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Gardening Nude is an inspirational blog built by Shawna Coronado to encourage greening and community improvement. It's ideas and lessons are simple; improving health, lifestyle greening, and building community will enable readers to live well and hap
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Get Yo Green On Tuesday Food Waste Is A Serious Problem Do Something About It At Home
This is what I saw several weeks ago when I went to clean up breakfast. Wasted food. I am sure you are wondering why six or seven bites of bread crumbs really makes a difference, right? It makes a difference......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday An Indoor Bokashi Meat and Milk Composter Review
Clean Air Gardening sells this cool Indoor Kitchen Composter which composts more than traditional veg material, it also composts meat and milk. While I have practiced outdoor composting for several years, I have never done indoor composting and was c...
Monday Whazzup I Have A Bright Idea - Use A CFL - Save Money and Energy!
This fabulously glowing light bulb lives in my bedroom. It’s strength is powerful enough to light my whole room, yet this light bulb saves almost $30 over its lifetime and pays for itself in about six months. Also, it uses......
Six Tips to Save Money and Conserve Water
Saving money is especially important in these difficult economic times. Below is a short video demonstrating six easy and simple tips to conserve water – and money - at home. Every year Americans waste hundreds of gallons of water both......
How To Plant A GREEN and Water Conserving Flowerpot or Container Garden
Every year millions of people plant flowerpots. Although beautiful, one problem with flowerpots is that you sometimes have to water the pots every day, particularly during the hot summer months. My secret for potting plants insures you do not have......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday Native Plants Conserve Water
According to Jim Kleinwachter, a good friend who runs the “Conservation @ Home” program through The Conservation Foundation, native plants are the only way to go. Judging by the gorgeous photos seen here of native Bluebells and other flowers in.....
Me Thinks I Need A New Royal Water Saving Throne Cause My Toilet Stinks!
My toilet stinks! Although it’s shiny white porcelain glow, unique design, and lovely matching accessories made it a fashionable find, the real reason my husband and I bought the very special Crane Plumbing toilet from Menard’s was because of its...
The Great Coffee Cup Challenge
Here’s the coffee cup truth – our landfills are filling up with disposable coffee cups. According to the Sustainability Is Sexy website, Americans use approximately 16 billion disposable coffee cups per year. In 2006 alone, Starbucks used 2.3 bil...
GREEN AND SIMPLE TIP: Harry the Pug says, Wash Your Laundry In Cold Water!
Harry the Pug says, “Wash your laundry in cold water!” What a great tip to conserve energy. That’s just the beginning of how you can save energy AND MONEY when doing laundry. Front-loading washing machines use 40% less water than......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday Composting Kit And A Way To Save Kitchen Scraps From The Landfill
One of the greenest things you can do is save anything you can from a landfill. Food scraps are particularly difficult for landfills to deal with because when the scraps “melt” into mush they turn into a toxic bacterial soup......
Monday Whazzup Learn About The Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Today I bring to your attention someone absolutely incredible – Captain Charles Moore - who has discovered and is tracking a horrific, devastating environmental issue of such grand proportion it dwarfs most states in size, and indeed, is as large.....
Evil Lurks Where You Least Expect It - The Danger of Six Pack Rings And How You And Your Family Can Make A Difference
Danger lurks where we least expect it in life. Even Darth Vader would be surprised that the danger I am discussing today is not from “the dark force” or giant industrial conglomerates. This danger comes from the simple six-pack ring......
Monday Whazzup 2009 Chicago Flower Garden Show is More Sustainable!
Saturday I got lucky and nude. Well… metaphorically. As a member of the Garden Writers Association, I was allowed to go to the 2009 Chicago Flower & Garden Show as a preview reporter. This was a wonderful experience as I......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday Teach Children To Shop With the Brilliant, Amazing, and Beautiful Reusable Bag
Last week I wrote about my experience with Borders – that I was overjoyed about their new “no bag unless requested” policy. Why? Plastic bags are made from ethylene, a petroleum byproduct. In the United States, approximately 12 million barrels....
Gardening Nude Naked Winner of the Week: Organic Farmers Janet Brown and Marty Jacobson Co-founders of All Star Organic Farm
On most Friday's, Gardening Nude The Blog features a special person or organization for the day. This person or org is the "Naked Winner of the Week." All people featured in this category are winners for doing great things for......
Garlic Mustard A Sustainability Disaster in Our Environment By Guest Writer Susan Harris
Today’s blog focuses on a serious disaster happening across the United States and Canada – the devastation of our forest floors by a plant known as “Garlic Mustard.” It is horribly invasive. Being green means stewardship – to the land......
How Now Green Cow - Simple Solutions for Our Green Waste Issues
Guest blogger Daniel Shellenberg writes the awesome farmer-goes-green blog known as "AGroGuru" - a great blog focusing on how greening impacts the agriculture community. Today he is my guest blogger and brings interesting insight into how we might fi...
Learn How and Why Your Stuff Ends Up In The Landfill: The Story of Stuff
This week I was sent by a friend to view a powerful online movie called "The Story of Stuff." It was 20 minutes long, which I thought was horrid - in a very busy world I rarely have time for......
Monday Whazzup - What is a Green Roof?
Chicago, Illinois has been building an interesting reputation as the green roof capital of the world. No kidding. As of 2004 there have been more than 80 public and private green roof projects moving forward. It is particularly interesting considerin...
Monday Whazzup - What To Do With Junk Mail Envelopes
According to the book 50 Simple Things You Can Do To Save The Earth, these shocking facts are related to junk mail: Each year, 100 million trees are used to produce junk mail; 250,000 homes could be heated with one......
Monday Whazzup - Get Out and Enjoy The Sound of Nature!
Want to feel healthy and like a million bucks? It is easy - get out in nature. It increases the level of serotonin your brain produces, gets you away from the chemicals, germs, and dry air of a closed building,......
Get Yo Green on Tuesdays - SAVE LANDFILLS - Recycle Carpet With Green Kid Crafts
Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) is a joint industry-government effort to increase the amount of recycling and reuse of post-consumer carpet and reduce the amount of waste carpet going to landfills. According to the CARE statistics, 5 billion po...
Get Your Green On Tuesday and in 2009 A GREEN New Year's Resolution Guide
It is that time again: the time for New Years Resolutions. Here are my top five easiest green and healthy tips which will really help you and your family “get your green on” in 2009. Make a GREEN New Years......
Monday Whazzup - Is There a Green Snowblower?
"Tis the season for snowblowers. Just how green and sustainable are they? After years of debate and justification over the purchase, last season the family finally gave in and bought an electric snowblower. Certainly a less green solution to hand......
Green and Simple Tip - Turn Water Off When Brushing Your Teeth!
The simplest and easiest green thing that everyone in the world can do with no trouble at all? CONSERVE WATER AND TURN THE FAUCET OFF WHEN YOU BRUSH YOUR TEETH! It is so easy a child can learn to do......
Get Yo' Green On Tuesdays - How to Save Money and Save the Earth During the Twelve Days of Christmas
I'm dreaming of a green Christmas, Hanukah, and Kwanzaa. In an amazing salute to the holidays I have created my very own GREEN "Twelve Days of Christmas" Sing-A-Long. Wanna be green this season? More ecologically friendly? Well, start humming the......
Monday Whazzup - Fixed Income? No Problem - Earn Money By Being Green
Economical difficulties are hard to face, particularly through the holidays. Want to take a few steps towards better greening that literally earns you money? Here are my top three environmentally friendly tips which can put cold hard cash in your......
Get Your Green On Tuesday - Shower Together and Conserve Water
Drought is not seasonal in most of the world and water is becoming increasingly scarce within the United States as well. What does this mean for the average person? It means that conserving water and not wasting should be something......
Monday Whazzup - A Story of EBay-Recycling The World's Ugliest Purse
Shopping via eBay is recyclicious, uh yeah, new term I invented: Recyclicious! Getting your "green on" has never been so easy as when you recycle on eBay (and you might be able to earn some money at it at the......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday - Touch Nature and Be Healthy
Getting your green on means more than recycling and removing chemicals from your property. Being "green" means to make a conscious choice to spend more time out in nature enjoying the real world. Today children often grow up thinking that......
