Archive for September, 2009

Tips on Getting Your Children Involved In Your Earth-Friendly Lifestyle

There are many tips on getting your children involved in your earth-friendly lifestyle.  If you are in the process of going “green”, it is important to know and understand that this is a lifestyle choice, a way of living that should involve every member of your family.  Children of all ages can get in on the “green” epidemic by learning how to live in a manner that is healthy, and rewarding to themselves, as well as the environment.  The secret is to ensure that your children enjoy what they are doing, and have fun doing it.  If you make it resemble a “chore”, then they will likely lack interest.  However, if you make it a fun task with a lot of initiative, then they will be excited about it!  Here, you will be introduced to tips on getting your children involved in your earth-friendly lifestyle. Water While the earth is composed of 75% water, we are unable to use all of the water resources in the world.  There are many water resources available for our use when it comes to cooking, cleaning, hygiene, and drinking, but even those are limited.  It is important to teach your children that water is the single ...

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Travelling the Green Highway

If you’re going to be taking a trip across this beautiful country of ours, there are several things you can do to make your travel as green as possible. The first thing to do is take your car in for a thorough inspection, to make sure it will be able to safely make the trip you want to make. Have the oil changed, all fluids topped off, and so on.  Don’t just look at your tires with a critical eye and decide that they’re fine – check them with a tire gauge and be absolutely sure.  And if they’re the least bit under inflated, top them off as well. Quite simply, under inflated tires waste gasoline.  And by extension, money. The faster you go in your car, the more gasoline you burn.  This can be a trade off.  The faster you go, the sooner you arrive at your destination, and the more time you have to spend on vacation.  But really, how much time do you save?  A couple of hours? It’s certainly hard to be the only car on the road going 60 when everyone and their brother is passing you going 70, but in the long run it saves on money and ...

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Enough To Make You Turn Vegetarian

In doing some research on the differences between ethanol made from corn and ethanol made from sugarcane, I came across the following sentence: “Cows are flatulent because they are fed corn, which they do not normally eat.” That set me off on another search, to find out if this was actually true. As Dr. Doolittle says, “I love red-blooded juicy chunks of meat.  Legs of lamb.  Sides of beef and chops and steaks and veal.  And pork of course, my favorite meal.”  But that’s before I found out how this food is “grown.” I hadn’t devoted much thought to how livestock is raised for the dinner table, I confess, and I always thought what PETA was concerned with was the manner in which they were killed…not the manner in which they were raised. Of course, I got some inkling a few years ago; when it was revealed that some farmers fed their cows on the remains of “downer cows” – i.e. turning the cows into unwitting cannibals.  Well, it turns out they feed them on a lot more than that. There was an article in the Feb/March 2008 issue of Mother Earth News that ...

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The “Green” Solution to Cleaning Supplies: Make Your Own!

Many individuals are starting to seek out the “Green” solution to cleaning supplies.  The best way to make a positive contribution to the environment is to make your own cleaning supplies!  It has been found that indoor air quality in many homes has an extremely high level of pollutants.  Many homes have up to one hundred times more pollution than that of outdoor air!  When you consider the emissions from vehicles, and industrial plants outdoors, this is an immense statistical figure!  When indoor pollution was researched, an amazing discovery was found: all of those chemicals that we use to actually clean our homes are making them dirtier!  If you are looking for a “Green” solution to cleaning supplies, in this guide, we will share with you how making your own can be the answer that you seek! Laundry Detergent If you are looking to make your own laundry detergent, there are actually many effective ingredients that can be located in the home in order to create products that will assist in cleaning clothes.  The following represents some outstanding solutions to laundry issues that the basic person faces: Environmentally Friendly Stain Remover For all of those tough stains in clothing that you wish to remove ...

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What is Happening With Your Water?

Many people don’t trust the water that comes out of their taps, so they decide it will be safer if they only drink bottled water, instead.  Unfortunately, many people don’t realize that bottled water is not that great for the environment, and may not be healthy for you, either.  Sure, plastic can be recycled, but within that plastic is a little chemical called bisphenol A (BPA), that leaches out if the bottle becomes hot (as, for example, if you’re going out biking in 90 degree weather for a significant length of time). And, the ironic thing of course is that the water in most of these bottles doesn’t come from fresh mountain streams, but from the same water supply you’re drinking from.  (Of course, it probably isn’t being siphoned through decades-old pipes and picking up contaminants that way, which is what bottled water drinkers are worried about when it comes to their tap water.) The solution is to simply install a purifier on your tap, or your refrigerator, should it have that function.  (Indeed, fridges that have receptacles for getting cold water and ice without having to open the fridge door are great energy savers!) But my question is this.  Do you know, ...

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