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The Eco Friendly Use of Water
Every day we hear the term go green, but what does it mean? We have been having Earth Day for years but how much do you think the average person considers our environment for the remainder of the year? At almost any store today we see reusable shopping bags. How may people actually buy one? It looks like a quick and easy cure for the soul; buy a reusable bag and I'm green. How else can you really be green?
Green can mean many things and almost any activity or object has some form of impact on...
How to Create a Green Nursery
Preparing to bring your new baby home suddenly puts Green living into perspective. This is your child's future environment that you are protecting. Additionally, adopting a Green lifestyle can be extremely beneficial to your newborn's health as well.
Creating a Green nursery is the perfect way to either continue your Green lifestyle or get on board and create new, healthier habits for your baby and yourself.
Use No Or Low VOC Paint
VOCs are Volatile Organic Compounds that are toxic chemicals...
Purchase Eco Friendly Lawn and Garden Care Products and Bring Them Home in Reusable Bags
You decide to go shopping at your favorite lawn care store and while you are there, you notice that the store is promoting organic cotton totes and reusable shopping bags. You stop for a moment, thinking that you've seen reusable bags at your local grocery store. You start to think what else about your home is green. The answer lies in the very store you are in and that's your lawn and garden.
There are many people who believe a green lawn is a sign of vanity. However, a green lawn serves huge...
Are Your Laundry Habits Eco Friendly
On laundry day, you might discover yourself loading your organic cotton clothing into the washing machine. You're always looking for new ways to increase your green living. But are your laundry habits as eco-friendly as they could be?
As you load your reusable tote bags, and set the cycle, you think; do I need hot or even warm water? A good rule of thumb is hot is only for whites that you want disinfected such as underwear and towels. Almost anything else can be warm or even cold. Warmer wash...
Home Heating Alternatives
Whether you would like to keep your heating bills down in the winter from an economic or an environmentally friendly stand point, there are quite a few options available for you to utilize. Cost-saving has always been a motivating factor for people to make changes in their lifestyle and now in today's Eco-conscious society, it is even more important. This article explains some things you can do around the house to keep your heating bills down and help the environment at the same time.
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Using Solar Panels at Home
Recently when I was helping a friend with a home rehab, I was taken aback by the fuse box in the house. A ninety five year old house, it had been converted to electric in the early 1920's. It had exactly four fuses; two for the upstairs and two for downstairs. It had maybe fifty or sixty amps total capacity depending on the fuses.
As we were packing a bunch of new electric hardware into reusable shopping bags, also purchased at the store, I couldn't help but wonder at how much power...
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