The GreenDimes diet is the easiest way I've seen to lose weight.  Beats missing out on carbs...or protein, or whatever that beach diet calls for.  This before pic was borrowed from a blogger fan who kept a year's stack of catalogs before GreenDimes.   Coming in at a cool 55 pounds, his stack had 90% tree fat and a wasted water index of some big number. (you try being clever on New Years Day)

The only thing you'll miss is the carbon.   

Happy New Years.  -Sanjiv

Trees for the Future would like to thank you fellow GreenDimers for all your tree-planting efforts, and specifically for helping a village (I don't know if I agree with "adopting a village.")

Two thoughts:

(1)    Sometimes the notion of tree-planting is vague.   Here, we see something specific that you have done.  Basically, in 1991, a volcano in Botolan, Phillipines covered crops and homes in ash and left a toxic landscape.   By helping the community plant trees, organic material has returned to soil, yielding more crops and adding more timber.  All told, an additional 186,000 trees will be planted in the area.

(2)    The Phillipinos have been dealing with this problem since 1991?!

Thanks GreenDimers,

-Sanjiv                                                         

Senior Citizen Night in Botolan, who's with me?

If you are not reading this, it's probably because you are standing in line at the post office to mail your holiday packages. Trust me, I know. I was just there (although only to get my bills in the mail).

The USPS has estimated that 20 *billion* cards and gifts will be sent this holiday season... and man oh man, that's a lot of mail. Albeit the kind of mail you do want, the kind you anticipate all year, the kind that sends you running to your mailbox in excitement. You mean you don't run to your mailbox in excitement?

But if today passed you by and now you have missed the mailing deadlines promised for Christmas delivery, never fear... GreenDimes is here. You can always send someone our service online, even print out a gift certificate if you are feeling crafty. I told the woman standing in front of me about us, just after the mail clerk had to break the news that her gift would not, in fact, be delivered by Christmas. She was psyched. And you should be too!

Click here to get your last-minute holiday gifts taken care of. No lines. No nasty mail clerks.

Your mailing maven,

Kendra

First of all, it took me forever to even find one.  Eco-man?  Dr. Environment.  Green Lantern doesn't count.  There weren't even any bad guys who wanted who wanted to pollute the planet (Lieutenant CO2)?  The best we could do were mascots, Woodsy, Smokey the Bear was kinda cool.  But I remember,there was some green superhero.  Who was it?  When finally I stumbled upon the answer...

Captain Planet and the Planeteers?!  I'm not kidding.  Sounds like a name I'd invent for a green parody band.  It's him and some kid planeteers, turning off light switches, I don't know. 

He's not even green.  And if you think about that pic for a second, his face is blue, which means his skin is blue, which means he's wearing a sleeve-less midriff, gloves, and go-go boots, and not much else.

We can do better   This is a call out.  First one to draw a decent superhero gets a FreeMe! (our junk mail service), a tee shirt, a tote, whatever, I'll pay for it myself.  The rest get a tee or tote.  Upload it into the comment section.

Here an idea, draw GreenDimes v a Junk Mailer locked in battle.

Your Junk Mail Destroyer,

-Sanjiv