When I was a blogger for About.com, on occasion, I would get a copy of a security product to review. I have not done that sort of thing in a long time so I am taking this opportunity to do a simple review on a product that a buddy of mine passed to me to take a look at. The product is eco mist solutions BBQ Grill Cleaner. Just so you know I have no financial interest in the company.

This stuff is made from non-chlorinated water, grass, corn, coconut and tree sap. I can tell you after I read the label I did not think it would work any better than water. Corn and grass to clean my grill, come on!

So I followed the instructions and scraped down the grill then sprayed this stuff all over the grill and let it sit. After a minute I gave it a good scrub. It worked pretty well. It does not dissolve big clumps of “BBQ build up from weeks gone by” but nicely takes the greasy film off the top of the grill to get you ready for your next BBQ.  It is safe for all food surfaces and is non-toxic. The best part is the stuff is made in Canada!

If you are interested take a look at http://www.ecomistsolutions.com. You can buy the product from Home Depot in Canada as well.

Direct Link to BBQ Cleaner

GreenNexxus is throwing down the gauntlet to see who can get the highest rated tip (viewed, used, talked about) by August 31, 2009.  If it’s you, you win an Apple iPod Touch. But that’s not all, just for submitting a green tip or sending a green tip to a friend, you could win an iTunes Gift Card.

• 1. Anyone who submits a green tip to GreenNexxus is entered into a draw for a $50 iTunes Gift Card.
  
• 2. Anyone who sends a green tip to a friend gets entered into a draw for a $25 iTunes Gift Card.
  
• 3. Draws for the gift cards are every two weeks with the first draw on July 9th, 2009.  Winners will be announced in the newsletter.
  
• 4. Whoever has the highest rated Green Tip on August 31, 2009 @ 12:01 AM Eastern Time will win the Apple iPod Touch.
  
• 5. Click here to go to Green Tips now.

Start sharing and rating Green Tips right now!

About Green Tips

Green Tips is a GreenNexxus feature that allows people to submit green advice, share them with friends, rate the ones you like, and even thumbs down the ones you don’t like. You can go beyond rating tips by clicking on the title of the green tip and then email, twitter, and even Facebook the green tips.

Share your tips with your friends to have them come to GreenNexxus and give your tip a thumbs up (or thumbs down).The best part is to rate the green tips, you need to be a GreenNexxus member, what a great way to invite friends to GreenNexxus.

You can only rate a tip once and any tips that are “nasty” get deleted.

Each time you share any Green Tips you get put into a draw EACH time.

The highest rated tip, the top contributors, and the top sharers will appear on the Tips page.
Be a Green Tip Star and come share your tips and tricks to help everyone go green.

Cya online,

Ryan and the GreenNexxus Team 

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One Million Acts of Green is a great way to get a large community of people thinking about what they can do to increase the sustainability of their daily lives. The 90+ “Acts of Green” is a great start but many of you have your own green knowledge and it is time to start sharing with others it to accelerate change.

Here at GreenNexxus we have launched our Green Tips web application. Green Tips allows you to view, share, rate and comment on a variety of tips in different categories such as vehicles, water and food. These tips come from GreenNexxus users just like you. Tips the community likes get rated and float to the top, the ones the community does not like get sent to the bottom. If you click on a tip title you like you can share it via Twitter, Facebook, Stumble Upon or Email.

You see, people I encounter many times are overwhelmed with pressure to go green or think it is too complex. I find if you give people simple tidbits of green common sense, it starts them on a journey of understanding green and in time the green lifestyle becomes second nature. As green becomes common sense to them, the addition of sustainable practices become the norm instead of the exception. Then planet positive lifestyle changes happen and spreads though their homes and comminutes.

So share your green tips at parties, community gatherings, with friends and family, but also with us.

The more you share, the more it helps us all work towards a sustainable future.

Submit your green tip today!

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Submit a Green Tip and get put into a draw for a iTunes Gift Card
Have the highest rated on August 31, 2009 and win an Apple iPod Touch

GreenNexxus now has the ability for you to log into GreenNexxus with your Facebook account!

If you are one of 125 million+ Facebook users and want to hang out on GreenNexxus, all you have to do is click the “Connect with Facebook” button and login. This will download your Facebook profile picture to GreenNexxus and you will be ready to explore the green content, meet green friends, and make your environmental saving pledge.

Soon Facebook will offer a feature so when you do exciting green things on GreenNexxus you will have the opportunity to “push” those activities to Facebook to let all your friends know what you are doing to go green.

What if you are already a GreenNexxus user? You simply login with your Facebook account and then edit your profile. In the edit profile section you will see a “merge” account option (It's on the bottom right of your profile page). Here you can enter your username and password of your GreenNexxus account and presto, the accounts are linked so you can login with either your Facebook account or your GreenNexxus account anytime and it will be the same account.

For more information on Facebook Connect on GreenNexxus, click here.

For more information about Facebook Connect, click here

Hello from the Tech Team at GreenNexxus. We have been hard at work to create new features that we trust you will all enjoy and help you and your friends to go green.

One new addition to GreenNexxus is videos. Our feature video is a 15 miniute highlight reel of the Comedy event help in Montreal in April 2008 which was put on to help support The Climate Project Canada.

• Comedians for Climate Change
• ECO Music Videos
• Enviro Oriented Videos

BBQ season is here for us in the colder part of the world. BBQ usually means paper plates and LOTS of plastic cups. When we were out shopping my wife discovered a way to be a little greener when BBQing. She found "plastic" cups are made of an all nature resin derived from corn product and are 100% bio-degradable and you can even compost  the cups or put them in a green bin. The paper plates are made of 100% recycled materials and we will put them back in the recycle bin once we use them.

The plates and cups are made by a company called bio*life and we bought them at Shoppers Drug Mart in Canada.

Every little bit helps.

Hello everyone and welcome to GreenNexxus blogging. In the coming days the great people that have become bloggers will start posting green content. This content will range from green food, lifestyle issues and climate change. I can't wait to start reading what these people have to say.

 If you are interested in becoming a GreenNexxus blogger please contant me by sending me email though my public profile.