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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 School is In Session Teach Your Children To Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
Once again it’s that time of year – school has begun. According to Discovery’s Planet Green website, “every ton of paper -- or 220,000 sheets-- that is recycled saves approximately 17 trees. For scale, the average school tosses 38 tons......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday How Do You Make Extra Money In A Recession? Recycle Metal!
Has the economy got you down? Darned-tootin! And you are not alone. With so many of our neighbors losing jobs and an economy still on the downswing, it has become more important than ever to find money where ever you......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday Compost 101 How To Compost
Food scraps and yard clippings make up one quarter of the United States’ solid waste piling up in landfills. The book, True Green, says, “When this organic matter ends up in landfills and decomposes without air, it produces methane, a......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday Use a Rain Barrel to Save Money and Water Plus Help Our Stormwater Systems!
One of the most fantastic ways to practice conservation, save money, AND water is to use a rain barrel! Clean Air Gardening sells some of the best and easiest to install. Above you see an instructional video showing the basics......
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 Save Landscape Waste From the Landfill
Today I am taking you with me on a field trip to help save some landscaping and gardening materials. Why, you ask? Because this is an easy way to make a difference and I wanted to show you how you......
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...
Get Yo Green On Tuesday How To Feel Less Depressed and Have More Energy By Being Outside In Nature
We all get depressed sometimes. Life is not easy and as human beings we are driven by emotions which move up and down frequently. However, do you feel sad, isolated and depressed regularly? In the short video above you can......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday Reusing Plastic Bag Ideas A Flower Pot Condoms errr.. Hats
This weekend my gardens – both my freshly planted annual flowerpots and my veggie garden faced imminent disaster: FROST! That’s right, Chicagoland’s unpredictable weather is consistent in it’s unpredictability. At 8:00 PM Saturday night I was...
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.....
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......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday SubZero Water Bottles A Very Disappointing Product Review
While at the local Walgreen’s a week ago I spotted one of those cool new stainless steel water bottles which was advertising it was “Reusable, Refillable, Recyclable.” It came in several colors and sizes and was made by SubZero. Since......
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....
Get Yo Green On Tuesday - Everythings Amazing, Nobodys Happy Why?
The Story of Stuff at www.storyofstuff.com talks about a linier usage system in the United States whereby companies process natural resources into product, then advertise and sell the product which is built to be broken from the very beginning. It......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday - Oak Savannah Prairie - A Day To Remember
Near my home in Illinois, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) exists on hundreds of acres and is considered unique because the site contains most of the major types of ecosystems representative of the Midwest. These include tall gras...
Get Yo Green On Tuesday - How Do You Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle? MacGyver It!
From 1985 to 1992, for 139 television episodes, Richard Dean Anderson played MacGyver, a scientist/spy/adventurer who believed in environmentalism before it was popular and saved the world at least once an episode. What made me love MacGyver, beyond ...
Get Yo Green On Tuesday - Recycle Your Ass Off!
Today is Tuesday - recycling day in my neighborhood. Why do I call it "recycling" day instead of "trash" day? Because for the last seven years I have lived in my neighborhood, I have put out four recycling bins every......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday - How to Recycle A T-Shirt Into A Carry Bag - An Eco-friendly Teen Craft!
Recently, my teenager took a class at her high school on the environmental sciences. Happily, the class taught her a lot about the concept of reduce, reuse, and recycle - she enthusiastically walked prairies, collected seeds in nature, and studied......
Get Yo' Green on Tuesday - Stop Over-Consuming; Reuse and Recycle Basic Items In Creative Ways
Making a difference from a green perspective means thinking about consumption. What are you throwing away that you could be reusing? Why buy something new when the items you have are perfectly good? We Americans consume more of the world’s......
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 Tuesdays Teaching Children Recycling and Green-Crafts
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle: the “greenie” mantra. One of my favorite ways to practice the 3 R’s is to save trash from the landfill by recycling it in the form of a craft. Being the first week in January, my......
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......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday - A Green Teen Activity During Winter Break - Recycle and REMIX!
It is Winter Break - that dreaded time when all parents sigh a collective groan. How do you keep your kids busy for two weeks of no-school-snow-day-filled holiday? I have the answer: RECYCLE! Teens and pre-teens are all about self-expression.......
Get Yo' Green On Tuesdays - Dangers of Christmas Lights, Garden Lights and Mini-Light Toxins - A Christmas Light Product Warning
Get ready to be shocked: holiday lighting, is poisonous! Every year my children and I decorate our tree with holiday lights - so do millions of children and parents around the world. Did you know that these lights are filled......
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......
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......
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......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday - Recycle and Rescue Items From a Landfill
Not too long ago I received this mysterious email: "Have park bench. It is yours. Find it leaning against a tree at XXXX Main Street." Sounded like a kidnapping to me. I half expected a guy in a black stocking......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday - Darth Vader is In My Garden!
This green tip is an updated excerpt from Shawna's newspaper column on greening and gardening; The Casual Gardener (www.thecasualgardener.com). Allergies!! I got’em! Particularly to molds. Fall is a season which brings misery to me, even with my po...
Get Your Green On Tuesday - Costco is Green - SURPRISE!
As a green lifestyle guru, my advice and focus has not been the mega-centers of the world. I cannot be certain that buying paper towels in economy size is good for either my family or the world from a green......
