Going Green Advice; Ditch the Candles
If I could impart one bit of going green advice that is easy to implement it’s getting rid of the candles in your home. One of the worst things you could be doing to degrade the quality of the air in your home is to burn traditional candles. The lead given off by candles is [...]
March 28, 2010
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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
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Going Green Advice, Get Rid of the Chemicals in Your Home!
Do you really have a home that is safe for not only your family and pets, but also for the environment? If you haven’t made the switch to natural cleaning products, you are putting your children, pets and the environment in danger. Every day you are bombarded with television advertisements for the latest and greatest [...]
March 8, 2010
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Going Green Products Are da Bomb!
Becoming a green fanatic is not an easy task. Being totally committed to the environment takes a lot of forethought to be sure you are doing everything in an environmentally friendly way. Â It involves completely re-thinking your whole way of life and means giving up your current lifestyle and can involve a lot of expense [...]
February 23, 2010
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10 Things You Should Never Buy
In order to go green you need to make some changes in your lifestyle. Purchasing products that have a clearly negative impact on the environment should be avoided.  The top 10 products to avoid are: 1. Styrofoam and plastic wrap 2. Bleached coffee filters 3. Products that use excessive packaging 4. Any beauty product containing [...]
February 7, 2010
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Is There Junk in/on Your Trunk?
What many people don’t think about is the fact that added weight in a car such as junk in the trunk, cuts down on fuel consumption. It has been estimated that every hundred pounds of weight in an automobile cuts down on fuel MPG by as much as 2 %. Years ago, cars were monstrous. [...]
January 16, 2010
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Grab The Tiger By The Tail
In doing my research for this blog, I decided to encourage my readers to make “going green” a New Years Resolution. Since animals are so important to ancient cultures and often hold hidden meanings, I decided to check to see what animal represents this year in the Chinese New Year. As it turns out it [...]
January 9, 2010
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Happy Green New Year
Well now that the holidays are over and we are settling down to our old routines, it’s time to think about our New Year Resolutions. Forget the usuals like dieting and exercise, lets come up with some resolutions with some teeth. Let this be the year of the GREEN! There are literally thousands of tips [...]
January 6, 2010
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Using Plants to Improve Air Quality
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been studying air quality for a long time and is in agreement that the air in our homes is 5-10 more polluted than the air outside. These findings coincide with the discovery of a core of symptoms experienced by individuals who are in homes and office buildings with poor [...]
December 30, 2009
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Toxic Cleaners in Your Bathroom
If you are interested in “going green”, one great place to start is the bathroom. Many of the cleaners we use are toxic by themselves, but combining them can be deadly. Most people know enough not to combine bleach with ammonia, but few people are aware that toilet bowl cleaners often contain bleach and the [...]
December 16, 2009
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