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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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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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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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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Clearing the Air, Best Plants for Improving Indoor Air Quality
Traffic, smog, pollution, haze… whatever the cause, the effect is lower air quality in cities across the world. While there are different ways to tackle this problem, researcher Kamal Meattle…
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Easy Steps to Greening Your Office
Green Office Tips — Each year, the average American office worker uses 500 disposable cups and 10,000 sheets of paper. In the same time frame, computers thrown out by businesses…
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Sustainable Thanksgiving
As we begin to plan that lovely day of gorging ourselves silly, we can be green conscious in our Thanksgiving Menu. There are many levels of environmentally friendly ways to…
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8 Ways to Reduce the Impact of Christmas on the Environment
Cometh Yuletide and cometh the season of extravagance. So, here’s another opportunity to do our Earth a favor by giving a thought to the environment. Put some innovation behind your…
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Sustainable Definition, What Is Sustainability?
What is sustainability? – Let me start by saying what sustainability is not. It is not endless consumerism based on the pharmaceutical industry, plastic bags, traffic jams, war, clearcuts, chemicals,…
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Green Holiday Ideas: Reserving Christmas & Thanksgiving Leftovers
Green ideas for how to reuse leftover Holiday food this Christmas, Thanksgiving, or Easter. Creative ways to reserve leftovers, conserve food, & save money. There are a variety of ways…
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