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Why You Need Your Own Space
Stress can really impact your health, mental and physical. Thus, finding a way to improve that is to learn to manage your stress, and in order to do that, you need to have your own space. Here is how creating a place...
Decorate Your Bay Windows with Curtains and Curtain Poles
A beautiful home is incomplete without its share of windows. If you are lucky to have a home that boasts of this remnant of Victorian architecture, time to make most of it. A window could be your escape to the world...
Stress Reduction Techniques And Ideas
Stress is one of the biggest killers in the modern world. You hear about it almost every day. Parents are stressed, employees are stressed, even young people are stressed. Stress can and does affect all walks of life...
Window Treatment Ideas for a Finished Basement
Are you giving your basement windows with the proper treatment? Although basement windows are small, they can have a huge impact in a finished basement, making it brighter and more pleasant. Window Treatment Ideas for a...
How to Make Your House More Attractive to Your Target Buyers
Many homeowners wonder how they can improve their chances of selling their property quickly because of the competitive real estate market. If you finally decide to list your home, there are a few things that you should...
5 Things You Need to Know About Moving Into a New House
Moving into a new house or place can be exciting but daunting. While you look at apartments for rent and get moved in, make sure your new home is just what you want. Moving Into a New House: Five Things You Need to Know...
How to Teach Children Racism by Learning Animal Behaviors
Information on how racism is handed down to children and how hate grows. How we can learn from animals to be human beings. Teaching children to think about decisions they make based on color or race and learning to look...
Parenting a Child With Down Syndrome: Care, Discipline & Special Considerations
According to the National Down Syndrome Society, Down syndrome occurs in one of every 733 live births. Learn your likelihood of having a baby born with Down syndrome, as well as some of the issues faced when raising a...
How to Make a Rope Halter With Fiador Knot, Step by Step Instructions
Tying a fiador knot is a feat unto itself, but once learned can prove extremely useful in making a rope halter for your horse. How to Make a Rope Halter With Fiador Knot: What is a Fiador Knot? A rope halter with a...
Permaculture: A System for Sustainable Living
Why battle against the Earth to force it to produce products that naturally wouldn’t flourish? As a different approach, permaculture mimics natural ecosystems to maximize food production as well as create sustainable...
Greening Your Bathroom for Your Health and the Earth’s
These days, it’s hard to go anywhere without hearing something about going green or becoming eco-friendly. With the world’s population and consumption both rising at an alarming rate while the world’s natural...
How to Choose and Use a Home Rainwater Catchment System
How big is your H2O footprint? With water shortages a growing concern, it makes sense to calculate and then try to reduce it. Once you do, a rainwater catchment system will guarantee that the water you do use comes...
Professional Commercial Garden Maintenance Services
Everybody loves to have some green space around houses and even commercial buildings, so as to bring in the warmth of nature. But maintaining such greens can be tough. Untrimmed trees, overgrown bushes, and musty...
Eco Baby: Essential Tips for the Eco-Conscious New Mom
A baby brings new responsibilities—and a whole new life. While it might seem overwhelming at first, with a few simple adjustments, you can watch over your little one and the environment at the same time—because what’s...
How to Throw a Green Birthday Party for Your Child
Want your child’s birthday party to make an impact on the guests and not the environment? It’s easier than you think to throw a green birthday bash without straining your budget or disappointing your child. First, it’s...
A Creative and Environmental Gift Wrap Alternative
Don’t buy so much (or any!) wrapping paper this holiday season. There are many alternative ways to decorate the birthday, anniversary, holiday and other presents you pass around. One of my favorites is to wrap...
Teaching Kids About the Earth: Resources for Parents
Teaching kids to appreciate the environment is important to their happiness and to humanity’s survival. And it all starts with parents modeling responsible stewardship of the Earth by making a practice of conserving...
Simple Nature Crafts for Kids—or Anyone
Would you believe me if I told you that there is an eco-friendly and renewable craft store in your very own neighborhood? Yes, yours. I’d like to invite you to a craft store that can be found wherever you are and will...
Kids’ Environmental DIY: Make a Pizza-Box Solar Oven
The nice folks at GrowNYC, formerly Council on the Environment of New York City (CENYC), have implemented a city-schools program to train students in initiating renewable forms of energy in their homes. One of the most...
