Toyota 100 Cars for Good - Kansas Council on Economic Education

Your clicks matter.  The next 100 days your clicks – or votes – can decide which 100 nonprofits take home a new ride from Toyota.  All you have to do is go to www.100carsforgood.com where five  finalist nonprofit organizations will be profiled each day.  Registered Facebook users are be able to vote once daily for the nonprofit they think can do the most good with a new set of wheels.

The organization with the most votes at the end of the day will win a new vehicle.  The four runners-up will each receive a $1,000 cash grant from Toyota.  Voting is open now through Tuesday, August 21 from 9:00 am to 11:00 pm CST. To see a full list of finalists go to www.100carsforgood.com.

There's a Wichita non-profit in the running! Kansas Council on Economic Education is hoping to win a Toyota Highlander to help them in their mission to bring economic and financial literacy to the schoolchildren of Kansas.





If you have the time, I highly encourage you to stop by and vote every day for the organization of your choice, they are all worthy of your time and a new set of wheels.

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I'd love to say I was a green and crunchy earth mama but that would be a pretty massive exaggeration. I do try, whenever possible, to recycle and compost and buy local. I think that being mindful of your actions and how they impact the world around us is important but I also know how nice convenience is to busy families. That's why this week's Live a Little post is about starting small.

I love my Keurig coffeemaker but I hate the wastefulness of throwing away a non-recyclable plastic filter pack filled with coffee grounds. I've actually dissected them before to compost the coffee, at least, and assuage my latent inner hippie. It is a major pain in the butt. I've tried some after-market filter doohickeys but they've been a massive hassle to clean and reuse since they have an inner filter and outer cup- you need to take them apart and clean all the pieces. Especially since I like iced coffee in warm weather, which requires a couple of shots of strong brewed coffee. Washing the filter and drying it and refilling it usually ends up with more coffee grounds going down the garbage disposal than into the compost pail.

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What baby steps are you taking towards a greener lifestyle?

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In accordance to the FTC Guidelines and the WOMMA Code of Ethics, I am disclosing that I received a complimentary sample Ekobrew filter to facilitate this review. No compensation has been received and, as usual, all opinions are my own.