Category: Eco-Living

The Most Eco-Friendly Salmon

The Most Eco-Friendly Salmon

Looking for the greenest catch of the day on the menu of at your grocery store? The most eco-friendly options may surprise you. Salmon, for example, ranges from fine-for-the-environment to bad-for-the-environment depending on the variety. The fish gets plenty of press for it’s heart-healthy omega-3’s, but for the healthiest fillet, follow these recommendations.
First, a recent [...]

Cooking Tips for Eco-Friendly and Healthy Eating

Cooking Tips for Eco-Friendly and Healthy Eating

As you prepare to cook and bake lots of big holiday meals, consider these tips for making each one a little more eco-friendly.
Cook with Green Pans: If you want to call yourself an eco-friendly chef, you need to loose the Teflon pans once and for all. There are several safe and green non-stick pans available [...]

Small Changes You Can Make to Help the Environment

Small Changes You Can Make to Help the Environment

If you’re trying to live green, you may find it discouraging when you watch the news…or walk around your neighborhood…and see all the other people who aren’t living green. What good does it do the environment if one person lives green while others don’t?

The Truth Behind Toilet Paper and the Environment

The Truth Behind Toilet Paper and the Environment

I’ll admit it, before I was concerned about the environment, I used toilet paper without thinking about the negative impact it may have on the environment. We all just wipe our bottoms with it after doing our business, place it in the toilet bowl, flush our human and paper wastes down the septic tank and forget about it. There is also the matter of how much water is flushed down our toilets but that’s a story for another day. Now we need to look at how toilet paper affects the environment.

Reduce Indoor Air Pollution With Houseplants

Reduce Indoor Air Pollution With Houseplants

Are you worried about air pollution inside your home? If not, you should probably give it a second thought. According to the Evironmental Protection Agency (EPA), the air inside our homes is often more polluted than the air outside, even in urban areas. In fact, indoor air pollution gets a place on the list of [...]

Choosing Eco-Clothing For The Fashionable Person

Choosing Eco-Clothing For The Fashionable Person

If you want to start making a difference for the environment, it’s time to start living green. This will mean making active changes in nearly every aspect of your life. What it does not mean, however, is that you will need to sacrifice style to do this. By purchasing eco clothing for the fashion conscious person, you will be able to spend your money in a way that will encourage more designers to start making green clothing themselves.

How Teaching The Kids To Help The Planet Can Equal Saving, Cost-Cutting, and More Money For Your Family

How Teaching The Kids To Help The Planet Can Equal Saving, Cost-Cutting, and More Money For Your Family

Families everywhere are feeling this economy crisis. From smaller household budgets to less money for the little extras that kids enjoy, many are feeling the financial pinch of it all. While the world is experiencing this economy crisis, we are also an even bigger issue…a big need for greater environmental awareness and action. For families that want to make a difference for our world and still would like to save a few dollars to help their overall family budgets, we would like to present some basics for making that happen for you and your kids.

Green Homes and Eco-Friendly Dwellings

Green Homes and Eco-Friendly Dwellings

Protecting the environment has become a lot more important as we are starting to see the damage that pollutants are doing to it. Green homes are a great way to not only save the planet but also to save you money. There are many different adjustments that can be made to turn a home green and many of them don’t cost a lot of money. Those that do may qualify you as a buyer to get a tax credit for drafting and making your home more eco-friendly. So how what changes can you make to your home?

Why Drinking Bottled Water is Bad for You and the Environment

Why Drinking Bottled Water is Bad for You and the Environment

I find that a lot of people don’t like or just don’t trust the water that comes out of their tap. So instead of drinking that tap water, they spend a lot of their hard earned money on bottled water. You might say it still costs money to drink water from the tap but really it’s only a few extra pennies on the water bill. If you’re one like me who drinks tap water instead of bottled water, you can save quite a bit of money a year and also save the environment from hundreds of plastic bottles that don’t get recycled.

Learn The Top Information For Making Your House A Greener Home

Learn The Top Information For Making Your House A Greener Home

Are you interested in making your residence more energy efficient and green? With rising energy costs and sky high utility bills, most of us are looking for ways to cut costs and save some money. You can begin right at residence, by making a few easy changes to make your residence electricity efficient and more eco friendly.