I don’t know about you, but I love This Old House. Watching the crew complete restoration projects not only gives me ideas for my own home, but it actually provides me with the motivation to get things done. They also happen to provide you with tips and ideas on how to turn certain projects into green ones helping you make [ Read More → ]
I don’t know about you, but I love This Old House. Watching the crew complete restoration projects not only gives me ideas for my own home, but it actually provides me with the motivation to get things done. They also happen to provide you with tips and ideas on how to turn certain projects into green ones helping you make [ Read More → ]
Let’s face it, buying organic foods is almost always more expensive than purchasing those same foods produced in traditional commercial methods. The question becomes whether or not the extra money is worth it. To help answer this, the Environmental Working Group has put together a Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides. This guide will help you determine which foods have the most [ Read More → ]
It’s hard to believe, but this is Memorial Day weekend. Even though summer does not officially begin until June 21st, this weekend marks the unofficial start to the season of swimming pools, barbeques and vacations! As we plan our summer getaways, going green is not often on the to do list. So, we’ve made it easy for you with this [ Read More → ]
So you’re probably thinking to yourself, “What does my diet have to do with the economy?” I know, I thought the same thing when I came across an article on The Huffington Post. The article, written by Kerry Truman, highlights a film called Forks Over Knives by Brian Wendel and Lee Fulkerson. After reading the article and visiting the film’s [ Read More → ]
So you’ve taken on a home improvement project and you are remodeling your kitchen or bathroom. You’ve read our articles on paints and stains as well as on flooring, and you have made eco-friendly choices for those parts of your renovation job. Now you have to choose countertops. Conventional wisdom says to go for the granite. It is beautiful and [ Read More → ]
As promised, this is part two in a series about making your home improvement projects more environmentally friendly. This was originally going to be only a two part series, but we found when writing it, that there was a substantial amount of information about eco-friendly flooring. So, this article covers flooring and part three will discuss green choices for countertops.
Flooring:
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This is part one in a two part series in making your home improvement projects more environmentally friendly.
This time of year seems to be a great time for home improvement projects. Before you paint your house, stain your deck or replace your kitchen floor, check out our suggestions for green products that can help make your improvement project eco-friendly.
Paint:
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We are of the general opinion that television programming has “jumped the shark”. Instead of quality programs, most channels are filled with mind numbing reality shows that cover every mundane topic from the contents of storage units to the lives of 8 20-somethings that live in New Jersey. How anyone is supposed to get something worthwhile out of shows like [ Read More → ]
I don’t know about you, but at our house, we have accumulated an enormous amount of “stuff” that we simply do not need. The truth is (and yes I’m going to call him out) my husband is a pack rat! It is amazing the number of boxes that have lived in our garage and basement for years with the contents [ Read More → ]
While the Meatless Monday movement dates to 2003, Americans’ growing interest in eating more sustainably has made this idea increasingly popular across the country.
All but the tiniest percentage of meat consumed in the United States is raised on an industrial scale. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, the start-to-finish process of [ Read More → ]
