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The Benefits of Backyard Farming

Growing vegetables, fruits and herbs in your backyard is a challenging and sometimes frustrating process when the weather doesn’t cooperate. However, your hard effort can be worthwhile for several reasons so you might want to consider starting...

Multiple Uses for Dental Floss

Do you floss your teeth every day? Well, if you don’t you should probably start, but dental floss can do more than just remove food and plaque build up from your mouth. Below are some easy ways to use floss for common household situations and...

DIY Inexpensive and Eco-friendly Seedling Pots...

If the weather outside is still too cold for gardening, seedling can be started indoors. Just about any container (milk jug, liter soda bottle, etc.) can be cut open, punctured with a few holes at the bottom and turned into a...

6 Ways to Reuse Baby Wipe Containers

Raising a baby requires so many essential products, and portable baby wipes are probably one of the most important ones. If you’re going through several tubs of baby wipes a month, why throw away the plastic container when you can find more...

Relieve Tax Season Stress with Eco-friendly...

Tax season is rough on everyone, and if you’re not as organized as you should be, making the April 15 deadline might seem close to impossible. When you’re preparing your 2009 taxes , keep these eco-friendly relaxation tips in mind. Not only...

Go Eco-friendly with Your 2010 Taxes

The dreaded season has caught up with us again—tax season (dun, dun, dun)! Although you might not always look forward to April 15 of every year, it’s an important deadline to abide by if you don’t want to pay fines. By now you might already...

Use Natural Remedies to Ward Off Insects

Living near the woods can be a blessing and a curse if you don’t care for insects, but you can even get infestations when you live in the city. Bugs are essential to the ecosystem—spiders do their part and eat mosquitoes and other...

Alternatives to Baby Powder

Did your parents use baby powder on your when you were young? The use of this product for eliminating moisture from the skin, preventing friction and degreasing hair is common, but just because it’s effective doesn’t make it safe. As with any...

Valentine Gifts Kids Can Make From Scrap and Junk

My kids get really excited about Valentine’s Day. In fact, my youngest daughter is so ready to celebrate it she is drawing hearts everywhere and already talking about her Valentines party. If your kids are like mine show them how...

Can a Composting Toilet Make a Difference?

Have you been considering switching over from a traditional toilet to a composting toilet? Although it will be a transition you will have to get used to, a composting toilet has several benefits for the environment, and you will also reap some...

How to Take Care of E-waste

What types of obsolete technology do you have around your home or office? Maybe a box television set, a VCR player, a broken desktop computer, etc. With new technology coming into the picture so often, it can become too expensive or inconvenient...

Eco-friendly Dining Out on Valentine’s Day

This year instead of taking your sweetie out to just any restaurant consider taking him/ her to a local restaurant that cares about the environment as much as it does about its customers. Finding the perfect heart-healthy,...

Embrace Your Independence in an Eco-friendly Way

Living on your own can be a freeing experience, but it also comes with more bills and headaches. Instead of splitting the bill with a roommate or living rent free with your parents, everything is on you now. Instead of rushing to make your new...

Earthquakes: Protecing Yourself Against Mother...

The recent earthquake disaster in Haiti makes you think about what you would do during one. Within 45 seconds, Haiti was obliterated…could you find a safe place in your home to go to within this short time period? In a situation like this, you...

Pass Down Your Green Morals

Teaching your children how to live a sustainable life helps them learn how to be more independent and appreciative of the basics. Too many role models for children over indulge and portray a life free of consequences, which doesn’t help them...

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21 Ways to Recycle Empty Prescription Bottles

Recent coughs and ear infections in my household have left me with a pile of empty unrecycable RX bottles sitting on my kitchen counter waiting for me to figure out what to do with them. I hate to throw them away, but Wednesday’s curbside...

12 Ways to Have a Green Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is around the corner for some of us. If you celebrate it you know how non-environmentally friendly it can be. If your are looking for ways to green it up this year, here are some quick green tips to make your Thanksgiving as...

