Home & Garden

Environmentally conscious living leads to a happy and healthy lifestyle. Learn to keep your home and laundry chemical free, and spruce up your front yard by learning how to garden. Look to us for easy to use guides and a green thumb to help. From advice on recycling, to CFL lights and composting, there are endless things we can do in our everyday lives to protect our earth and keep ourselves healthy, fit, and happy.

July 19, 2010

The Local Food Movement

The word local is one of America’s hot new buzz words. Although the idea of buying locally grown food is…

July 7, 2010

Kleenex Hand Towels – an Enviornmental Waste!

For years now, we have been trying to make a move away from disposables. While some things, like diapers, are…

May 28, 2010

What is the Best Natural Shampoo?

There are plenty of choices in natural shampoos, so you may have to experiment with several brands and products before…

November 5, 2009

Carlo Petrini and the Slow Food Movement

In a nut shell, the slow food movement is the opposite of fast food. In fact, it was founded by…

June 12, 2009

LED vs CFL vs Incandescent vs Fluorescent: Which Shines Cleanest?

The future looks dim for incandescent light bulbs, the world-changing invention introduced by Thomas Edison in 1879. Part of the…

October 21, 2008

Can You Recycle Envelopes With Window In Them?

We once heard that throwing just a small amount of unrecyclable material would screw up the recycling process and cause…

June 23, 2008

Paper or Plastic? Tips to Reduce the Use of Plastic Bags

The average grocery store goes through thousands of plastic bags everyday. At home, consumers use hundreds of zip lock and…

June 17, 2008

Best Low Flush Toilet

Think about how many times during a day you go to pee. The average person pees about 9 times each…