Archive for the ‘Going Green’ Category

A Kids Point Of View For Being “Green”

My 11 year old granddaughter is visiting this summer.  As with most kids today, she loves the computer and knows more about it than I do.  She offered to help me with my website, so I asked her to be a guest author of my blog.  Below are her thoughts about being green. “I think [...]

August 15, 2010  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Going Green  No Comments

The Other Side of Green Living

Some green humor to start off your day. A Green Lady

August 3, 2010   Posted in: Going Green, Green Gardening  One Comment

Yikes! There’s a New Product in Town

According to the Kleenex website “People in the U.S. dry their hands on cloth bathroom towels approximately 200 billion times a year.” So what is their solution? A brand new product on the market called Kleenex Hand Towels.  The result.  200 billion more pieces of paper in our landfills, and an untold number of trees [...]

July 25, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Going Green, going green products  No Comments

Eco-Friendly Cooking

One of my projects for this summer is to build a solar oven.  Living in Florida, I have access to one heck of a lot of sunshine.  With the cost of electricity rising, and the summers getting warmer, it only makes sense.   I saw a demonstration of one at a green expo recently and realized [...]

July 17, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: Going Green, going green tips  No Comments

Looking For Work?

With the economy tanking these days, more and more people are finding themselves out of a job or with a job on an extremely shaky foundation.   One area of the job market that seems to be doing well is the green sector. As the government dumps money into the green stimulus package, more and more [...]

July 10, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: Going Green, going green products, going green tips  One Comment

End Junk Mail For Good

Recycling is one of the easiest ways to go green and one of the few ways to save the planet that nearly everyone does.  How would you like to make your recycling life even easier  and help non-profit organizations at the same time? Several years ago, a website called 41 Pounds was started and has [...]

July 10, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: Going Green, going green tips  2 Comments

A Green Death

As the world is becoming more attuned to the idea of going green, more and more areas where you can go green are being “discovered”. For those truly green individuals a traditional westernized burial may not fit into their idea of how they want to leave this planet.  Traditional preparation of a body after death [...]

July 8, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Going Green  No Comments

Going Green With Furniture

That soft comfy couch that many of us spend far too much time lying on can be a hazard to your health in a couple of ways.  First off, this generation of  people spend far too much time being “couch potatoes”.  In the days before television, people spent a whole lot more time outside and [...]

June 17, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Going Green, going green products, going green tips  No Comments

Go Green Jewelery

There are literally thousands of ways to go green and many of them are in areas that we would never even think to go green.  Case in point, buying jewelery. You wouldn’t necessarily think of going green when you buy jewelery but a recent news release by the  San Diego Jewelry Buyers (SDJB) offers  some [...]

May 25, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Going Green, going green products, going green tips  2 Comments

There is a Vampire Loose in YOUR Home!

Visit http://www.vampirepowersucks.com/default.aspx for an interesting website about Vampire power and how you can eliminate or reduce it’s effects in your home.  Every time you leave an appliance or piece of electronic equipment plugged in you are wasting energy.  Visit this website to learn more on how to save energy. Visit http://agreenlady.com to learn more about [...]

April 24, 2010  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Going Green, going green tips  One Comment