Green Living - Recent Questions and Answers
Enjoying a long and healthy life is a goal most would like to achieve. The truth is, to understand the secrets of staying healthy, we just have to use common sense and commit to m...
Different recycling symbols signify different types of plastic and may require different types of treatment, especially if your community has a limited recycling program. Recycling...
A lot of people would like to start living green at home, but it's not easy to start especially with the hustle and bustle of modern day life. Surrounded by convenience products a...
In the minds of most people, green living is associated with buying electric or hybrid cars and installing windmill generators. Unfortunately, all of these require you to spend sub...
Our offices can place a huge strain on the environment. In fact, many of us waste more energy and resources at the office than we do in our own homes. If you want to lower your env...
When most people think of cloth diapering, images of plastic trash-bag like pants and sharp safety pins come to mind. Many people also conjure up images of older days with mom sta...
The sound follows you throughout the house: thump, thump, thump. If it's not the thud of the hind legs against the belly, you may notice the biting, gnawing, or chewing of your per...
For years there's been a heated debate in Massachusetts about windmills.
Yep, windmills.
People like Yachters Against Windmills complain that the windmills that Massachuset...
Learn to do it yourself!
Are you tired of forking over a large portion of your hard earned money to a greedy power company? Tired of visiting the grocery store and experiencing s...
Five dollars for half a pint of organic blueberries, or three dollars for the same size package of conventional? Three dollars for the bottle of cleaner or four dollars for the al...
Plastic is the ultimate convenience product, but is it more dangerous than useful? We know plastic bags clutter landfills and we’ve seen them littering roads, but plastic has a mor...
You cannot walk through the cleaning supply section of a retail store without nearly choking on the fumes. Many cleaning supplies today still contain a cocktail of chemicals that c...
If you're asking, how can I make and use green cleaning products, then you're probably aware of at least the general dangers of using toxic chemicals around your family and pets. U...
Be Green and Save Money Doing It
I believe that on some level, everyone wants to be eco-friendly, but I also believe that a lot of people think that being green needs to go to ext...
If you're a business owner thinking about retrofitting your existing lighting to new LED lighting, now is a great time to do so. LED lighting upgrades have never been more afforda...
All Tomatoes Are Not Created Equal
If you put two tomatoes side by side in the middle of summer, one picked fresh from a local farm in the Nehalem Valley, and one shipped from Me...
The facts are not in dispute. The world is becoming victim to its own success. Technology has propelled humans out of the dark ages. Prosperity without thought to sustainability ma...
I'm starting to think green teams are going the way of green marketing--they are over. Over in the sense that stand alone, grassroots, voluntary, bottoms-up efforts have matured i...
Responsible homeowners are always looking for ways to lower their energy costs while maximizing their home's energy efficiency. Solar power is a renewable energy source that provid...
We all have them sitting around the house, in musty boxes or dark corners of the basement: old picture frames whose glory days are long past. If you've set them aside for your next...