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Green Solutions for Financial Crisis Time Challenge

Posted on October 8, 2009 by DualFlushKit

Any such crisis in its essence, whatever the complicated and confusing financial explanations may be, is overspending. When you overspend money, resources or other things, you loose control of them and of your life, and end up in crisis. So, I believe green lifestyle can provide many excellent and efficient solutions both for avoiding crisis and for surviving during crisis times. Let us take a look at one of them.

If you want to muster crisis, you have to take control over things and stop wasting. In many cases this can be a very difficult task to manage, because many of our wastes are deeply involved with our emotions, habits or wants. We get used to doing things in a special way and it is very challenging for most of us to change our daily habits.

However, if you turn on your green thinking, you may be able to avoid both extra wastes and having to change your habits. Just aim yourself at finding perfect green solutions for cutting down your wastes. One such solution is offered in a form of dual flush toilets. Installing a dual flush can allow you to start saving both water and money daily, but without you having to change your habits or reducting your home comfort.

What you will need to do is to spend a moderate money on purchasing the dual flush and about an hour on installing it. That’s it! From now on you can start saving water and money without giving it a second thought and breaking your life habits. This way you not only can get wasting lifestyle habits under your control, but also avoid adding extra strain through having to change your lifestyle.

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The Purr of a Be Green Tactic of Action

Posted on October 7, 2009 by DualFlushKit

Today, the world is after you to conserve its resources. Be Green… purrs… in your ear every moment, the earth does not provide for you alone, but for all generations that follow. So where do you start??
How about your toilet? Did you know that your toilet alone accounts for more than 30% of your household water usage? But what can you do about it? You cannot flush a toilet up to fifty percent, right? Wrong. Keeping in view, the environmental effects of water wastage, a new flushing system called the Dual Flush Toilets has made an entry into the house hold appliance market. The Dual Flush Toilet works on a simple formula, to use a lesser amount of water when lesser waste is to be disposed. That is for all your liquid wastes, you have a special lever that releases only four liters of water while the solid wastes are entitled to a full flush by another lever. Although the real catch is, you do not have to replace your entire toilet to make use of this system. Dual Flushes usually come with a retrofit pack that can be manually installed in an existing toilet. Whether you want to call in your plumber to do the job for you or would prefer to install it yourself depends on you. Although most manuals state that Dual Flush Toilet kits can be easily installed by anyone handy with the tools.
You might also note that the Dual Flush Toilet kits come with a new refill tube sometimes called the Aquastric sometimes which allows the tank to fill independent of the bowl. These ensure that the precious water isn’t being wasted while traditional refill tubes drain water by the bowl while refilling the tank since the tank takes more time to refill. Although it is not necessary that you replace your existing fill valve because the Dual Fill Toilet is compatible with may kinds of toilets available in the market today. So you don’t need to worry about whether or not your toilet would function properly with this new mechanism. It is a fact that these toilets have reduced the water usage from the toilets up to 30 percent. This is why the dual flush is such a big step you can take towards environmental protection while allowing only a small hole in your pocket
So take this little step today, and also educate your neighbors and friends about this simple technology that is a major step towards a greener society.

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Living Green Can Be Profitable

Posted on October 6, 2009 by DualFlushKit

Here is the thought I want to try to bring to your attention in this article: thinking and living green can be very profitable. Sometimes when people come to think of “green lifestyle”, the first thing that comes to their minds is limitation. They feel, they need to limit or deprive themselves in many things to live green. They think they have to become very sparing in using things and resources to live green. This way “thinking green” concept may be attached to some negative emotions or a sense of discomfort.

But, it is not so. The keyword here is Thinking. When you start thinking and living green, it seems like you wake up.  You begin to see that the only reason you actually waste water or electricity or overuse other things is the matter of habit. For example, you may be overspending much water and your money using regular toilet set. When you come to think of it, you may notice that dual flush toilets are much more economically profitable. But the only reason you did not use them was due to your habit of using the regular toilet sets.

So, basically when you start THINKING green, you begin to notice inefficiency of many commonly use things, which can be easily replaced by equal in comfort, but more environmentally friendly and profitable for you analogues.

