If you have already made the conscious choice to be eco-friendly and enjoy the benefits of natural living, it’s hard not to have the itch to help share your interest in the environment with your friends and family. To “convert” someone to the mindset of going green, here are a few things you’ll want to keep… Read more:
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Greenest Vehicle on the Block: Why the Guy with the Mini-Van Rules
If you’re interested in saving on fuel costs, you have a lot of vehicle options from which to choose. Hybrid-electric, flex fuel, ultra-compact vehicles and even motorcycles can lower your fuel consumption and save you money. But there’s another green vehicle option you may have overlooked: the mini-van. If used the right way, the mini-van… Read more:
8 Green Home Changes that Look Great Too
One of the complaints often voiced about going green at home is that many green changes are simply aesthetically dull; others are atrocious. It’s not so much that we value aesthetics over the future of the planet, but every change we make to our home comes at a price, and we factor in many different… Read more:
Green Home Repair Projects to Save You Money
A few good excuses to break out the toolbox If you’re looking for a fun project to build your handyman chops, we’ve rounded up a few of the best green DIY projects that can make your home more sustainable. None of these projects cost more than $50, none will take more than a few hours,… Read more:
Go Green Tips for Techies
4 eco-friendly practices for the gadget obsessed Want to go beyond the basics of reduce, reuse, recycle to make your workplace more environmentally friendly? There are several new technologies that can help reduce energy use and wasteful practices. As a tech-obsessed person, I always felt a little badly about using excess electricity to power all… Read more:
Top Apps for a Green Dad
Your smartphone can help you live better and save money With the right apps, your smartphone can be a powerful tool to help your family live more responsibly. Make the most of your data plan, and check out these apps for Android and iOS.… Read more:
Raising Green Teens
Save money and raise responsible kids with these tips To advertisers, teenagers look like a big fat bullseye – they’re less careful about their consumption, more responsive to marketing messages, and have a higher percentage of disposable income than almost any other group. Without guidance, teenagers are easily persuaded to adopt wasteful habits that are… Read more:
Wrap it in a Greensleeve, the Zero Waste, Zero Plastic iPad Case
As the relatively new owner of an iPad, I’ve grown to love a number of things about it, such as the easy-to-use interface, the amazing screen quality, the thousands of free and cheap apps, and the light weight and thin size of it. But the very thing that makes it unique – the tablet and… Read more:
5 Home Improvement Tips to Greenify Your Home
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,… Read more:
Going Green: Kids Edition
If you’ve tried to make the switch from throwing anything and everything in the trash can to leading a greener lifestyle by recycling, composting, and overall living more sustainably while actively decreasing your carbon footprint, then you know that it can be hard to really ingrain those habits. It’s much easier to embrace habits that… Read more:
Why I Don’t Want to Talk About the Environment
Every time another guy asks me, “So, what do you do?” the conversation plays out in the same way. I tell him I’m a writer, and he asks, “Oh, what have you written? Who’s your publisher?” When I say, “I’m my own publisher. I’m a blogger,” you can see the look on his face change… Read more: