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7 Easy Eco-Friendly Tips for Spring
Ah, spring. There’s something so exciting about seeing the first buds and little green shoots appear after a long, dormant winter. It’s time to get outside and enjoy the fabulous weather, get gardening, deep-clean your home and give your body a d...
Carbon Offsets: What Are They & How Can You Use Them?
It’s easy to understand why the subject of carbon offsets is still such a confusing one for so many people. Is it buying air? Why does it seem like some people (especially celebrities) get away with doing so many environmentally unfriendly things o...
The Vegetarianism Debate: Eating Meat Isn’t Green (Or Is It?)
I’ve heard it said many times that you can’t be an environmentalist and still eat meat. Vegetarianism remains a big debate in the green world, and it’s one that gets people on both sides of the aisle extremely fired up. Vegetarians have facts a...
Sustainable Fitness - A Goal You Can Feel Good About!
The buzz-word sustainability refers to maintaining balance in ecological, social and economic systems by regenerating resources. Sustainable fitness means maintaining our health through the rejuvenating benefits of exercise. It also means a lifetime ...
Fun, Safe Eco-Friendly Holiday Gifts for Kids
Finding safe and healthy toys for kids is more difficult than it should be. It’s sad that you can’t just walk into any toy store across America and expect that the products on the shelf are free of dangerous contaminants like lead. But, as we’v...
Measure Your Eco-Progress by What You’ve Achieved, Not What’s Left to Do
We’ve all got ‘em – no matter how long we’ve been working to green up our lives. Eco sins, that is. Even Ed Begley Jr., the Hollywood actor and environmentalist who’s been riding his bike to star-studded events for decades, admits that heâ€...
6 Harsh, Toxic Cosmetics Ingredients to Avoid
When you’re perusing products in the beauty aisle, you might have a difficult time telling which ones are truly safe and natural and which ones aren’t. After all, companies jumping on the eco-beauty bandwagon are marketing products this way even ...
Keep Your Home Sparkling Clean the Eco-Friendly Way
Think you need a huge, expensive arsenal of fancy green cleaning products to keep your home in order minus the chemicals? You’re in for a pleasant surprise! Cleaning your home doesn’t have to involve the sorts of nasty, harsh, headache-inducing i...
Have a Green Halloween with These 5 Tips
Like many holidays, Halloween is certainly all about conspicuous consumption. The throwaway costumes, the décor, and of course all those candy wrappers – most of it is destined for the dumpster, and few people consider whether what they’re buyin...
Top 5 Ways to Green Up Your Professional Life
As we work toward making all aspects of our lives more environmentally responsible, one area many people save for last is our work lives. If you work for someone else and they’re not into being ‘green’, you might feel like you don’t have a l...
Eco-Friendly Travel: Be Green Without Sacrificing Style and Fun
Quick, convenient travel is a modern way of life. Unfortunately, it also produces unbelievable amounts of pollution – smog and carbon from motor vehicles and airplanes, and trash from all those disposables you use while on the road. But, it is po...
8 Cheap, Easy Energy Savings Tips You Can Start Using Today
Keeping an eye on your energy use isn’t just the green thing to do – it’ll save you money, too, and who doesn’t love that? We’ve all heard about switching from incandescent bulbs to compact fluorescents, which last longer and use much less ...
Beautify Your Home with Stylish, Earth Friendly Décor
So, you’re interested in ‘going green’, and you’d like to bring that environmentally responsible way of thinking into your home – but you don’t want a bamboo and rattan old-school-Pier-1 decorating scheme. Thankfully, not all earth-frien...
10 Tips to Throw an Eco-Chic Party
Fall is here, and you know what that means – parties galore! Whether you’re planning a holiday party or an intimate dinner gathering, conventional party supplies are definitely a bit of a drain on the earth. Parties generate tons of waste – th...
5 Easy First Steps Toward an Eco-Friendly Home Makeover!
No doubt you’ve heard the buzz: the term ‘eco-friendly’ seems to be everywhere these days. We can apply this idea of living a more environmentally responsible life in so many ways, but one of the best ways to get off on the right foot is to st...
Is Bamboo Fabric as Green as They Say?
As consumer demand for eco-friendly fabrics rises ever higher, one particular natural fiber has been celebrated as soft, luxurious, elegant, strong and sustainable. Of course, we’re talking about bamboo, the grass that grows rampant all over many ...
Eco Luxury – Can the Two Actually Work Together?
Who says you can’t have beautiful, high quality, luxurious things and still be eco-fabulous? While some people might equate eco-friendliness with materials that are boring, scratchy and unattractive, much of today’s green gear – from clothing t...
The Big Book of Green Resources
You know…we are all about sharing the eco love and making it count. So, in that same line of thinking, here are a bunch (and I mean, A BUNCH) of cool green, eco-friendly resources. It’s not a complete list of every resource available out...
Green Living @ Work - Four Fabulous Quick and Easy Tips
Ok, it’s one thing to move toward living a more eco friendly lifestyle at home but it’s a whole new ballgame when it comes to work. Here are a few quick tips that can get you and your office off to an excellent start. Telecommute! Yep, t...
Your Monday Green Living Tips
Yes, It’s Monday. I know, I know…everyone’s most favorite day of the week. Here are a few tips to get your week off to a roaringly green start. Shift your appliance use to off-peak hours - typically 9 pm - 7 am. Your utility comp...
Shopping for Eco Friendly Furniture? Here’s What You Need to Know
When you shop for furniture, do you pay close attention to exactly what you’re bringing into your home? Most people have no idea that much of the furniture they use every day is releasing harmful gases into the air they breathe, is made of non...
Simple Steps to Improve the Air Quality in Your Home
Did you know that your carpeting, interior paint, bedding, and even wood furniture might be releasing harmful gases into your home? Add dirty air filters, chemical-laden cleaning products and cigarette smoke and your home can become quite a toxic e...
7 Household Upgrades Prove Going Green Isn’t Hard or Pricey
Ok so in an effort to bring you all things green, we thought you might find this of interest. Be sure to check out number 7 in the list…LOVE IT! You don’t need to run off and live in the woods to be green. We’ve got some hot tech f...
What is Organic Skin Care?
“What is organic skin care and why do we need to use it?” are questions every woman should ask herself. In our quest to bring you the most up to date information about everything eco, we thought this was worth sharing… Author: Loui...
Eco is Fun - Tips and Tidbits From Around the Web
Eco is just plain fun. Really. It is. I love that everywhere you turn eco, green living, organic, sustainable and other such catchphrases are being tossed about like Mamma Luci’s home made spaghetti. LOVE IT, I tell you! Here are a few quick r...
Five Quick and FREE ways to Go Green
Using your eco sensibilities is key here. These are quick, tried and true EASY to do things that can get you started on the road to eco friendliness and who knows…you might just make a few friends along the way! Think before you toss. You̵...