Dual flush was only one of many things I can give you an example of. So, turn on your green thinking and make your living more profitable.

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Make Green living a neighborhood effort

Posted on October 5, 2009 by DualFlushKit

Can a man change his entire style of being for something far bigger than himself? Though yes is the answer on your tongue tips I might have to disagree with you. Despite numerous efforts by organizations worldwide to spread awareness about the environment, a very small percentile of even the well-informed masses have taken to what we call today, the Green Lifestyle. The well designed campaigns, electronic or otherwise, worldwide have definitely planted a seed in everybody’s head, but it seems like a long time before green lifestyle could be accepted as a way of life. So what makes it so hard to accept it? The fact that you cannot litter and minimize your junk food needs, the fact that you have to forgo your comfortable modes of transport and choose a bicycle or worse even share your car in a pool to reduce the energy waste, the fact that you have to think twice before you use an energy source for your personal needs, the fact that you don’t need a green lifestyle when zillions around you are the same as you.
What the peers need to understand is that a person cannot change the ways of his life developed over the years by the sleight of a hand. Rather than a distant voice telling them to protect the environment over the radio or television it needs to be the neighbor or the friend who should bring the green lifestyle into being. A close to home effect to make the change.
Take for example what Martha, an ardent Green Girl, brought into all her friend’s lives the reality of green living. She dedicated the most important day for the cause, she had a green wedding! She wore a chic low cut dress with huge puffy sleeves and a trim skirt made of organic silk. Her place cards, her menus and invitations are all made of recycled paper, she rented beautiful chinaware instead of disposable plates and bowls and her centerpieces were made of beautiful live flowery shrubs rather than cut flowers! By the end of the evening half her guests were already listing the changes they were about to bring into their lives.
Take Zaheena, the owner of a daycare facility. She teaches the toddlers in her facility, a greener way of life, by simply making them switch off the lights as they exit (making a big deal out of it!) or showing them how to preserve water by using just a thin stream of water that they needed. But the real intention behind this is much bigger than teaching the toddlers who would eventually grow out of whatever they learnt. The parents, who watched their kids at home lovingly saving power or watering the plants, bringing home a simple tomato shrub and caring for it, became aware of the necessity of a greener lifestyle for the generations to come. Soon the daycare facility turned into a forum for the green parents!
Make green living a neighborhood effort, for this is where change begins. Give some thought as to how your can make the big change.  Maybe you could install Dual Flush Toilets on the whole block, or an all lights off at 8pm one night a week…. Good luck and keep the green thoughts going.

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Grandfather advice: “It’s a way to make money without working”

Posted on September 21, 2009 by DualFlushKit

 I live in Winnipeg, a city in Canada of 650,000 people. 

 

As a boy of 14, my Grandfather introduced me to investing by taking me to what was then called the “boardroom” of an investment house.   It had a large electronic board and the bid, ask and trades of stock whipped across the board.  My grandfather explained the basics of this, how to look up a stock on a second system if it didn’t come up very often, and then went on to say these crucial words “It’s a way to make money without working” My Youthful attention was now riveted.  I learned also that you can lose money, with no effort. Academics call people who don’t like to lose money “risk averse”, regular folk call them “smart”  How’s the old 401K or RRSP doing?  recovering but still, not so good?  Read on.  This is about a low cost investment that does pay back with certainty…as long as you’re paying a water bill.

 

That small experience of seeing a “boardroom” at a brokerage led me to get a job so I could start to invest. I remember clearly my first buy, 1000 shares of Dickstone Copper for 22 cents each, which was $220.00 plus $10.00 for brokerage.  I kept learning all I could about the various markets and eventually decided to get a Degree in Finance to round it all out.  I did make money on Dickstone Copper by the way, I sold it at 33 cents a share.

 

Fast forward 37 years. I still like to think in terms of investment occasionally.  Investment takes money and it leads to you having more of it.  It doesn’t require you to have huge piles of money though.  Got 54.00 bucks? Then read on.  

