A Pitch for Native Plants

One of the best ways to help the environment when it comes to your garden and landscaping is to use native plants.  Home owners are always looking for ways to beautify their landscaping, and are looking for plants and trees that are aesthetically pleasing. Not everyone has the same idea as to what a backyard or [...]

July 4, 2010  Tags: , , , , , ,   Posted in: Green Gardening, going green tips  One Comment

Clean With Spaghetti???

The original Spaghetti Scrub is a natural-fiber cleaning scrubber that is tough on your kitchen messes, but gentle on the environment. An eco-friendly product, the Spaghetti Scrub is made with corn cob, a tough abrasive that has incredible cleaning power. Use on grills, metal cookware, kettles, sinks-you’ll find endless uses around the home. The unique [...]

June 10, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: going green products  One Comment

Save Gas; Save Money With New Green Product

For years there has been a product in use that has proven to improve an engine’s horsepower and fuel economy.  But up until now this product  has not been available to the general public.  All that has changed!  A new product called Envirotabs is now available to the general public. This product ist is being [...]

March 30, 2010  Tags: , , , , ,   Posted in: going green products  No Comments

Get Off Your Butt and Lower the Thermostat

Most people don’t realize that the dial on their thermostat controls more than the temperature, it theoretically controls a household’s income and certainly impacts the environmental aspects of the home. We have all been hearing for a while now that we should lower the temperature on the thermostat in the winter, but can changing that [...]

March 12, 2010  Tags: , , ,   Posted in: going green tips  No Comments

Redesigning The American Lawn

Book Review: Redesigning the American Lawn by F. Herbert Bormann, Diana Balmori, Gordon T Geballe and Lisa Vernegaard Here in the United States, one of the most polluting things many homeowners are guilty of is the way they take care of their lawns.  Millions upon millions of acres of lawn are being subjected to all [...]

January 24, 2010  Tags: , , , , , , ,   Posted in: Green Gardening  One Comment

Miss America 2010 Is Green

No, Miss America2010 isn’t going to be an alien, she just better have some good answers when she is asked what  going green means to her.  Seems as though the TV host Green T, AKA Tamara Henry interviewed the 53 contestants “about what “going green” means to them.  The winner of the “Green is Gorgeous” [...]

January 21, 2010  Tags: , , , ,   Posted in: Environmental Causes  One Comment