Recycle Your Shoes

What exactly to do with that old pair of shoes? If you're like most people, you probably have a couple of pairs maybe more of old sneakers kicking around the house. And if you're like most people, you probably can't figure out quite what to do...

22 Things To Do On Earth Day

Earth Day is just around the corner. In case you don’t know the date, it is April 22nd, 2008. This year find new ways to celebrate Earth Day, but remember living green is better practiced daily instead of just once a year. Look below for some...

Environmentally Friendly Air Fresheners Tips

Sometimes your house smells and you need a quick cover up. Most commercial air fresheners are bad for your health as well as for the environment. If guest are coming over in a little while and you still haven’t found the source of the smell...

Quick Green Tips - Part Three - Car Pollution

Did you know,one bus load of passengers takes 40 cars off the road during rush hour and saves 70,000 liters of fuel? It also take up 1/3 of road space and avoids over 175 tones of emissions a year. Vehicles are responsible for more than 25% of...

The Many Uses of Nylon

Nylons are used every day by millions of women around the world. When they become ripped or old, they are often thrown out because they cannot be worn anymore. However, this is a waste as with anything that is not reused. So, why not follow some...

Use Cloth Diapers

Do your baby and the environment a favour and switch to cloth diapers. Disposable plastic diapers pose an obvious environmental concern but are also worse for your baby than their reusable counterparts. As is so often the case, the choice...

Clothes With A Conscience

There’s nothing worse than feeling wasteful these days. Every excess is scrutinized, from driving gas-guzzling vehicles down to the corner store to using endless plastic bags. So it is timely to find some people turning their creativity to...

Host a Clothing Swap Party

Every day you get up and get dressed, but recycling through your same old clothing can become boring and predictable. While your first instinct might be to shop for new clothes, you should consider hosting a clothing swap party instead. Not...

Never-Iron Clothes

I just can’t get enthusiastic about ironing clothes - and don’t even mention linens. But many people carefully smooth out their garments before every use, presenting a crisp and polished appearance. After all, the rumpled look doesn’t cut...

Recycle your Clothes

Take a bite out of consumer excess by recycling your clothes. The clothing in your wardrobe like the food in your fridge is derived mostly from natural materials, like wool, cotton, leather, and so on, which needs to be generated by plants or...

Have You Winterized Your Car Yet?

Trying to determine how bad the winter will be is close to impossible and counting the stripes on a wooly bear caterpillar is as helpful as watching your local weather forecast. Fortunately, Northeast Ohio hasn’t been bombarded by snow yet, but...

Drive Less

Okay, this is an obvious one. It's getting a lot of attention these days. We've heard the statistics, with a variety of figures and percentages, but the point remains the same: the number of cars worldwide will roughly double by 2030. Anyone...

Check out Community Car Share

"If you live in a city, you don't need to own a car." They are bold words, especially coming from William Clay Ford Jr CEO of Ford Motor Company and great-grandson of the legendary Henry as quoted in an interview with the British newspaper...

2008 – The Year of the Green Car…

It is that time of year - the car commercials on TV have left the 2007 models in the dust and are speeding head-on into the 2008 editions. If you’re thinking about buying a car in 2008, here are the top five greenest vehicles out there based on...

A Different Kind Of Smart Car

Sometimes the pressure to act conscientiously can be a little wearing for consumers. After all, our modern lifestyle seems fraught with pitfalls - from transportation to household electronics, food and water to the containers that hold them....

Are Car Washes Green?

Well, we are getting to that time of year again and many people are beginning to look at the slushy roads and at their dirty cars, making the decision to begin washing them. For environmentalists, this creates a dilemma. While they want clean...

Don't Drive Through

On my way to work yesterday morning, I was perplexed to see a SmartCar join the ever present ranks of other vehicles idling in line at the Tim Horton’s drive-thru window near my work. The drive-thru never fails to irritate me—the choice of...

