The other day on Twitter someone asked me if I had a resource for finding local, grass-fed meat and dairy products, and I decided that I would mention it here as well because you guys may be interested too.
There is a website called Eat Wild which is a tremendous source of information on [...]
What can you compost? Good question! While composting can be an effective, environmentally friendly way of dealing with some waste products, it’s important to know what you can and cannot put in your compost pile. Put in the wrong items and you could end up with a useless pile of infested, decaying matter — [...]
Still buying and using paper checks from your bank? There is a better way! While some banks provide checks and checkbooks for free, most of them charge a small fortune for a book of checks. Luckily, there are plenty of companies offering checks at discounted rates far below whatever your bank is charging you, and [...]
Everyone knows that you can recycle bottles, cans, and paper. But there are many other things that can be recycled or reused through a variety of companies and organizations, or just by applying a little creativity. Let’s take a look at ten things you may not know you could recycle:
1. Old Cars – Old cars [...]
It is a common misconception for many people that bottled water is safer than tap, plastic bottles get recycled, and no harm is being done to the environment in the bottling process. Unfortunately, that could not be further from the truth!
If you are on a budget or just plain refuse to pay the extra for organic fruits and vegetables, there really are some good reasons to buy at least a few of those items in the organic version if you can.
A weekly roundup of important green news stories from around the web…
How much of fashion giant H&M’s progress is part of an honest, dedicated commitment to doing good, and how much is just great greenwashing? Let’s have a look at some of the facts behind the marketing.
President Barack Obama had a lot to say about [...]
Sometimes you have to go back to the basics, right? Well, as I have mentioned a few times lately, going green doesn’t have to be expensive. In fact, you can actually save a lot of money by greening your life, rather than spending a ton. Marketing tricks and television advertising do their best to convince [...]
$299 for organic cotton jeans. $20 for a pair of organic cotton socks. $3,000 for a coffee table made of reclaimed wood. “Going green” can be an expensive endeavor if you are to only buy eco-friendly goods made entirely from sustainably-harvested materials with fair-trade labor practices. Let’s be honest, most of us cannot afford to [...]
In the last 11 years since 2000, 9 of them have been the warmest years ever recorded. NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies has kept temperature records since 1880, and the records show that the first 11 years of the 2000’s were hotter than both the middle and late 20th century, according to James Hansen, [...]
Q: Are there healthy, green-friendly mouthwashes? I’ve heard that some contain formaldehyde and other nasty substances.
Many mainstream mouthwashes contain ingredients that you definitely don’t want to swallow, or even put down the drain. According to the Environmental Health Association of Nova Scotia’s (EHANS’s) “Guide to Less Toxic Products”—a free online resource designed to help consumers [...]
A weekly roundup of important green news stories from around the web…
I’ve lost track of how many times I’ve been told by industry and government insiders that while the expansion of the tar sands may be a terrible thing, there’s simply no way to stop it. Well, we’ve found a way. President Obama has just [...]
While organic foods are often thought to cost much more than conventionally-grown foods, the truth is that the difference is usually just a few nickels or dimes. Sure, you’re always going to run into an organic item here and there that costs way more than it’s standard counterpart, but that’s become more of an exception [...]
