I currently live in New Mexico, where daytime summer temperatures are usually between 90 and 100 degrees fahrenheit. However, there is one thing I am missing in my place that I have normally had access too, and that’s air conditioning. It’s a really small space that I work in, but it warms up rather quickly [...]
It’s back to school time! With families trying to save money by brown bagging their lunches to work and school, there’s a lot of waste – and money – going right into the trash. According to the EPA, each child who brings a brown bag lunch to school every day generates about 67 pounds of [...]
The fine folks over at Eartheasy.com have offered up an Earth Massage Showerhead to giveaway to a lucky reader. This 1.5 gallon-per-minute low-flow showerhead can save the average household 10,000 gallons of water annually over a standard showerhead, which will also save a lot on a family’s water bill. With a 9-jet adjustable turbo massage, [...]
What’s the first thing you think of when you think of the phrase EcoNest? Well, if you thought of an eco-friendly comfortable home, you’re pretty close to the meaning I came up with too. Natural building pioneer Robert Laporte and architect Paula Baker-Laporte created the EcoNest concept over 15 years ago, and along the way [...]
It”™s time for another great giveaway! This time, it”™s the opportunity to win one of three 17 oz bamboo and glass refillable bottles kindly offered up by the Bamboo Bottle Company for readers of The Good Human. These bottles retail for $25 and are made from renewable and sustainably-harvested bamboo, dishwasher-safe, 60 percent recycled glass, [...]
Q: I’m looking for the best places to search for green jobs but am having trouble locating them on traditional job search sites. Where should I look? With the environment now high atop the public agenda, green jobs are more popular than ever. Defined by eco.org (a leading green jobs website) as any job in [...]
Q: Isn’t spray sunscreen a health and environmental nightmare when it seems that more of the sunscreen ends up going up my nose than on the kid at the beach next to me? Spray cans of sunscreen may no longer contain chlorofluorocarbons (also known as CFCs, which were phased out in the 1990s for causing [...]
