How To Bury Your Pet, Naturally
Elizabeth FournierWhen it comes to sending a favorite furry friend off into the grand beyond, cremation is the most common practice, but a natural home burial is also commonplace for those with yards. If this is the option that works for you, you may want to check in with any local ordinances that may prohibit this if you plan on interring anything larger than a hamster,canaryor goldfish. To guard against a...
Read more...CategoriesPet Care | Naturally Green | Environment | Green LivingChallenge Your Family To Live Green
Gill DeaconWith Earth Day quickly approaching this coming weekend, going green is top of mind for many. But instead of living green for just one day, what if you and your family spent the month of April making a conscious effort to reduce your environmental footprint? Since becoming a mother and breast cancer survivor, Ive learned that whether its Earth Month, Earth Hour, Earth Day or just a regular T...
Read more...CategoriesNaturally Green | Green LivingUnjunk Your Life: Clear Clutter For Clarity
Naturally SavvyLook around you. Are there items on the floor or stacked on tables that shouldnt be there? Is your furniture a mish-mash of sentimental hand-me-downs that you cant seem to part with? Your home and work environments affect you on many levels. Clutter can interfere with your clarity, energy, creativity and prosperity. Spring is the perfect time for a clean break with superfluous stuff. Release an...
Read more...CategoriesNaturally Green | Green LivingWasting Food Costs You Money
Naturally SavvyOver half of the food produced worldwide is wasted. Its estimated that the average household throws away a third of the food purchased each week, and one out of four items of fresh produce is thrown out. That amounts to a cost of $600 per household each year on fresh produce alone. Unfortunately, vegetables and fruit that arent composted end up in a landfill where they arent exposed to either l...
Read more...CategoriesNaturally Green | Environment | Green LivingPalm Oil In Chocolate
Naturally SavvyValentines Day is just around the corner, and that means loads of people will be giving and receiving little red heart-shaped boxes of chocolate. But while the treats seem as sweet as the sentiment, you can bet a whole lot of that chocolate is made with palm oilwhich is about as bad for you as it is for the planet. Palm Oils Destruction Palm oil production poses significant threats to e...
Read more...CategoriesNaturally Green | Green LivingThe Pope Mobile: Green Energy For The Vatican
Elizabeth FournierSo I entered a contest last year. Actually I entered lots of them. I entered the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) Leagues Asimov Memorial LimerickContest. There once was a little green man, whose signal I happened to scan. Itried to name a friends dog; apparently Dogma was a better name than my frontrunners of Itchy and Gittem. And I entered a chili cook-off with my homebre...
Read more...CategoriesNaturally Green | Environment | Green Living | Eco Living | Eco-CelebritiesTransform Your Trash
Green Goes SimpleThe jars came first. Instead of sending my growing collection of empty glass receptacles to their usual fate at the bottom of the recycle bin, I did something unexpected -- something wild. I peeled off their labels and plopped them in the dishwasher. I wanted to see just what would happen if I gave these jars another chance. Full disclosure: I was motivated not only by the thou...
Read more...CategoriesGreen Living | EnvironmentGreen Your Commute
Green Goes SimpleYou dont have to completely give up your car to prove how much you care about the environment. Simply changing the way you commute can radically reduce the amount of air pollution, greenhouse gases and carbon emissions you produce each day. And whats more, alternative modes of transportation can benefit your health, save you money and even lead to new friendships (hello, carpool budd...
Read more...CategoriesGreen Living | EnvironmentReusing and Recycling 101
Green Goes SimpleYou want to be green, but its hard to know the difference between reusing and recycling. Fortunately, its not that complicated. Recycling and reusing have the same goal: to keep items out of overflowing landfills. The two tactics just go about it in very different ways. Recycling involves reprocessing an old item -- such as a can, glass or newspaper -- and turning it into somet...
Read more...CategoriesGreen LivingGrowing Hydroponics Organically
Garden MandyOrganic foods have been in demand over the last few years. Giant food producers like Monsanto are increasingly looked at with suspicion are they genetically manipulating the food supply? Are the pesticides they use safe? Are they being good stewards of the land, rotating crops to preserve the soils health and integrity? All we know about corporate farming is that theres big bucks...
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Biofuels' Potential
The Energy CollectiveSlowly but surely, an extraordinarily important new industry is slowly taking shape, with the potential to transform the global economy. After year...
Read more...CategoriesGreen Living | EnvironmentMoving Forward with Smart Grid
The Energy CollectiveAs debates and negotiations over the debt ceiling have been consuming congressional leaders, policymakers minds are probably far from Smart Grid and the ...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingReassurance About Nuclear Energy
The Energy CollectiveOn Friday, July 29, 2011, Matt Wald of the New York Times published an article titled N.R.C. Lowers Estimate of How Many Would Die in Meltdown that descr...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingA Dolphin's Dilemma for Fishermen in the Gulf
The Energy CollectiveLouisiana shrimp buyer Dean Blanchard has seen plenty of crazy things during hislife inthe bayou. But his eyes nearly popped out of their socketsthe day ...
Read more...CategoriesGreen Living | EnvironmentFamily-friendly Ways to Save Water
Green Goes SimpleWater conservation is one of the most important elements of an eco-friendly home -- yet its among the hardest to impress upon your kids. Its...