Questions about Going Green

I HOPE YOU CAN HELP ME , I AM BEGINNER BEEKEEPER, WE TOOK HONEY OUT OF HIVE AND MY WIFE PUT A BIT OF WATER IN EACH JAR AND IT CREATED A FUNGUS ON TOP AND ALSO TO WATERY , CAN WE TAKE THE FUNGUS OFF AND GIVE THE HONEY BACK TO THE BEES? THE WATER SHE PUT IN IS TAP WATER. CAN SOMEONE GIVE ME THE PROPER INFO KIPPER

Comments say the rainforest in Brazil dramitically affects global warming. Is there any initiative to massively compensate Brazil for 100% conservation of the rainforest?

i want the technology used in geothermal desalination

a small easy model of a nuclear reactor

what can an African country without a recycling plant do to avoid completely discarding old computers and cellphones.

how can e-waste be controlled in Africa

Anyone here who has used/non-working/dead ballpens?

Home Green Tips

Home Security to Bark About

Dogs are not just furry companions—they can also be excellent deterrents for burglars. When you see that someone has a dog in his/her home, are you more cautious of how you approach the dog, especially if it’s the first time you’re meeting...

Hazardous Waste Might be Lurking Near Your Home

There could be so many environmental dangers lurking around the outside of your home, but you wouldn’t know about them unless you did some serious research. Before you lived in your home, there could have been a company or factory there or...

Safe and Efficient Home Lighting

Setting up your outdoor and indoor house lights with timers is a basic step to preventing crime. When there are lights outside the entrances of your home, there are fewer areas for burglars to hide or stake out your home. Also, a couple indoor...

Natural Spa Day at Home

Now that you have purchased the perfect gifts for your loved ones, baked delicious cookies and cooked a large enough meal for the entire family, isn’t it time for you to have a moment to yourself? There are some easy ways to pamper yourself...

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Making Yogurt at Home

The thought of making yogurt at home might seem strange to some. A very complicated process which can surely only be done in a factory. But how do you think yogurt was made before it was mass-produced and sold to grocery stores? At...

Relieve Lower Back Pain at Home

Lower back pain is often a result of overuse. Even if you don't have an active job or lifestyle, sitting at an office desk for eight hours can put a strain on your muscles. However, the pain can also come from an injury to your ligaments, discs...

Sprouting in your kitchen

Sprouting at home is easy fun, and much easier than most would imagine. If you are planning on cooking up a stir-fry this week, there’s nothing quite like a fresh bunch of bean sprouts to complete the meal. Here are some tips...

Healthy Kitchen

When moving from traditional cleaning to green cleaning, it’s helpful to isolate each room and figure out ways to make them more environmentally friendly. The kitchen is a great room to start with because there are a lot of changes to be made!...

Hey Good Looking - Tips for a Greener Kitchen

It’s six o’clock, you’re tired, you get in the door and dump your groceries on the kitchen bench. The last thing on your mind is saving the planet. However, the classic art of culinary cuisine, eco-style is not all that hard to achieve. Be...

Some Greener Options For The Kitchen - And More

With housing prices skyrocketing, a modest renovation might be more feasible than a whole new home. Kitchens and bathrooms are popular rooms for a fix, due to their heavy use and ever-changing trends in hardware and design. It turns out that...

The Green Kitchen

These days many people are re-evaluating every aspect of their daily lives to live a more environmentally friendly lifestyle. One major area of focus is our homes. There are more and more homes being built or remodeled with environmental issues...

Green Tips in The Kitchen

We do spend reasonable amounts of time in the kitchen. While major appliances such as the refrigerator, freezers, washing machine are major power drains, you can also cut down power in the kitchen by other smaller appliances. As you scan your...

Gardening Challenge: Companion Planting

Gardening can be a simplistic process if you don’t have a green thumb, but by incorporating companion planting into your annual garden planning, you can take your fruits and vegetables to the next level. Not only will your garden result in a...

DIY Inexpensive and Eco-friendly Seedling Pots...

