential to achieving goals of any kind.

The choice whether or not to “Go Green” in our lives is a decision each one of us has personal control over. One area we may not have considered involves the companies that we do business with or purchase products from. Of course we cannot control others, but we can choose who to do or not do business with. We can help to make a difference far beyond our own personal corner of the world by choosing to do business with companies and corporations that are truly making an effort to make a “Green Difference”. In other words, create a group or “Team” of “Green Minded” businesses to work with. The way we, as consumers, spend our money sends a powerful message to Corporate America. With the economy in the situation it’s now in, that message can be louder and stronger than ever!

I was recently introduced to a printing company that is making a “Green Difference”. Bacchus Press is a Certified Green Printer in the San Francisco Bay Area and is a member of “Bay Area Green Business Program” and is also FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) Certified. If your company or project requires printing I encourage you to take a look at their website.

As we state on our website “2Day is the First Day of a Greener Future”. Each and every day we can learn more about “Going Green”, more ways to “Go Green” and more ways to implement our knowledge or put into practice what we have learned. In what we do, what we purchase and from whom we purchase it, makes a statement and an impact. Choose to make a “Green Choice”.

Our Passion for Traveling

One of our families’ passions is to go to one of the state parks or national forests in our area with our fifth-wheel camper, sit among the trees and just listen to the sounds of nature. With the cost of fuel as high as it is we tend to stay a lot closer to home these days, none the less it’s still a nice break to be able to get out and commune with nature. While doing this it really reinforces upon our family the responsibility we have to do everything in our power to protect our environment.

Staying closer to home does have its benefits, it saves fuel which is a good thing and we have less travel time which means we have more time to sit in the woods and enjoy nature.

When we travel we look for and utilize the recycling bins that are now in most recreational areas. If we don’t find a recycling drop off point in the park we happen to be in, we carry our recyclables with us to the nearest park or rest area that has these facilities.

It bothers us to see the garbage cans full of glass bottles, aluminum cans, plastic jugs and paper that could be easily dropped into the proper recycling bins. Many times this is in an area where the recycling bins are provided. Some people, depending on where they may live, might not be accustomed to the recycling programs that most urban areas have adopted. Unfortunately we have observed some who are just too lazy to put forth the effort.

Another area we would encourage everyone, who like us enjoy RVing, to consider is the types of products and chemicals we use in and around our RVs. Many household products contain chemicals which, even in very small quantities, can be detrimental to wildlife and/or foliage. If you’ve read some of our other posts I’m sure you’ve noticed that we’ve mentioned our family uses products from BioGreen Systems. BioGreen offers an extensive line of products that are Eco-Friendly and Non-Toxic. These products can be used safely around children and pets. We encourage everyone to use Eco-Friendly Non-Toxic products everywhere you may roam.

Camping in the woods also brings up the subject of bugs. Here in Minnesota that includes mosquitoes and ticks. One way to help combat these pesky insects is to use a product from BioGreen Systems called BioSol. Mixed with water and sprayed on the skin, or on the fur of your pet, makes a good insect repellent. Sprayed on the screens and around the door openings helps keep the insects away.

For more Eco-Friendly ideas please take the time to visit our "Green" Alternatives page at our website Going Green 2Day.