All Entries in the "Green Living" Category
Freecycle: Finding Treasures In Recycling
Freecycle is a network of users that want to recycle things they no longer need or want but do not want to place it in the garbage or have a yard sale. Freecycle works by email.[...]
Gardening Old Farm Land For Sustainability
Your suburban home is probably sitting on old farm land, an old orchard site or a once productive forest.
Here in the United States we are loosing nearly 3,000 acres a day and many times the land lost is some of the most fertile land we have for growing food.[...]
Suburban Hedge Garden: An Environmentally Sustainable Option
Since most of us do not have a forest or an estate in the country, a Suburban Hedge Garden provides many of us with an environmentally sustainable option, to maximize the capabilities of our suburban property, to provide food and shelter for wildlife, food for the table and even sequester a bit of carbon from the atmosphere for centuries [...]
Obama Moves To Cap Automobile Emissions And Set Fuel-Efficiency Standards
Today is a day that will go down in history, as the day that President Barack Obama reversed former President Bush’s policies on emission control and approved an application by California, Washington and 12 other states to set strict automobile [...]
Green Inauguration For President Barack Obama
Today marks the greenest inauguration in history. The 44th President of the United States of America, Barack Obama, will take office today. Food and drinks at the event will be organic. Vegans will be fully taken care of and all the garbage from the event will be recycled and composted. That should [...]
Greenest Museum In The World
The California Academy Of Sciences in Golden Gate Park , San Francisco, is one of the greenest buildings in the world. The roof contains over a million different species of plant life. The green roof insulates the building, keeping it warm in the winter and cool in the summer. When it rains, the roof absorbs the water, bringing [...]
Bad Economy Puts Recycling In The Red!
Unfortunately, due to the economy, people in the United States are not buying as much, which affects recycling in a big way. It used to be that we would accept shipments from China and we would load up the ships returning to China with our recycled [...]
Green Savings: Living Off The Grid
Going Green does not have to be a costly experience. There are ways to live off the grid and still have Green Savings. Initial costs of getting set up to run your home or vehicle can be kind of costly, however in the long run you will have plenty of Green Savings.
There are people who live off the grid [...]
The Green Benefit Of Skylights In Your Home
We are always looking for ways to be more green in our homes and businesses. On way is to think of ways to light your home or business in both a sustainable and economical way. You would be surprised with the benefits of installing skylights in your home or business.
If you installed 3 or 4 skylights [...]
Green Collar Jobs
The demand for Green collar workers, to fill Green Jobs, will dramatically increase in the near future. This is happening because of policies and programs that are being passed to improve environmental quality and a move to renewable energy sources. Included are zero waste policies, energy and water conservation, whole home performance and residential solar energy. [...]
