When I was a kid, the big phrase in living green was Reduce, Recycle and Reuse. I have always kept that thought in my head as I read the various articles about ways to be more green. While there is a ton of information about recycling and reducing your waste, people seem to have forgotten about reusing. Maybe … [Read more...]
3 Simple Ways To Live Green After Christmas
December 26, 2011 By Leave a Comment
OK, I swear to you this is the last Christmas post of this year, and we can get back to normal tomorrow, but I can't not mention the negative green implications of post Christmas. The presents have been opened, the boxes ripped open and the tree...is still probably sitting in your front room. Landfills … [Read more...]
Power Your Home With A Personal Wind Turbine
December 12, 2011 By Leave a Comment
When I get my power and gas bills in the winter, I can't help but do a double take. It seems every year my bills keep getting bigger and bigger, but I'm not using any more heat or electricity. I live in a 100-year-old home that's drafty and takes a fortune to heat. If this sounds familiar to you, … [Read more...]
Green Living: Reduce, Reuse And Recycle Those Plastic Bags
November 7, 2011 By 1 Comment
While several cities, especially in California, are banning plastic grocery bags to help clean up the environment, there are many places that still use plastic bags, and the last thing we want to do is simply throw them in the trash. Plastic bags are called urban tumbleweeds because they are found … [Read more...]
Self-Sufficiency: Creating Your Own Home Energy Resources
October 17, 2011 By 1 Comment
I have talked of ways to save energy and how you can increase your energy savings through proper equipment, but another aspect of environmentalism is self-sufficiency. We take for granted how the electricity that enters our home is actually made. The primary ways of electricity production are the … [Read more...]
Going Green Only Takes a Few Minutes a Day
October 3, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Trying to live green may seem like a daunting task, but it only takes a few minutes a day to make a positive impact on the environment. We all have a responsibility to make the world a better place for our children but, all too often, each generation winds up cleaning up after the ecological messes of … [Read more...]
Go Green: Grow Your Own Food
August 8, 2011 By Leave a Comment
My mother-in-law is a prolific gardener of everything from flowers to tomatoes. She spends hours every day tending to her mammoth garden and, when it's all been harvested, she jars it up and sends it to the relatives. Those jars are then frozen, and for the next six months no one has to buy a vegetable … [Read more...]
Bright Idea: Save Electricity with New Lighting
July 25, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Saving electricity does a lot for the environment. Only a fraction of the power created in the United States is from a renewable energy source, such as solar, wind and water, which leaves the bulk of the generation from coal and natural gas. This translates to potentially ecologically unfriendly … [Read more...]
Water Conservation: Five Easy Ways to Save H2O
July 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
During the summer, many parts of the country suffer from droughts and are forced to conserve water but, the fact of the matter is, even parts of the country with a decent water supply should follow these water conservation methods, as well. Using water unnecessarily pollutes our lakes and rivers and … [Read more...]
Going Green: My “Ah-Ha” Moment
May 1, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The watch phrase for the world right now is to "live green and save the Earth". It was something that started in the early 1990s and gained momentum as gas prices started peaking around $3 and oil spills started coating little duckies in a thick layer of sludge on the 6 o’clock news. We all want … [Read more...]