Get a Head Start on Your Garden

Are you a beginner at gardening? Even if you don’t think you’re gifted with a green thumb, laying the groundwork for a vegetable garden can increase the chances of having a rewarding harvest. Preparing the soil requires some time, but the end...

Fall Garden Prep

Autumn is a busy time of year with a lot of things to prepare for the coming winter including your garden. It is important to get a head start on spring planting and...

Wildlife Garden: Checklist for September

When you have a wildlife garden, there are some tasks you should complete during the month of September. For instance, you need to mow the meadow/wildflower lawn, harvest any remaining fruit, plant evergreens, clear annual flower beds and collect...

Smart Choices in Your Garden

Spring is upon us, and garden enthusiasts across the Northern Hemisphere are excitedly preparing for a new season of horticulture. In the coming weeks we'll dedicate a handful of Daily Green Tips to this popular hobby. There is practically no...

The Truth About Organic Gardening

It is often assumed that anything labeled organic or natural will be good for the garden, but a new book from author Jeff Gillman aims to shed a little light on a few organic gardening myths. Jeff Gillman teaches horticulture at the University...

6 Ways to Reuse Baby Wipe Containers

Green Bedding for Baby

Bedding accessories for children can be expensive, and although you want your child to grow up to be big and strong, it happens quickly…sometimes too quickly that your wallet can’t seem to catch up. Hand-me-down cribs and toddler beds are a...

More Lead Recalls Plague Consumers

TDI International based in Los Angeles, CA is recalling approximately 150 toy trucks due to lead contamination. It is a high speed pull-back toy that is manufactured in China. The truck is yellow, with the words "Prowl" and "Victor" on the unit...

Alternatives to Baby Powder

What’s really robbing you off your tropical...

We all love a vacation to the tropics. Just the mere thought of the pristine white beaches coupled with the promise of sunny blue skies is enough to make us feel one step closer to heaven, a far cry from the hustle and bustle of our...

Swap, Don't Bin it For Holiday Clearout

With Christmas and New Years out the way, now is the perfect time to clear out the clutter; but there's no need to through out stuff that new gifts have replaced or head down the mall for stall credit, as there are several, greener options for...

Organic Produce is Better for your Child than...

What is making us take cognizance of the dangers caused by polluting the environment is the toll it is taking on our children. More than four million children could be saved every year if there are proper environmental management policies in...

Gardening Challenge: Companion Planting

6 Ways to Reuse Baby Wipe Containers

Green Bedding for Baby

Summer Solstice Resolutions

The start of a new year is the traditional time to take stock and make some changes. Spurred on by the calendar - going from one year to the next - turning over a new leaf is another form of renewal. However, winter is a hard time to make...

Summer Reading

Sitting outside or in the park this summer with a good book can get you inspired to do something positive for the world around you. If you have children, they are probably in a summer reading program, so why not create your own program based...

Family Resolution: Start Composting

Organic materials such as food and yard waste make up 24 percent of the materials dumped into Ohio landfills. The problem with this is that a simple process can recycle these organic materials. Do something good for the environment and compost in...

Permaculture

Permaculture is a “design system” (read: way of life) which was coined in the 70s by Australians Bill Mollison and David Holmgren. This system, which is centered on the environment branches out in every direction...

Greening your Back to School Shopping

Calling all back to school shoppers stocking-up on supplies for the coming school year, and all office managers who send out weekly orders for supplies, do you have an urge to go green (or at a very minimum green(er)? Are you confused by all...

Outdoor Schools

Much as I am a proponent of education in general, there is much to improve in our current system. Take 20 (or more) five-year-olds and close them in a small room. Put on ghastly fluorescent lights and pipe in air. Now expect cooperation and...

Make This School Year A Little Greener

The new school year begins in a few days. Why not start the school year right by helping your child and your child’s school become a little greener? Below are a couple of steps you can take to help green your school. 1. Start With Your...

Where to Find Green School Supplies

September is just around the corner and many of us already have the school supply list in hand, ready to get our kids ready for the school year and off on the right foot. This year, how about making a lighter environmental footprint in the...

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