 

For January, February and March my water bill was $213.00 for a combination of water and sewerage.  So I thought about how other people saved money on their water.  More efficient shower-heads, toilets, and washing machines seemed the common answers.  I opted to buy a low-flow shower-head and make my toilet more efficient.    The shower-head was about $20.00.  And the store wanted 200.00+ for a toilet!  I passed on buying the toilet.   My dad had something that converted his toilet to a dual-flush in 1987, so where had it gone?  I searched the internet and found it of course.

 

I met a couple of guys who owned SelectAFlush, David and John.  I bought a couple of units, and started to sell them as soon as I had installed my own.  Tonight as I thought, “How can I help more people to save money with SelectAFlush?” It occurred to me to calculate the ROI, (return on investment) on having one.  The answer was a walloping 68% to 174% depending on your family size.

 

Now, if your bank was offering you 25% interest, you’d probably scrape every cent you could get together and deposit it with them.  Bad news, they’re paying about zero right now.  I am offering you a way to make up to 174%.

 

Here is what I suggest.  Take 54.00 out of savings that is making you nothing, and buy a SelectAFlush.  If you are an average citizen in my city it will pay you back in less than a year.  After that its money you don’t pay someone else, and you can keep it to invest in something else, maybe something else that saves you money. 

 

My SelectAFlush converted my 3.5 gallon or 13 liter toilet into a dual-flush one, and it’s saved me about $35.00 in 3 months.  Soon the I will have my 54.00 back and savings will be all mine. 

 

To calculate your ROI (Return on Investment) do the following:

 

1)         add up your water bills for 1 complete year (e.g. $660.00)

2)         Multiply them by 30% and that is what your toilet is costing you (e.g. $660.00 x .3 = $198.00)  Gulp.

3)         Multiply the 30% of your water bills in the above line by 0.4,   that’s how much a SelectAFlush will reduce your bill by every year.  (E.g. 198.00 x 0.4 = $79.20)

4)         Write down the amount you’re going to save.  (e.g. $79.20)

5)         Punch the number 54 into your calculator, divide it by the number you wrote down, that’s how many years it will take to get all your money back.  E.g. (54 / 79.2 = 0.618 years (that’s less than one year))

6)         To find your yearly return on investment, divide your annual savings by 54.  (e.g. (79.2 / 54) X 100% = 146%)  You can’t get that at a bank or many other places and water is not going to get cheaper, so send me an order!

7)         Email me at Dualflushcanada@mts.net and I’ll send you a PayPal invoice and then once its paid you’ll get a SelectAFlush.

 

 

For Winnipeggers the answer will come to between 58% and 174% ROI depending on how big your family is.    

 

So here is the question:  Now that you know buying a SelectAFlush can make you a serious percentage return, what’s holding you back? 

 

Patrick Stewart is an entrepreneur based in Winnipeg Canada and he is a factory representative.  SelectAFlush is his latest venture.

 

Stewart Agencies
c1-600 Clifton St.
Winnipeg, Manitoba
R3G 2X6

Ph 204-775-9298
fax 204-775-9314
email stewart.agencies@mts.net

 

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Dual Flush Toilets Funds Dalton Avenue, Hybrid after School Program

Posted on September 15, 2009 by DualFlushKit

Dalton Avenue is a hybrid after school program that combines academics and arts education to students in low-income neighborhoods.  They offer Digital Arts & Design, Entertainment Business, Video Production, Dance, Fine Arts, TV / Film Production, and Marketing. This program is keeping the kids off the streets building strong life skills and school fun.  They need your support, let’s keep the children off the street.  If you choose to Save water and the Environment by  buying a SelectAFlush dual flush toilet conversion kit  please use the coupon “Dalton” on our site.  By using the “Dalton” coupon you will receive 5% off your purchase and help the Dalton Avenue after school program with an Additional 5% of your purchase. Lets keep these family values alive and help these kids.

For more information on how we can fund your cause go to dual flush toilet .We are helping schools, After school programs and even student who need book money or tuition.

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Painlessly Green, Go Green the easy way

Posted on September 1, 2009 by DualFlushKit

easy-street-installA great way to be green and save water with a painless effort is to change out your old toilets to a dual flush.  Most old toilets can be converted with a dual flush conversion kit that will save water on the first flush.  You do not have to change your life to be green. Yes, you can go into every drop of water like watering your plants with your dish cleaning water but is that really something you will do? You don’t have to think about flushing the toilet you just flush when you have to and you save, no change in habit. Now you are making a green move that you know you can honor.

