Global Population to Hit 7 Billion

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the Natural Living RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!According to the US Census Bureau, the world population is scheduled to hit 7 billion by the year 2012. India and China are the countries with the largest populations and the US is currently third [...]

What is Fair Trade Coffee?

“The chief concern of the Fair Trade movement has been to ensure that the vast majority of the world’s coffee farmers (who are small holders) get a fair price for their harvests in order to achieve a decent living wage. Fair Trade guarantees to poor farmers organized in cooperatives around the world: a living wage; [...]

Video: Green Home Makeover Part 3

Video: Green Home Makeover Part 3
In this video, Alive and Well TV talks about addressing clutter and organizing with revolutionary closet organization systems as well as some eco friendly ways to decorate your backyard.
Links from the video:
Easyclosets.com
Shoji-living.com
Can-am.ca
Slide-lok.com
Brownjordan.com
Orecontainers.com

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Start an Organic Salad Garden

“When you garden organically, you think of your plants as part of a whole system within Nature that starts in the soil and includes the water supply, people, wildlife and even insects. An organic gardener strives to work in harmony with natural systems and to minimize and continually replenish any resources the garden consumes.” Organicgardening.com
Author: [...]

Is Ethanol The Answer to Our Fuel Problems?

Have you ever driven across the midwest? While farmers seem very proud of their “heartland” and they exude patriotism while overlooking their “amber waves of grain”, others see is a vast wasteland, where pesticides have replaced the oxygen giving trees and forests that used to blanket entire states.
This might be acceptable if the [...]

How Modern Fishing Practices Destroy Marine Life

I received a reader response to the article that I just posted about The Floating, Plastic Dump in the Pacific Ocean. My reader sent me a great link to a slideshow on pbs.org that everyone should watch who is interested in the condition of our oceans due to modern fishing practices.
The slideshow includes information [...]

Eco Friendly Bamboo Flooring

Whether you are remodeling an existing home or designing a new home with green in mind, the green features and benefits of a bamboo floor are certainly worth your consideration.
Author: Ernest Jarquio
“There is no question that bamboo is a renewable resource- it is a grass and grows very quickly. Where oak takes 120 [...]