One of the first places to look at “greening” your life is your home. There are easy ways to integrate a ‘reduce, reuse, and recycle’ philosophy into a home improvement project. Whether you are actively tackling a project and looking for a green approach, or just seeking ways to save water, electricity, and other resources,…
Whether you work a 9-to-5 job or stay at home taking care of your kids, keeping your family safe at home is one of your top priorities. Some tasks may seem like common sense, such as putting poisons well out of the reach of little hands. However, there may be other safety ideas you’ve never…
Conserving energy is one of the top ways to not only do your part to save the planet, but also to save money. The U.S. Department of Energy further explains: “Today’s buildings consume more energy than any other sector of the U.S. economy, including transportation and industry.” While this is an astounding fact, there is…
Plastic shopping bags are a plague on our planet. Everywhere we turn, we’re offered yet another disposable plastic bag, and for the most part, they end up going home with us, where we then need to deal with them. And the numbers are staggering: An estimated 102 billion plastic bags were used in 2009 in…
When people ask me what feng shui is, I usually tell them it is consciously creating an environment that energetically supports rather than drains the individual. These days we give energy to so much in our lives (work, family, pets, worries, friends in distress, etc.) that it makes sense to invest some effort into creating…
The man cave is widely known as the space where men can retreat, either alone or with friends, to watch a football game, smoke cigars and play cards, or trash talk around the pool table. Although the space by its very name sounds like a place where spouses and children aren’t welcome, that doesn’t have…
[By Noah Horowitz, NRDC] Come January 1st, a new light bulb standard goes into effect that gradually phase out the 125-year-old inefficient incandescent bulbs. The old 100W bulb as we used to know it will go away in 2012 and be replaced by more efficient incandescent bulbs as well as other energy saving bulbs such…
Natural Papa recently ran a post breaking down the nutritional facts of some of the most popular soda and fruit drinks. Many of us succumb to the bad habit of drinking soda to get a sugar fix, or simply to wake up during a long day at the office. If you are someone who just…
Feng shui, a word that still has people guessing as to the correct pronunciation, has practically become a household word. What is it? It is simply a body of knowledge that can be used as a tool to “manage” the energies of your environment. By consciously placing yourself within your environment to your best possible…
Green Goes Simple: Conservation at Home By Marisa Belger for Green Goes Simple The jars came first. Instead of sending my growing collection of empty glass receptacles to their usual fate at the bottom of the recycle bin, I did something unexpected — something wild. I peeled off their labels and plopped them in the…
I received an email from a reader, asking how to best protect a home from burglary using feng shui. He shared that in the past three months, 163 burglaries of homes and cars has occurred in a two-mile radius in his neighborhood. This is an excellent question! Let’s look at how one can best energetically…
