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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...
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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...
Nature Tables: Bringing the Seasons Home
Much like an altar, a nature table is a special place you keep in your home with symbols of the season going on around you outside. It’s something to reflect on and use for making your connection to the living Earth...
Little Known Secret Healing Powers of Turmeric Spice
Learn the secrets behind the healing potency of herbs and spices like turmeric for diseases like arthritis, cancer, and liver disorders. Eastern medicines have traditionally benefited from the medicinal efficacy of...
6 Foods Rich in Iron to Prevent Iron Deficiency
Iron deficiency anemia results from low iron diets. Here is a list of iron-rich foods; healthy foods high in iron for those suffering from iron deficiency. This collection of top foods rich in iron is a valuable source...
What You Need to Know About Drugs and Chemicals in Your Drinking Water
Who among us would collect the pills from our neighbors’ medicine cabinets and randomly swallow a handful, or unscrew the top of a shampoo bottle and drink it? Yet with the discovery that pharmaceuticals and...
A Case for a Messy Garden
There are many things that can be said for my vegetable garden; however, neat is not one of them. I prescribe to what can be described as the “messy garden” school of thought. No organized, tidy rows, no...
Clearing the Air, Best Plants for Improving Indoor Air Quality
Traffic, smog, pollution, haze… whatever the cause, the effect is lower air quality in cities across the world. While there are different ways to tackle this problem, researcher Kamal Meattle has come up with a...
How to Plant a Vegetable Garden
If you’ve ever tasted fresh-off-the-vine tomatoes or other home-grown vegetables, you’ll likely never forget the flavor. Maybe you’ve thought about starting your own vegetable garden—in your backyard...
What You Need to Know to Become an Urban Farmer
Whether you have a tiny yard or no outdoor space at all, you can become an urban farmer. Growing your own produce saves money, beautifies your space and reduces your carbon footprint. It is a lot of fun, a great...
Easy Steps to Greening Your Office
Green Office Tips — Each year, the average American office worker uses 500 disposable cups and 10,000 sheets of paper. In the same time frame, computers thrown out by businesses and homes contribute 1 billion pounds of...
Sustainable Thanksgiving
As we begin to plan that lovely day of gorging ourselves silly, we can be green conscious in our Thanksgiving Menu. There are many levels of environmentally friendly ways to ‘do’ Thanksgiving, the most...
8 Ways to Reduce the Impact of Christmas on the Environment
Cometh Yuletide and cometh the season of extravagance. So, here’s another opportunity to do our Earth a favor by giving a thought to the environment. Put some innovation behind your thought and have a green Christmas...
Shining a Light on Solar Panels: The Basics
How do solar panels work – Live in an area with plentiful sunshine? Want to reduce your electric bill and decrease your carbon footprint? Then you may be thinking of installing solar panels. That’s great. But...
Baby Eczema: How to Treat Eczema in Babies
Does your baby suffer from eczema? There are ways to help treat the symptoms of eczema for your baby. Learn the different ways to help your baby feel better and stop suffering. Baby eczema, a condition of the epidermis...
Sustainable Definition, What Is Sustainability?
What is sustainability? – Let me start by saying what sustainability is not. It is not endless consumerism based on the pharmaceutical industry, plastic bags, traffic jams, war, clearcuts, chemicals, genetically...
Green Holiday Ideas: Reserving Christmas & Thanksgiving Leftovers
Green ideas for how to reuse leftover Holiday food this Christmas, Thanksgiving, or Easter. Creative ways to reserve leftovers, conserve food, & save money. There are a variety of ways to be green this holiday...
Backyard Biodiversity, How to Setup Your Own Nature Reserve
Backyard biodiversity. The bobcat, timber rattlesnake, trumpeter swan, cave salamander, and pirate perch. No one would blame you if you assumed these species reside only in zoos. Actually, they are some of the...
