Green Living Tips

How To Transition Your Home Off Oil

Chelsea Green | Stephen and Rebekah Hren | Posted 09.11.2008 | Green


Puttering around your own home, you may think the possibility of freeing it from fossil fuels to be somewhat remote. As our culture has progressed dow...

10 Creative Ways To Reuse Your Junk Mail

Huffington Post | Posted 09.08.2008 | Green


100 billion pieces of junk mail are sent annually, which accounts for one-third of all United States mail. According to Treehugger, Americans spend ov...

Slow Food Movement: How To Eat "Slowly"

Huffington Post | Posted 09.08.2008 | Green


With 85,000 members in 132 countries according to its website, Slow Food International is a grassroots project created in response to the fast food mo...

10 Facts On United States Energy Use

Chelsea Green | Jon Clift and Amanda Cuthbert | Posted 09.07.2008 | Green


The days of cheap oil energy have come to an end. What once was simple and cheap (i.e. driving to vacation) has become difficult and expensive (i.e. ....

5 Technologies That Improve Internal Combustion Engines

TreeHugger.com | Posted 09.06.2008 | Green


5 Fuel-Saving Technologies In the long run, the internal combustion engine (ICE) is on the way out and electric motors are on the way in, but ICEs hav...

Reduce Energy Use At Home: How To Easily Cut Back

Huffington Post | Posted 08.13.2008 | Green


There sure is a lot of energy being spent on the energy debate lately. Sometimes it's best to hone in on what you can do, personally, at home, before ...

How To Green Your Grocery List

Grist | Posted 08.13.2008 | Green


It can be hard to focus on eating greener when the very staples you need cost more than usual. Fortunately, there's a veritable cornucopia of ways to ...

Carbon Savings at Home -- A Little Can Go a Long Way

Bill Chameides | Posted 07.27.2008 | Green


Bill Chameides

You do have some control over your carbon footprint -- maybe more than you think. Let's look at how choices at home, on the road, and at the store can fight global warming.

From New Composter to Poo Composter: A Green Garbage Guide

J.S. McDougall | Posted 07.08.2008 | Green


J.S. McDougall

There are a bewildering amount of different composting systems and bins available on the market. Here's some help to choose which bin or system suits your lifestyle, your family, your house, or apartment.

Ideal Bite Green Tip Of The Week: Drink Locally!

Ideal Bite | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


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Ideal Bite Green Tip of The Week: Don't Flush Condoms

Ideal Bite | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


Ideal Bite

The Bite: With the trash bin right there, you'll be less tempted to flush the condom. Throwing condoms in the trash when sexy-time's over is the be...

Ideal Bite Green Tip of The Week: Be Like Martha - Cloth Napkins

Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


Click here to sign up for a daily Ideal Bite tip. The Bite: Use cloth napkins religiously. You'll save trees and add a touch of class to your tabl...

How To Island Hop Without Hurting The Islands

Times | Brian Schofield | Posted 03.28.2008 | Living


The very characteristics that make islands so easy to love also make them far too easy to love to death. Unique, isolated cultures are far from resili...