Live Green

There are so many great things I'd love to do to make my home greener.  For a variety of reasons, I haven't done them all yet, but they remain on my list and I hope to get to them eventually. Here are 25 Green Ideas you might also consider: Composting - this is the next thing I'll do.  A composter tumbler is a must for easy composting. Tubular skylights - I can think of at least 5 places I'd put one of these in my home.  Seriously awesome idea. See if radiant barrier foil makes sense - we installed this in the Summer of ... Read Full Story

Our family is very careful about what we put in our bodies.  We eat a largely organic diet and minimize our exposure to toxins.  I make my own all natural cleaning supplies .    We bathe our kids with all natural, organic shampoos and use only the safest sunscreen.    Our fruits and vegetables are mainly organic.  Our dairy is always organic.  Our meat and poultry is organic, or at the very least, vegetarian-fed and free of antibiotics and growth hormones.  Our organic diet allows us to avoid artificial colors and flavors, as well as high fructose corn syrup. We have all but eliminated ... Read Full Story

Earth Hour is an annual international event created by the WWF (World Wildlife Fund) , held on the last Saturday of March, that asks households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change . Based on an idea successfully executed in Thailand in 2005, it was pioneered by WWF Australia and the Sydney Morning Hearld in 2007 and achieved worldwide participation in 2008. Earth Hour will next take place on Saturday, March 28, 2009 at 8:30 pm, local time. All’s set for Earth Hour on March ... Read Full Story

Eco-Friendly Tips 13 ways to help the environment. Bike, use public transit, carpool to work, drive slower, keep your tires inflated One-third of all traffic is commuters. Use alternative transportation when possible. If you must drive, go slower with proper tire inflation. It saves both fuel and tires, and lowers emissions. It also saves lives. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Compost Reusing packaging material saves more energy than recycling. By avoiding extra packaging, you save both energy and landfill space. Yard and kitchen waste (leaves/grass/vegetable scraps) are 30% of trash. Reduce this amount by composting. Also be sure to re-use plastic bags, or better yet… ... Read Full Story

by Daniel Walsh Author of Our Sunday "History & Reflections" Series “And in snowfall there is the gentlest of tinkling as ten thousand ice crystals bounce down from leaf to leaf.” ~Earle Barnhart Earle Barnhart wrote those words at the end of a magazine article as homage to Chinese poets who wrote about the bamboo plant. The words were inspired by his own bamboo plants that he had nurtured to 25-foot heights outside his house on Cape Cod. He was a founding member of the New Alchemy Institute , an organization in existence from 1971 to 1991 that studied ecologically derived human support systems. ... Read Full Story