This week’s Website Wednesday is Earth 911 at earth911.com The site allows you to search for an item you want to recycle and your location and it will show you places in your area that will take that item for recycling.  So before you throw something out – check out Earth 911 to see if you can recycle it.

There are also resources on there to learn more about what you can recycle. For example check out http://earth911.com/paper/ to watch videos on how paper is recycled, how you can get started recycling paper, what recycled paper is used for, and lots more.  Makes you think twice about a piece of paper and how useful it is when you are done with it!

So help save the Earth by calling on Earth 911!

Hmm – maybe I should do a website a month – I’ll try to get back to every Wednesday – but sometimes time just slips away from me.  I should also post some other content – but my greatest thoughts seem to come when I’m not a near a computer and when I’m near a computer I don’t feel like posting!

This week’s website is The Hunger Site This website is a very simple site to visit.  You simply visit it, click where it says “Click Here to Give – It’s Free”, and they’ll donate money to help feed the hungry.  They raise their money in two ways, one is by selling ads that appear after you click and the other is through items they sell in their store.  You can click once each day.  Although your small little click might not be much – over the course of a year and with everyone’s clicks – it can really make a difference.  For example in 2008 over 4,000 tons of food were able to be purchased with the funds raised.  So add it to your bookmarks and visit every day to help out.

Also, while you are there, check out the sister sites of The Hunger Site which all operate the same way for different causes.  The other sites are The Breast Cancer Site (funding mamograms), The Child Health Site, The Literacy Site (providing books), The Rain Forest Site, and The Animal Resuce Site.

So instead of pointless clicking on your computer – your clicking can now make a difference!

This week’s Website Wednesday site is Print What You Like.  This site allows you to take any website and get rid of items on it you don’t want to print.  It works quite simply.  You go to the Print What You Like page and put the URL of the page you want to print into the box and click “Start!”.  This then brings up your web page on the screen with some controls on the left.  The general idea is you click on items you don’t want to print and then click “Remove”.  The page updates to show what the page now looks like.  There are other options to help refine what you have selected, or you can just select the items you want printed and “Isolate” them.  Once you have the page how you want it you can print it or save it to HTML or a PDF file.  One word of caution – one time I used this and the text on the page didn’t wrap properly and it got cut off when it printed out – so just double check your output to make sure it has what you expect on it.