How to Make Your Own Toys
Making toys yourself is really enjoyable, especially if you aim for simple toys for pre-school age kids. As well as being a rewarding pastime, it’s a green initiative that helps protect the environment by...
New Uses for an Old T-Shirt
T-shirts are not indestructible. Cotton wears thin and just as they become your favorite and most comfortable shirt, they develop a hole, or three. As popular as t-shirts are and as easy as they are to wear, ch...
Chemicals to Avoid During Pregnancy
Pregnancy is a delicate time during a mother and developing child’s life. Everything a mother touches, eats, or comes into contact with can have an impact on the life growing inside her. Unfortunately, it...
Green Car Buying Guide
Not so long ago you wouldn’t have had much choice when it came to buying a green car because there weren’t that many around. That’s all changed and if you’re not already an expert you&rs...
Yes on Prop 37: We Have the Right to Know What’s In Our Food!
Today is Election Day in the United States and besides exercising our right to choose a leader, Californians can also exercise their right to know what’s in the food they consume. Prop 37 would require...
Why Every Home Needs Some Solar Panels
Here we are, in an escalating energy crisis, with every corner of the planet being plundered to meet our need for fuels. It’s ironic when just up there in the sky is a massive source of completely free en...
The Principles of Green Business
Profit is a great incentive for any business. The problem is that too many businesses have abandoned social responsibility in the quest for bigger profits. It’s not enough to operate in a way that avoids ...
World Vegan Day
Established in 1994, World Vegan Day is celebrated to promote the habit of eating food that was made using entirely plant-based ingredients and no ingredients derived from animals. People that choose vegan life...
Why an Authentic Halloween is Green
Of all the holidays in the year, Halloween is one of the best for kids. With the costumes, the candy and the jack-o’-lanterns, Halloween has it all for the younger generation. Ghouls and ghosts, zombies a...
What Should We Expect After Hurricane Sandy?
Hurricane Sandy is hitting the northwest coast of US and it is threatening to paralyze almost all services for at least two days in the region. But apart from flooding and power outages, hurricanes also produce...