By admin on July 11th, 2010
Tips for the house: turn the heating down, grow your own food, switch off appliances, make your own draft excluders. Do a home energy check to get advice on where you can save money and energy in your house.
Homebase Interactive Energy house, a virtual 3D house, allows users to walk from room to room, click on hotspots and get advice
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By admin on July 10th, 2010
Tired of the perpetual barrage of artificial chemicals and questionable side effects, many individuals have turned to ancient and completely natural solutions to quell their various ills.
DIY types with a bit of space to spare – even a windowsill will do! – may want to take their pharmaceutical pursuits one step further and create for themselves a garden full of
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By admin on July 10th, 2010
Summer and fall are the seasons of abundance. Fruits and vegetables abound in backyard gardens, farmer’s markets and stores.
Sometimes, like when your own garden is peaking, and the farmer’s markets are replete with everything from avocados to zucchini, that abundance can be overwhelming. Then it’s time to preserve, freeze and can, so you can seize Mother Nature’s gifts while they
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By admin on July 9th, 2010
Clothes unsalvageable even for the Salvation Army?
This September, New York City will unveil one of the largest textile-recycling initiatives in the country. Its purpose: To make recycling unwanted threads as pain-free as pitching them in the garbage—no small feat, considering that a Goodwill Industries survey of 600 North American adults found that more than half wouldn’t travel more than 10
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By admin on July 9th, 2010
Summer is the season for fresh, local foods and bountiful farmers’ markets, but unfortunately, too few of us are really taking advantage of nature’s harvest. Even though eating what’s in season, and cooking for ourselves, should be cheaper than processed and prepared fare, many people are stuck on old habits.
This is also true despite the fact that cooking your own
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By admin on July 9th, 2010
PARIS, France — More than 30 companies are testing out a packaging sustainability measurement system that one group hopes becomes a worldwide standard.
The system was developed through the Consumer Goods Forum’s Global Packaging Project (GPP), and includes a list of 52 indicators (and how to measure them) like weight, recycling rates, virgin content and shelf life.
The basics of the
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By admin on July 9th, 2010
Suppliers of tissue and towel products have traditionally focused on the amount of recycled fiber content of these products when making environmentally conscious purchase decisions.
The current thinking is: If a product is recycled, then it must be good for the environment, and the more recycled content there is, the better.
Certainly, utilizing recycled fiber helps to reduce the demand on natural
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By admin on July 8th, 2010
Try not to get overwhelmed with finding paper towels that follow all these guidelines. If not all, try to get them to follow as many as you can.
Use 100% recycled, not virgin fibers
Gone are the days of the those brown scratchy recycled paper towels. They do still exist in the occasional public bathroom but they are not your only option
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By admin on July 8th, 2010
The flow of digital information running through today’s enterprises is like a faucet that never turns off. It’s amazing how human beings have adapted to the blazing speed of technology. Yet it’s frustrating because at the same time, our new computers eventually become slower to boot up, they crash and involve lengthy and painful interactions with technical support. They also
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By admin on July 7th, 2010
We’ve rounded up five for your consideration, including several tried-and-true methods from the days before central air. Give one or two a shot, and see how they work for you.
1) Go tropical
Take the lead of those who spend most of their lives in tropical climates: loose, lightweight cotton and linen clothing rules.
2) Cool that pulse point
When you were sick as
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