Read more...CategoriesGreen LivingLove Your Lawn (and the Earth Too)
Green Goes SimpleMaintaining a lush, healthy lawn without resorting to harsh chemicals is no easy task. Fortunately, you dont have to have a supremely green thumb ...
Read more...CategoriesGreen LivingFinnish Waste to Wheel Technology
The Energy CollectiveDue to its location on the periphery of Europe, biofuel developments by Finnish companies often receive less media attention than they deserve. However, ...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingThe Way You Water
Green Goes SimpleWatering the lawn, running in the sprinkler, lazy days by the pool -- each of these summer activities proves that water is a central part of warm-...
Read more...CategoriesGreen Living5 Green Products for Family Life
Eco Child's Play1. Childrens Stir-Fry Garden plus Free Access to an Interactive Gardening Website Growums are little kits for that make it easy for children to ha...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingGreen ways to chill this summer
Eco Child's PlayThe irony of air conditioning in a warming world couldnt be more poignant. As the thermometer climbs across the globe, under a thickening blanket of CO2...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingTowards A 100% Electrified Southeast Asia
The Energy CollectiveElectrified Rural and Remote Areas in Southeast Asia 160.3 million people in Southeast Asia were unelectrified and almost 80% of them live in rural...
Read more...CategoriesGreen Living | EnvironmentWill The US Make Its Emissions Target?
The Energy CollectiveIt has been an interesting week for climate change news, with the IPCC releasing its full report on renewable energy, the European Commission moving ahea...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingWhy The Southeast Needs To Catch Up On Energy Efficiency
The Energy CollectiveRecently, we shared the great news that most utility customers across the Southeastern states that we focus on have or will very soon have access ...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingHow Do Renewables and Oil Sands Affect Energy Security?
The Energy CollectiveHow Do Renewables and Oil Sands Affect Energy Security? Despite its frequent use in policy and other discussions, energy security lacks a single, fixed m...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingTime to Sell That Ocean Front Property?
The Energy CollectiveThe rate of sea level rise along the U.S. Atlantic coast is greater now than at any time in the past 2,000 years, according to a new study published this...
Read more...CategoriesGreen Living | EnvironmentBuried Pipes Versus Buried Pipelines
The Energy CollectiveSeveral months ago, I signed up to receive press releases from Representative Ed Markey, mainly so you dont have to endure the pain yourself. On June 21,...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingSolar Takes Another Step Towards Grid Parity
The Energy CollectiveSolar Photovoltaic (PV) manufacturing continues along a trajectory of decreasing costs that will very soon cause it to reach grid parity. This post looks...
Read more...CategoriesGreen Living | EnvironmentA Key Area of Concern
The Energy CollectiveAlthough much of the discussion about climate change impacts has focused on increases in temperature and the rise in sea level, changes that impact our n...
Read more...CategoriesGreen Living | EnvironmentRange Extenders for Hybrid Vehicles
Got 2 Be GreenWe are in the decade of the hybrid electric vehicle despite the fact that most off road and underwater vehicles are pure electric. That includes ...
Read more...CategoriesGreen Living | EnvironmentForest Rules Leave Water, Wildlife at Risk
Got 2 Be GreenLawmakers, Pew and other conservation groups echo call for clear standards WASHINGTON, PRNewswire-USNewswire/ More than 400 scientists, lawmakers ...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingGreed Plumbing Trends
Garden MandyThey say the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. What they dont tell you is the real reason it might well be that the next...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingThe Long-Range Forecast? Stormy Weather…
The Energy CollectiveCommerce, Missouri: April 27, 2011 Its sometimes said that no individual storm, flood, drought or wildfire can be specifically a...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingA Clean Energy Future For Our Troops, For Us
The Energy CollectiveCongress is debating the Defense Department authorization bill, the legislation that allocates the $700 billion needed to fund our military through 2012....
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingSolar Renewable Energy Credit Markets Choking
The Energy CollectiveThe pace of solar installations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania is ironically destroying the incentives that make such installations possible. Solar...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingCarbon Market In A Slump
The Energy CollectiveAs world environment ministers and representatives meet in Bonn for climate talks this week, investors in the carbon market are hoping, probably in v...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingWhy Is Renewable Energy So Expensive,
The Energy CollectiveSometimes the most important information comes from seemingly boring sources. Scholars are said to have the souls of ants because they look at seemingly ...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingSolar Alternative That Rivals Nuclear
The Energy CollectiveAlternatives to nuclear energy, no doubt something on a lot of minds, provides interesting answers today. Creative applications in Concentrated Solar Pow...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingRoundtable on China’s Energy Future
The Energy CollectiveJust a note that this weekend I leave for an extended business trip, with visits to Seattle, Washington D.C., Germany, Massachusetts, Vermont, and Califo...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingTechnology To Meet The Energy Challenge
The Energy CollectiveAs this community knows all too well, the demand for energy is rapidly increasing. Over the next 20 years, the world population is expected to grow by 20...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingTexas Offshore Wind Energy Project Poised to be 'First in the Water'
The Energy CollectiveTexan wind energy developer poised to construct first U.S. offshore wind turbine, even as policy uncertainty and tricky project financing harries ...
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