Exposed: The Toxic Chemistry of Everyday Products

If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to the Natural Living RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!There is an overwhelming attitude of American citizens of unwavering trust in the US government to protect them from harm. Americans in general believe that all those three letter acronym government agencies exist, simply to protect [...]

Is Your Carpet Toxic?

Many people love their indoor carpeting and look forward to having brand new wall to wall carpeting installed. Did you realize however, that no matter how clean you keep your rug, even if you steam clean it weekly, it is still highly toxic to you, your family and your pets?
Over 60% of homes in [...]

How to Start a Butterfly Garden

“A butterfly garden is an easy way to both see more butterflies and to contribute towards their [...]

Video: Build a Worm Composting Bin

This is a great video that will show you just how easy it is to start a worm composting bin. What you need:

Red Composting Worms
Rubbermaid Bin
Worm bedding such as old leaves, grass clippings or shredded newspapers

You can put it under your sink, feed it anything compostable, do your part to save the [...]

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: [...]

A Floating, Plastic Garbage Dump

“We haven’t yet learned how to factor the health of the environment into our economic paradigm. We need to get to work on this calculus quickly, for a stock market crash will pale by comparison to an ecological crash on an oceanic scale.” Charles Moore
Did you know that there is a body of garbage floating [...]

Green Kitchens are Happy Kitchens

The kitchen is a great place to start going green because traditionally a kitchen is capable of gobbling resources faster than you can say “carbon footprint”. Start with energy star rated appliances, use the light of the sun more than the switch, eat fresh and raw and compost the scraps. That is just [...]

Worm Composting Tips

“This is a fascinating, fun, and easy way to recycle your organic kitchen wastes. Worm composting, or vermiculture, requires very little work, produces no offensive odors, and helps plants thrive. Only a few things are needed to make good worm compost: a bin, bedding, worms, and worm food.” Worm Composting - Earth911.org
Author: Duong Vicki
You may [...]

Good Garden Insects

Author: Robin Monarch
“HELP! I have ants and bees and worms…all over my garden! What do I do?” Sometimes beginning gardeners are concerned that they may have a problem with the creatures they encounter while playing in the dirt. So first, let’s determine if you really do have a problem or…are those ants or bees or [...]