Category: Green Living

100+ Sites for Everything Green

100+ Sites for Everything Green

Browsing through one of my favorite sites, Mashable, I came across a great read about 100+ sites for green living.
What’s great about the article is that it lists sights about practically EVERYTHING green, such as how to lower you carbon footprint, eco-friendly shopping, communities, networking and dating and so much more.
This list is pretty extensive [...]

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?

Top 10 GREEN Cities To Consider Moving To

Top 10 GREEN Cities To Consider Moving To

Perhaps not surprisingly, two of the top 10 “green cities” in the United States are located in Arizona. San Diego, San Francisco, San Jose, and even Los Angeles are now considered green cities, because of the aggressive means used in the past few years to institute green policies.
What are the Top 10 Green Cities in [...]

Eco-Friendly Plastic Bags

Eco-Friendly Plastic Bags

Back in the day when you went to the grocery store, you rarely got a plastic bag but instead the store gave you paper ones. So when people would get plastic bags, they would wash them out so they could reuse them. When the manufactures of the plastic bags lowered the cost, stores started giving them out as if they were free. This is where the plastic bag problem began. Today there are trillions of plastic bags lying in the dump that won’t decompose for hundreds of years. Another problem with plastic bags is that they’re made of polyethylene (an oil by product).

The Best Candy for a Green Halloween

The Best Candy for a Green Halloween

The usual suspects that land in trick-or-treater’s bags on Halloween aren’t eco-friendly and are far from healthy. So this year, why not give the ghouls, ghosts and goblins on your doorstep something green to taste. More and more options are available and affordable in the organic, fair trade and vegan varieties this year. Here are [...]

Three Green Ways to Stay Germ Free

With flu season on the horizon and H1N1 threatening to infect the masses, staying germ free is more important than ever. But you don’t need chemical soaps and sanitizers to do it. Many antibacterial products contain triclosan, a chemical that later enters our water ways and affects marine life–the chemical was found in dolphins earlier [...]

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 [...]

A Green Environment for Your New Baby

A Green Environment for Your New Baby

A new baby is a beautiful and indescribable blessing to any family. Months of anticipation lead up to an indescribable day for the family-in-waiting. Babies go from the warm, safe and very recognizable environment of mom’s womb to the outside world. Will the outside environment be as supportive as mom’s body?