Organic Waste for Compost

How To Make a Food Scrap Smoothie

Here are directions for several types of food scrap smoothies you can make to fertilize your garden, indoor plants, lawn, etc.

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Community Garden

Greening Our Cities

Mass, mono-crop agriculture with its heavy reliance on chemical pesticides and herbicides and on polluting non-renewable fuel sources has had its day.

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Trash

Waste Not Want Not: Uses For Household Trash

The waste we generate is creating problems that are already having, and will continue to have, huge ramifications. Here are some ways to reuse the waste we create, without having to throw it away.

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Baking Soda and Vinegar

Cleaning Your House With Bicarbonate of Soda and Vinegar

Commercial manufacturers of household cleaning products would have us believe that we need a whole barrage of different unguents, cleaners, cleansers, scourers and bleaches to clean our homes, but nothing could be further from the truth.

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Using No Poo

Giving Up Shampoo – The No-Poo System

Hold onto your hats. Commercial shampoos are not only unnecessary, they are also almost certainly damaging your hair.

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Old Clothes

How to Re-Purpose Old Clothes

Here are just a few suggestions for some ways that you can re-purpose old clothes that are not ready for the scrap heap just yet.

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Solar Panels

What Is a Solar Panel and Why Would I Want One?

A solar panel can save you money, provide your home (or vacation home) with energy and help lessen your demand on fossil fuels. That’s innovative savings!

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Make Your Own Laundry Soap

How To Make Your Own Healthy Laundry Soap

This easy-to-make recipe for green laundry soap will allow you to avoid the phenols, phosphates and artificial fragrances that are in commercial laundry products.

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Green Shopping

Did The Older Generation Ruin The Environment?

This young person is blaming the older generation for not taking care of the environment and passing the resulting mess on to them. As a senior citizen myself, I beg to differ!

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Organic Living

Just What Does Organic Living Mean?

We have so many modern conveniences these days but major health problems still exist. In the search for the key to long life, organic living got its start.

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