A series of eco-friendly tips, tricks, ideas, and how-tos to help you create a green home and a green living space for you and your family.
From native landscaping to tips on how to improve the air quality inside your home, this series of articles is dedicated to helping you create a more environmentally friendly household to improve your daily lives and reduce your carbon footprint.
This ever-growing collection of articles is designed to provide insights and inspiration, from large scale upgrades to help save on your electricity bills to small steps you can take to make the world a greener place.
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More than simply adding a splash of living decor to your home, some air purifying plants can actually make your air healthier to breathe. Houseplants add a lovely touch of living decor to any room, but did you know that many popular & easy to care for houseplants also have air purifying properties? It’s not …
Native landscaping takes inspiration from the plants that are all around you and helps you create a garden that is natural, low maintenance, and hardy. Landscaping should be a thoughtful process––one that doesn’t just focus on aesthetics, but also in choosing the right plants for the environment in ways that they will also be able …
I like the idea of composting. It’s environmentally friendly, it provides added nutrients for my soil, and it helps keep garbage out of the landfills. But, let’s face it, most Outdoor Composters are ugly. You’ve probably seen them, those plain black outdoor compost bins that are supposed to be placed in the yard to create …
I love all things coffee. Not in a coffee snob kind of way, but in a “I can’t start my day without a cup (or two) of coffee.” But when that coffee is done there are 14 different ways you can use your coffee grounds for your garden to give them a second life. Not …
As homeowners, we are often looking for ways to add Eco Friendly tools, tricks, and tips to help create a green home that is good for the environment and good for the world around us. In this series of articles, we focus on ways to improve the Eco friendly footprint of your house, saving energy …
Everyone wants a clean home. But using harsh chemicals to create a “clean” environment can often be counter-productive, adding more toxins to the air and the surfaces of your home. Instead, we offer these green home cleaning tips to give you a clean and green home. Green Cleaning Tips Green home cleaning includes a variety …
One should never take for granted the air that we breathe. That’s one of the reasons why indoor air quality is so important to our day-to-day lives. Although you may close the door on the outside world when you get home, air pollution is not limited to the outdoors. Dust, pollen, moisture, odors, gases, and …
Sometimes, electricity feels like magic. You turn on a light switch and – poof – the light turns on. But it isn’t magic, and wasting electricity is in no ways magical. That’s why I’ve pulled together a few energy saving tips to help you save electricity in your home. These tips range from free, to …
While creating a series of articles on Eco-Friendly living, I became intrigued by the idea of Indoor Composters that are used to “recycle” your kitchen scraps and turn them into nutrient-rich fertilizer. I’ve tried outdoor composters in the past, with limited positive results and some very negative results (including undesirable wildlife). The idea of an …