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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...
Save Our Landfills From Textile and Clothing Waste; Reuse What You Have!
American textile waste, according to the EPA's 1988 study on the United States Generation of Solid Waste, accounts for over 3.9 million tons of the solid waste stream. Post-consumer textile waste is most typically garments or household items like...
Kids and Recycling Expand Their Brains When They Say, Im Bored!
Fall rainy days and children combine to produce the inevitable complaint, “I’m bored.” Not too long ago my youngest daughter and I came up with a genius solution to the “I’m bored’s” which was fun and educational. Here’s how it......
Kids and Recycling Expand Their Brains When They Say, Im Bored!
Fall rainy days and children combine to produce the inevitable complaint, “I’m bored.” Not too long ago my youngest daughter and I came up with a genius solution to the “I’m bored’s” which was fun and educational. Here’s how it went...
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...
Recycle your CDs and DVDs Keep Your Technotrash Out Of Landfills
Shockingly, 30 billion Compact Disc’s (CDs) and Digital Video Disc’s (DVDs) are created every year; many of them only to end up as landfill. The CD Recycling Center of America says it is time we recycled them instead! Here’s the......
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......
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......
Green and Simple Tip With 26 Billion Toilet Paper Rolls Produced Yearly Harry the Pug Says Lets Recycle
Harry the Pug is bringing you a green and simple tip today – from the toilet. See the toilet roll by his paw? That little cardboard is the bi-product of a toilet paper roll – and usually the average American......
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......
A Yellow Pages Rant Whats With The Phone Book Company SCAM? Americans Go Digital and Save Our Resources and Our Landfill Space
Once again I have received the damned Yellow Pages Phone Book. I do not want these books - I have not used a phone book in nearly five years. Ever. Not even once in five years! Usually I toss the......
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......
Taste of Chicago - Why Are People Pigs? Stop Being Inconsiderate and Make a Difference For Your Community!
Above you see a photo of my oldest daughter at the Taste of Chicago ‘09. An event which draws millions of attendees and presents Chicago with an opportunity for a lot of positive financial revenue – a desperately needed commodity......
Kids - Recycle Your Jeans and Turn Them Into Green Home Insulation
Today Gardening Nude welcomes a guest blogger, Christine Escobar, founder and editor for Green Parent Chicago. If you have jeans that your children have outgrown, pairs that are too worn, ripped, stained or damaged to swap, consider having them recyc...
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......
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...
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......
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......
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...
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......
Retailers listen up - -Bag? Who needs a stinkin bag?
Bags. We get them at every store we go to. Heaps and heaps of bags. It takes a lot of energy and resources to make a bag and each year across the globe an estimated 500 billion to one trillion......
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 - 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......
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......
GREEN AND SIMPLE TIP - Guest Puggy Winston says Be Green on Super Bowl Sunday!
Our favorite guest puggy, Winston, once again graces our Green and Simple Tip page in celebration of this annual football event. His tip this week is all about Super Bowl recycling - "Football season is almost over and the Super......
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......
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......
GREEN AND SIMPLE TIP - Stop Living a Lie: Global Warming Exists, Recycling Can Help, and Obama Speaks the Truth
I am the first to admit that while watching President Obama's Inauguration I cried like a baby. Change is exciting and frightening, but change can also be good. President Obama seems confident in his expression of certain truths; publicly revealing.....
