Tips to Green Your Holiday

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What is better? Real or artificial? Deforestation or plastic contraption? Here is Christmas tree 101 with tips from the Chicago Tribune.
Artificial
Pros: Durable, affordable, easy to set up and maintain and continues to look [...]

Feng Shui Life - Declutter With A Yard Sale

by Laurie Raphael
As you may already know, the first step to obtaining a feng shui life is to rid your home and yourself of all the stale and dead energy around you by getting rid of all the clutter. One really good way to do that is by having a yard sale.
There are many [...]

Top Ways To Green Your Home

A green home is one that is eco-friendly and is at harmony with the environment. You can help the environment by making your home greener. Here is how you can do so by adopting a more energy-efficient and earth-friendly lifestyle.
Read the following top ways to green your home.

1. Upgrade to greener appliances.
Make your [...]

Sit on Your Compost with the Composting Bench

For some, figuring out where you can start composting can be a bit of a challenge. After all, there are a few things you should keep in mind, like how far the compost heap should be from your home, how to keep it hidden away from nosy neighbors and prying eyes, and how to keep [...]

Use Worms for Easy Composting

>Composting is easy as long as you have the right materials and equipment, but did you know that even the worms are composting’s best friend? Vermicomposting or vermiculture is essentially the process of composting with the use of worms and their castings (i.e., worm waste). An easy and fun way to compost for your garden [...]

How to Green Your Pumpkin

Maybe like me you had no idea that your pumpkin needed to be “greened”. My personal Halloween concerns usually center around razor blades in apples and trying to protect my daughter from the feast of the addictive, artificial nasty stuff that adults like to give children by the bagful. But…according to Gaiam-life, over [...]

Celebrate Earth Day Everyday

12 Ways You Can Celebrate Earth Day Everyday

I ask you to consider honoring Mother Earth everyday. We can not continue to take from our resources and never give back in return. There needs to be a balance in nature. We have moved so far away from living in harmony with nature. The foods that we [...]

Green Weddings

The traditional wedding is expensive, extravagant, and elegant. The bride and groom will pay a large amount of money to create an elegant, romantic, and fairytale wedding. Today we are seeing increasing numbers environmentally conscious brides and grooms choosing green weddings.
Green weddings show the initiative, awareness and responsibility to take care of our environment. Green [...]

Manage Waste, Conserve Energy, Save Money - Go Green Today!

Earlier in the week I was at our local health food store waiting for my turn at the check-out counter when I noticed the lady in front of me had bought her own re-usable carry bags which suddenly made a lot more sense to me than choosing “paper or plastic”. When we witness examples of [...]

Composting for Beginners

Lots of novice gardeners believe that their plants and vegetables only need plenty of water and sunlight in order to sustain a healthy and fruitful lifespan. However this is not entirely true as plants also need healthy soil rich in nutrients to be able to survive and grow properly. The solution to this dilemma is [...]