Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Live Greener with Iceberg Commerce's New Store: HelmetsAndArmor.com

With the world reaching a point of ecological devastation, its time to start seeking alternative methods of living. Two major areas where we could easily improve are in transportation and exercise. How many of us drive the 15 minutes to work instead of taking it as a half hour walk? Do you drive to the gym, circle the block 10 times looking for that perfect parking space, just so you can go inside a brightly lit building with music blaring and electric machines humming everywhere, just waiting to work you out? Sounds pretty familiar doesn’t it? Well, things are changing and it’s time that we changed the we think about consumption. Here’s to the upcoming surge of cycling sports, and bicycle commuting for health of body and planet. We are proud to launch www.helmetsandarmor.com, a one stop shop where you can pick up all the gear you need to take on a new lifestyle commitment, or continue to upkeep an existing one.

So greener choices are our responsibility to the world and its future inhabitants, but so is making sure you are well protected from anything the world can throw up in your way while you are trying to make it a better place to live. Helmetsandarmor.com has an incredibly well thought out inventory of helmets,  body armour,  apparel options to suit every need. Do you simply commute to work, ride to pick up groceries and enjoy a leisurely ride through the park or trails on the weekends? If so you are probably looking for a lightweight and well ventilated helmet…you most likely don’t require full face protection, but maybe you want to look into some gloves and knee/elbow pads, just to be safe… If you are more into road riding or perhaps a little bit of mountain biking, you are going to want to check out our stylish European style riding shorts and jerseys which are fully equipped with durable fabrics and extra padding, while you’re at it, top off the look with a slick skater style helmet… Into extreme downhill? Well, this is where the full face helmets and roost guards come into play…

Carrying a wide selection of gear by Bern Unlimited,  SixSixOne Protection,  Giro,  Bell Sports,  Giro,  EVS Sports and POC Sports, you’re sure to find everything you’re looking for to help you leave a lighter footprint behind. Boasting incredibly durable, rough and tumble products made from heavy duty fabrics, injection molded inserts and high density foams, replacement items are seldom needed, so you invest in a quality piece once and avoid consuming more than you need to.

At helmetsandarmor.com, we’re in tune with our audience and pride ourselves on offering quality products at competitive prices. If you have any suggestions on items you might like to see in our store, or some feedback on items you’ve already been in contact with, we encourage your comments.

Stay Green and Healthy, get outside and play.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Recycle Your Waste, Grow a Garden and a Compost Bin

If your kitchen is like most, you have a lot of food waste that goes down your garbage disposal. Give your garbage disposal a little break and start your own compost pile. Compost piles are easy to do and you’ll benefit by healthier eating. There are many ready made compost bins available for purchase or you can build your own with some wood and some skills.

The bin is very basically a box with a lid on it where the lower section of the front of the box is hinged so you can dig compost out from the bottom. If you know anyone with grass eating animals, and chickens, a good way to add to your compost pile in levels is chicken waste and waste from grass eating animals. When you rake your yard of leaves, put the leaves in the bin too. Don’t put big branches in there because they won’t decompose fast enough. Add all of your food waste as you make it. Make sure the pieces are small so they can break down faster and don’t put grease in your compost pile.

You will do your compost pile a world of good if you purchase some work castings to put into the pile once it has begun to grow. In order for the items in the bin to decompose it will need to stay wet, don’t let your compost pile dry out. When you’re ready for compost remove it from the bottom and spread it around your plants. This is a wonderfully green way to fertilize your garden and also keep garbage from heading into the land fills.

Monday, October 12, 2009

Why Is It Important To Keep Our Trash Out Of The Ocean?

The ocean is so vast that you would believe you could throw a piece of trash in it and it would disappear forever. As a matter of fact, too many think that, and that coupled with trash getting into our drainage system has caused the ‘Great Pacific Garbage Patch’ which is also known as the Trash Vortex and possibly many other names.

This area is located in the North Pacific Gyre which is a clockwise swirl of currents that houses little more than phytoplankton and our garbage. In fact there is so much trash that it is estimated that there is six times more trash than there is plankton.  It is estimated that over twenty billion pounds of plastic trash finds its way from our hands to the ocean each and every year. Plastics are horrible for the ocean because they are toxic, they don’t biodegrade.

They break into smaller pieces that may disperse over a wide area, clogging gills of fish and other filter type feeders. Aquatic birds tend to ingest them and turtles who love the taste of jellyfish end up ingesting plastic bags as well. The ocean only looks big, even the vastness of the ocean can’t swallow up our garbage without a trace. Recycling these items saves the animals of the ocean and keeps it healthy for generations to come.

Sunday, October 11, 2009

What Do I Do With My Old Prescription Glasses, After All, They’re Still Good

As we get older, our eyes change and as our eyes change, so do our prescriptions. This leaves us with perfectly good pairs of glasses that we no longer need. We may have literally paid hundreds of dollars for them, however they have become trash to us and they either just sit in a drawer or they may even go right into the trash.

Some places like Goodwill may take the glasses but they in all likelihood have more glasses than they know what to do with already and are not all that terribly interested in taking yours. So now what do you do? One thing that most people never consider is the different charity clubs such as Lions and Rotary.

Lions Club International has a program specifically for recycling old prescription glasses for children and adults alike. They work in partnership with readingglasses.com in order to distribute the glasses throughout the world. If you have a lot of old glasses, and the lenses are in good shape, these are the people you want to talk to. Even if the frames are not in good shape, they can take the good lenses and put them into useable frames and then redistribute them. This way your perfectly good glasses don’t end up sitting in a land fill for long after you and I both have left this world.