Home Heating Alternatives

•Be Eco Friendly With Your Energy Choices and Reusable Bags
The earth has many resources that we all use every single day. Many of these resources we use without even thinking about it while others we choose to use. Sometimes the choices we make are a direct consequence of price. For instance, we may travel further distances to find a cheaper gas station. There are other choices we can make that we don't think much about it such as energy. Yet, when we are out grocery shopping, we often have to choose what kind of bag we want to use: paper or plastic....

•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...

•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...

•Tips For Going Green With Your Car
It's a warm sunny day, the kind where you like to wash and wax the car. You go to your local big box store's auto section and pick out your supplies. As you check out, you get that ever-prevalent question about bagging your purchase; paper or plastic…or a reusable shopping bag for a dollar and ninety-nine cents? You decide to spring for the reusable bag and load in your purchase. At home as you begin to clean the car you wonder what else you might do with your car to promote green and eco...

•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...