Category Archives: Environment

Adventure-Ready Resources for Opting Outside this Black Friday

Make No Mistake – Black Friday is Coming

Opt Outside with JtreeYou could stand in line like everyone else this Black Friday. Or, instead, you could choose to #OptOutside. Maybe soak your bones in a natural hot spring after bagging an epic hike and/or golden hour sunset. Or, yeah, you could spend the day standing in line. Decisions, decisions.

This Black Friday join us as we continue to support the #OptOutside movement started by REI.

Tools for Planning Your Black Friday Escape

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How-to Articles and Trail Finder
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Trail SearchREI Adventure Planner – learn or refresh an outdoor skill and find trails to hike near you.
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Adventure Search Map
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Adventure SearchTrack down a wide variety of outdoor adventures near you with Outdoor Project’s indispensable Adventure Search Map.
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Shoot for the Golden Hour
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Find the Golden HourSeek out your local Golden Hour – the first and last hour of sunlight during the day optimal for outdoor photography.
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Soak in a Natural Hot Springs
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Natural Hot SpringsReconnect with nature by spending the day blissfully soakingĀ in a natural hot springs in California, Idaho, Nevada or Oregon.
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Don’t forget to hashtag your Black Friday adventures: #OptOutsideCya on the trail!

Earth Sun Horizon

How and Where to Recycle Everything – Happy Earth Day!

It’s time to celebrate our amazing, diverse and truly unique home planet – Earth. Here’s how to give Mother Nature a high five by properly disposing of your old electronic junk (and everything else).

Recycling Protocol

It can be confusing when attempting to determine and decipher recycling protocol for a heaping pile of old computers, parts, periferials, digital cameras, batteries and cell phones that really should be disposed of.

That 9-pin dot matrix metal printer, while still functional and quite possibly capable of surviving being dropped out of an airplane, doesn’t make the best paper weight. Plus, that bag of old cell phones you have laying around isn’t helping your wierdo cred go down.

Earth911.com

The Earth911.com website and smartphone apps make it easy for folks to locate recycling facilities based on what they want to recycle. Simple and Green.

Download links and QR codes for Earth911’s smart phone recycling app are below.

One App to Recycle Them All:


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Earth Hour No Power 2012

Earth Hour – One Hour No Power 2012

Earth Hour – One Hour No Power 2012

8:30pm Local Time – Saturday, March 31st

It’s almost that time of the year again; a time at which a coordinated effort is made in support of the environment across the globe. A time during which everyone is encouraged to turn their power off, for one hour… Earth Hour – One Hour No Power.

In 2011, all seven continents joined the Earth Hour – One Hour No Power movement, even the Cartoon Network halted transmissions for one hour. In 2010, a record-breaking 126 countries helped raise awareness for climate change, including destinations like the Las Vegas Strip, Mount Rushmore, The Empire State Building and Niagara Falls. Learn more about the history of Earth Hour…

Scheduled Downtime

So, setup and turn-on that reminder alarm on your phone, calendar and project management app for 8:30pm, March 31st and Shut. Down. Everything!

If you have a WordPress powered website or blog, grab a nifty plugin right here. This will automatically take your site down for one hour and display a message and links in support of the Earth Hour movement.

Here’s an example of the plugin in action:

Earth Hour No Power 2012

Don’t have WordPress? No worries! There are plenty of banners, posters, logos and videos available for placement on your website, blog and/or social network right here.

Earth Hour Flickr Global Stream