How to Choose and Use a Home Rainwater Catchment System
How big is your H2O footprint? With water shortages a growing concern, it makes sense to calculate and then try to reduce it. Once you do, a rainwater catchment system will guarantee…
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December 2018
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Professional Commercial Garden Maintenance Services
Everybody loves to have some green space around houses and even commercial buildings, so as to bring in the warmth of nature. But maintaining such greens can be tough. Untrimmed…
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Eco Baby: Essential Tips for the Eco-Conscious New Mom
A baby brings new responsibilities—and a whole new life. While it might seem overwhelming at first, with a few simple adjustments, you can watch over your little one and the…
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How to Throw a Green Birthday Party for Your Child
Want your child’s birthday party to make an impact on the guests and not the environment? It’s easier than you think to throw a green birthday bash without straining your…
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A Creative and Environmental Gift Wrap Alternative
Don’t buy so much (or any!) wrapping paper this holiday season. There are many alternative ways to decorate the birthday, anniversary, holiday and other presents you pass around. One of…
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Teaching Kids About the Earth: Resources for Parents
Teaching kids to appreciate the environment is important to their happiness and to humanity’s survival. And it all starts with parents modeling responsible stewardship of the Earth by making a…
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Simple Nature Crafts for Kids—or Anyone
Would you believe me if I told you that there is an eco-friendly and renewable craft store in your very own neighborhood? Yes, yours. I’d like to invite you to…
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Kids’ Environmental DIY: Make a Pizza-Box Solar Oven
The nice folks at GrowNYC, formerly Council on the Environment of New York City (CENYC), have implemented a city-schools program to train students in initiating renewable forms of energy in their…
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Nature Tables: Bringing the Seasons Home
Much like an altar, a nature table is a special place you keep in your home with symbols of the season going on around you outside. It’s something to reflect…
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6 Foods Rich in Iron to Prevent Iron Deficiency
Iron deficiency anemia results from low iron diets. Here is a list of iron-rich foods; healthy foods high in iron for those suffering from iron deficiency. This collection of top…
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What You Need to Know About Drugs and Chemicals in Your Drinking Water
Who among us would collect the pills from our neighbors’ medicine cabinets and randomly swallow a handful, or unscrew the top of a shampoo bottle and drink it? Yet with…
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A Case for a Messy Garden
There are many things that can be said for my vegetable garden; however, neat is not one of them. I prescribe to what can be described as the “messy garden”…
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