What Is Carbon Footprint

Do you know what carbon footprint means? It doesn’t have anything to do with a footprint left by Sasquatch, in fact it’s a eco friendly term which means the total set of GHG (greenhouse gas) emissions caused directly and indirectly by an individual, organization, event or product. Almost everything you do throughout the [...]

Go Green When Cleaning With SafeChoice Safety Clean

Go Green When Cleaning With SafeChoice Safety Clean

You can now put away all of those harmful cleaning products, because we are giving you a chance to purchase a more eco-friendly cleaning product. SafeChoice Safety Clean doesn’t contain any toxins or hazardous ingredients or cleaning agents like butyl ethers, chlorine bleach, pine oils or masking agents which means you won’t have to [...]

Book Review - It’s Easy Being Green

Book Review - It’s Easy Being Green

Today, we have an easy to read book for the entire family that is full of information to help you go green from the author Crissy Trask. In the book, It’s Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living is just that, it’s a book that shows you how easy it is in being [...]

Earth Saving DVD Club

Earth Saving DVD Club

Yesterday was Earth Day, and you can continue doing your part for the environment by joining an Earth friendly DVD club that has the sole purpose of increasing social and environmental awareness through some great DVD’s that you can watch with the entire family. When you join this DVD club you will get the [...]

Pretty Green Giveaway: The Natural Dentist Natural Toothpaste/Rinses

Over at Pretty Green Girl there is a neat contest brewing, until Friday, April 24 at NOON, PST. It seems that she was unhappy with another big natural brand, and The Natural Dentist has teamed up with her to offer a nice Pretty Green Giveaway.
To enter:
1. Leave a comment on this blog with what [...]

Whole Foods and Preserve start Gimme 5 Recycling Program

Here is a great program being established by Whole Foods.

Gimme 5 Recycling by Paige Brady,  on January 20th, 2009
Great news for recyclers out there! Some of our Whole Foods Market stores are piloting a new program for recycling #5 plastic with Preserve called Gimme 5. If you don’t have the recycling numbers memorized (like [...]

Turn off your power strip, save $$$

Turn off your power strips when they are not in use. As of 1997 figures, the average American household continuously leaks about 50 watts of electricity.  Eliminating that would save at least $1 billion a year in wasted electricity.
One easy method to detect and examine the amount of electricity your devices use is the [...]

Gift Wrapping With Reusable Materials

Gift Wrapping With Reusable Materials

Are you getting ready to wrap gifts this season or do you have some winter birthday gifts that need wrapping? Why not get creative and re-use materials for your gift wrapping to go green with your gifts. First off, if you have kids that are adored by your family members why not use [...]

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