How to Save Water at Home
Water is a precious resource, without it life would cease. People like to see water around them, flowing in a fountain in a yard or hear the waves at the beach. The Romans went to great lengths to direct water into their cities’ centers for the public baths. Yet today, when environmental challenges are very...
Low Cost Housing: How It Can Simultaneously Save Money and Environment
As the economy puts its heavy strains on us, low cost housing, or affordable housing, has become one of our biggest needs along with access to healthy whole food. Affordable housing is not just about how to build a house in the most affordable way possible. It is about how construction can take place...
How to Can Food: Beginners’ Style
Canning food is a reliable form of food preservation. By taking the bounty of the fat times, the summer months and converting them into jellies, pickles, sauces, stocks and other products, you can store up a reserve of food for the lean times, winter months when few, if any, crops will grow. It’s a labor-intensive...
Communal Living: Old Concept, New Establishments
Whenever the words communal living is used around me, the first thing I think of is sharing bathrooms and other living spaces. Many college students understand the concept and most of us will never forget those years. But communal living has become a way many ordinary people live and according to them, the benefits are...
What is Thermal Pollution?
The phenomenon known as thermal pollution may also be classified as a type of water pollution since it is an unfavorable change in the physical, chemical, and biological properties of a natural body of water due to a dramatic shift in temperature within that same body of water. Whether the temperature of the water...
Tying the Knot Green? Do it with Eco Friendly Wedding Rings
Our society is beginning to wake up to ways in which we use or abuse our natural resources. Some people aim to make the small changes in their lives that add up, such as buying organic produce, shop local, cut down on waste and unnecessary electricity usage. Others may have even taken a Permaculture class,...
Eco-Friendly Weddings: Green Ways You Can Have that Special Day
For those of you that have the engagement ring on your finger, the next step is to plan your wedding and knowing where to start is hard enough. Planning a wedding can be stressful, but there is no need to put extra stress on the environment. It is time to think green and save...
The Benefits Of An Aquaponic Farm
Aquaponics is defined as “the integration of aquaculture (the raising of marine animals, such as fish) with hydroponics; the waste products from the fish are treated and then used to fertilize hydroponically growing plants”. Simply put, aquaponics is a recycling system, it mimics the natural system of our Earth. It is a system where aquaculture...
How to Grow a Tree
Planting a tree seem so simple. It just grows without any real attention. In actual fact, it takes a little more than a shovel and some water. This is true when you plant a tree as a sapling, in fertile soil, in an area with a climate that is appropriate to the tree. When...
The Volcano Stove – Something for Everyday Use
The volcano stove is a revolutionary stove that can be used in more than one way. Such multi-functionality makes it a great tool. Although, traditionally embraced by by campers, you have nothing to lose by incorporating its use in at home, especially in a household that strives to be more self-sufficient and eco-friendly. It...
How To Recycle Batteries
Today almost everything uses batteries – from wristwatches and mobile phones to laptop computers and cars. Anything that runs on electricity without having to rely on an external power source for practical reasons requires a battery. However, as great as batteries are for making portable devices, they are not built to last forever, even the...
Eco-Friendly Furniture: Elemental for a Green Home
With environmental awareness at a high, people are looking for ways to do their part in order to lessen the carbon footprint they leave behind. What role does our home furniture have in becoming more eco-friendly? A lot, it turns out. Furniture, although static parts of our daily lives offering us comfort or a...