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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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Win A Recycled Wind Sculpture For A Christmas or Holiday Gift and Help Keep Metal Out Of Our Landfills!
My favorite recycled green gift of the year comes from two fantastic artists who are long time friends and partners, Barbara C. Ryan and Elsa M. Mikus. They run an awesome shop based on a green concept which keeps metals out of the landfills. Tempest...
Stop Throwing Your Disgusting Cigarette Butts On The Ground Our Earth Is Not Your Ashtray and Taxpayers Are Paying For It!
Did you know that cigarette butt litter makes an impact economically and environmentally in your community? Daily, as I go about my business, I am constantly shocked by drivers who pitch their disgusting cigarette butts out of car windows and on t...
Support Healthy Living Have A Green Fair!
How do you live healthier? How do you learn more about living a green lifestyle and what that means? There’s so much information out there it can be quite confusing. My suggestion is to educate your community by getting awesome......
Have An E-Waste Recycle Event At Your Home Help Your Neighbors Learn About Saving Landfill Space
Electronic waste is currently the fastest growing category of municipal landfill waste. GreenerChoices.org says, “Nearly 3 million tons of consumer electronic waste was generated in 2003 alone, according to the most recent U.S. EPA estimates.” Gu...
The Morton Arboretum On The Cutting Edge; Beer Bottle Glass Sustainable Paving
Once again The Morton Arboretum is on the cutting edge with sustainability; utilizing recycled glass as a path product. “Building paths from recycled beer bottles is another wonderful example of our progress towards a more sustainable experience fo...
Green and Simple Tip Reuse or Recycle Your Paper Napkins From the Car
In a perfect world we would be utilizing paper napkins that are made from 100% post consumer waste (PCW) and are processed chlorine-free (PCF) (which means no bleach will get into our water systems after the product is thrown out......
Car Trash What Do You Do With It? Heres a Green Recycle Tip!
See the photo above – that would be me at least 50% of my life – in the car. Just call me “The Taxi” It’s true; Americans spend a lot of time in their cars due to our hectic modern......
Greening is Easy AND Can Make You A Profit Garage Sale Sustainability
Here it is – a giant fallacy about living a sustainable lifestyle: that you need to spend a lot of time and money to make it happen. Many times I have heard my friends say, “I refuse to do anything......
How To Install A Rain Barrel The Conservation Foundation Helps Demonstrate How Easy It Is to Install A Rain Barrel
How easy is it to install a rain barrel? REALLY EASY! Jim Kleinwachter works with me in the above short video to demonstrate how easy it really is to install a rain barrel. Jim runs The Conservation Foundation’s incredibly successful......
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...
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Your Package Waste Make A Difference For Our Landfill Space
How bad is our package waste problem in the United States? Annually the people of California – ALONE - generate 66 million tons of solid waste. Almost one third of that solid waste is packaging. Above you see an example......
Put Together a Recycling Extravaganza Event and Make A Difference!
When I met Kay McKeen, the first thing she said to me was, “You really need to come to the Wheaton Recycling Extravaganza.” This was years ago, and I am more than happy I followed her advice. Dupage County, Illinois......
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...
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......
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......
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 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......
Green and Simple Tip - Guest Puggy Says Recycle Your Christmas Trees
Today I am kicking the New Year in with a Green and Simple Tip. Guest puggy, Winston, Green Super Dog and rescuer of fair maidens says, "Check with your local waste authority about proper disposal or recycling of your live......
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 - 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......
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......
Gardening Nude Naked Winner of the Week: Ebay Inc. for Global Citizenship
Most Fridays I feature a special person on the Gardening Nude Blog, this week I am featuring a corporation as the "Naked Winner of the Week." Every person or corporation featured in this category is a winner for doing great......
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......