One of the best dual flush toilet units is a SelectAFlush.  The unit sells for under $30.00 and can be installed in less than an hour.  The site can be found at http://www.dualflushkit.com/ give it a shot.  I believe most toilets leak in just a few month of use so instead of repairing with that same old flapper put the money toward real savings. With a little care as a society we can save billions of gallons now. 

 

 

 

 

 

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Earn Money for your School and GO GREEN!

Posted on August 24, 2009 by DualFlushKit

school-funds1Need a cool way to raise money for your school, scout troop, our town sports team?  Having a hard time selling those baked goods?  Tired of washing cars?  Sick of going door to door with the same old candy bars?
 
Wouldn’t it be great to raise money for your school or organization, save money for your friends and do something awesome for the environment at the same time?
NOW YOU CAN!!!
 
SelectAFlush has the solution!   
 
For every Dual Flush Toilet Kit purchased on our site with a registered  code  for your organization used in the coupon section, SelectAFlush will donate 5% of the sale directly to your cause and give 5% off to the purchaser.  A dual flush converter will save an average family a swimming pool of water each year and that will save money on their utility bill. Imagine a drive that earns money for your organization, saves money for the families and saves the Earth.
 
Save water and  money, now that is GREEN.
 
SelectAFlush is offering a 5+5 donation  for every participating program. Now THAT deserves a 10!!
 
To register simply send an e-mail to schoolprogram@dualflushkit.com with the following information:
 
School name:
School address:
School phone number:
School e-mail:
Applicants e-mail
 
 
Note: Please allow 24 hours for the code to be entered.

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Stop buying Bottled Water. It is just Waste, Waste and more Waste

Posted on August 18, 2009 by DualFlushKit

beach-wasteWaste: More than 40% of the bottled water on the market is just filtered tap water that you get to pay extra money for.  Is it better for you, of course not! Now if you lived in a 3rd world county, OK.  But for us that don’t it is just not a good value. Gasoline is cheaper per gallon.  A gallon of gas costs around $3. If we assume a one-liter bottle of water from the store costs about $1.50, a gallon of the same bottled water should cost about $6.
 
Waste: Have you ever walked the beach in the early morning before the tractors clean it up for the tourist? It is a mess with plastic bottles and manmade junk.  We are currently only recycling 15% of the water bottles that are used. The rest of the 86% are going to the land fill, floating on to the beaches and found just about every place you look.
If you add the other green factors like we use 47 Million gallons of oil per year to product these bottles and have nothing but 1.5 million tons of plastic waste from it per year then, why are we buying the plastic water bottles again? It is killing mother earth and not making us healthier in return.
Waste:  Is your health is at risk? Plastic water bottles are made from PET (polyethylene terephthalate) as well as DEHA (di-ethylhexl adipate) which is used to produce PET. These are deemed safe as long as the plastic does not get too hot. Remember that these bottles are stored in warehouses, transported on a hot truck and then most likely stored in a hot garage until you use them. How hot is too hot? Well no straight answer on that, but do you really know how hot the bottle got before you purchased it? We are dealing with a possible risk of cancer and I know I do not want to take that risk over something that costs more and gives nothing in return over standard tap water. I leave you with this thought, pre World War II toothpaste tubes were made of lead and we thought nothing of it. Looking back it seems obvious to us now is this plastic topic going to be the same?
 
I hope this has shed some light on bottled water and you can make an educated decision. 
 
Green Tip- Remember to save water today; a great way to start to save water is with a Dual Flush toilet Conversion kit for your standard toilet.

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How many Plastic Bottles do you use a year?

Posted on August 12, 2009 by DualFlushKit

A typical family consumes 182 gallons of soda, 104 gallons of milk, 29 gallons of
juice, and 26 gallons of bottled water a year. That’s a lot of containers. This counter from CRI shows how many beverage cans and bottles have been sent to the landfill, littered and or incinerated this year.


 

Lets go green and make the difference today. Save water and recycle all you can.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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