Canning Your Organic Garden
Each year I enjoy the discovery and the ever changing garden-scape. But the icing on the cake is good wholesome food right from my backyard. For example, my neighbor gave me scores of carrot seedlings which I transplanted in the garden. And I planted a package of sugar snap peas. Later in the spring we [...]
Green Choice Awards For Environmental Nonprofits
About the 2009 Green Choice Awards
The awards were hosted by GreatNonprofits, the leading provider of user-generated ratings and reviews of nonprofits. Reviews appear on both GreatNonprofits.org as well as GuideStar.org, the premiere source for donor research on nonprofits. Nonprofits with the most positive reviews in their budget category are determined the winners of the 2009 Green Choice Awards.[...]
HGTV Green Home
The new 2009 Home and Garden TV (HGTV) Green Home has been built. The Green Home has many eco-friendly and green features from a Green “Living” Roof to Energy Star appliances. You can enter to win this home right here on our Green Earth Friend Weblog or go directly to HGTV Green Home Sweepstakes. [...]
Give A Little Green On Earth Day And Beyond
Happy Earth Day to our readers from the Green Earth Friend team!
We wanted to share with our readers a special green campaign, introduced to us by Julia Barmeier, who works for GlobalGiving, an online marketplace for philanthropy that connects donors directly to international grassroots development projects.
She reads this blog and thought our readers might be interested in a [...]
Earth Day Contest
As Earth Month kicks off, a nonprofit group called GreatNonprofits has launched their 2009 Green Choice Awards in an effort to identify the best organizations working towards environmental sustainability. The focus of GreatNonprofits and their Website is to offer a way for everyday people to review their experiences with nonprofit groups — similar to resources like [...]
Amazon Forest Shrinking Due To Global Warming
A new study of the Amazon Rain Forest carried out by scientists at the University of East Anglia in Norwich, England, has determined that any rise in temperature in the Amazon area could kill off 85 % of the plant life. Tim Lenton, a climate expert for the University, says that when he was young, he thought [...]























