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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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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......
Monday Whazzup Learning To Be Green in High School
One of the most important life lessons we can ever teach our children is how to give back to the world. That is what Gloria Latta and her team of environmental educators at Wheaton Warrenville South High School is doing......
Monday Whazzup One Mans Junk is Another Mans Treasure
As my eight year old and I are driving to her gymnastics class last week, we are negotiating over the grass. She is losing grass and I am gaining garden beds, so there is a strong concern over where she......
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.....
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......
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 - Recycling Old Headphones Into A Necklace - Another Awesome Green Teen Craft
Most teens and college aged music lovers go through headphones like they're going out of style. While there are several things I use the old headphones for - including garden ties and ties to organize extension cords - my favorite......
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,......
Monday Whazzup - Get Your Children Out In Winter Nature to Encourage Better Health
Kids spend too little time outdoors in nature. During the Winter, particularly in the northern states, it is particularly difficult to get children active outside. However, it is critical for their health. According to Richard Louv, the author of Las...
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......
Monday Whazzup - Remembering Luna, The Incredible Recycling Dog
Ever meet a special soul who changes your life forever from the moment they touch your life? This is what happened for me when I met Luna, the Incredible Recycling Dog. I wrote a feature about Luna and her master,......
Monday Whazzup - Reduce, Reuse, Recycle Holiday Gift Wrap and Christmas Paper - You Can Make A Difference!
Today's blog is an excerpt from Shawna's green and healthy newspaper column, "The Casual Gardener." Enjoy! Every holiday season, my family receives, saves and reuses dozens of greeting cards which come in the mail. Cut off the more decorative part......
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 - Make Green Holiday Gifts and Bring Family Together
Scarf making fabric - $30. Hot cocoa - $1. Scissors - Free. Spending a snowy afternoon with your children making inexpensive, green-packaged, no-sew, thoughtful homemade gifts - Priceless!!! Why spend hours at a shopping center agonizing over the rid...
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......
Monday Whazzup Build Good Mental Health By Building Family Community - Make a Difference In The Life Of Another!
Being a part of a family and a community is good for the soul. Our society is often isolationist driven, which encourages poor mental health. Keeping in communication with our friends and family - especially having these people to depend......
Monday Whazzup - Make a Difference in Nature and In The Life Of A Child
This photo is a picture of my daughter in front of the twelve foot sunflowers we grew in the back garden this year. Life is what we make it. What if I told you that every day you could make......
Monday Whazzup - How Being Outside in Nature Can Help with Stress and Improve Mental and Physical Health
Being outside in nature is a joy. It energizes we humans by increasing the flow of the essential brain chemical, serotonin, and it grounds us with a sense of restoration and healing. Being "green" means so many different things, but......
Monday Whazzup - Educating Children About The Meaning of Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle
This weekend my eight year old daughter came to me, held up a toy perfume atomizer and said, "I have invented a breath freshener! Wanna try?" Ah... a cure for morning breath. Awesome. My daughter breath freshening her dolls. "Of......
Monday Whazzup - Hunky Harry and G.I. Joe Save My Fanny
Today's Monday Whazzup features a republish of a "letter to the editor" I wrote a while back. Having Hunky Harry and G.I. Joe save my fanny was the best - thank you gentlemen for making my day - and better......
Monday Whazzup - Gardening Nude The Book is Published!!
WAHOO! The Whazzup for the Week is exciting stuff for Gardening Nude - my book is finally published and available. I'm SO excited to bring the message of health, greening, and community to the world and hope my fans out......
