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 LivingSacred Medicine Wheel
Elizabeth FournierSaturdays sunset saw the laying to rest of Chayton Lootah, also known as Hawk-that-is-Red. His father beat out the steady rhythm from a hand drums on which his grandmother painted a picture of the evening sky. The rest of us spent this time completing the rock-formed Medicine Wheel to honor his life. Native American traditions follow the belief and practice that the natural world is truly s...
Read more...CategoriesMiscellaneous Green | Naturally GreenUnjunk 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 LivingNatural Green Burial
Elizabeth FournierIf you live a life of reduce, reuse and recycle, possibly are vegetarian or vegan, keep simple tastes and try to buy used furniture rather than pay for something that would take a lot of energy to produce, your green life might be complimented by a greener death. Internationally, a trend is growing for more natural burial where bodies can be returned to the earth with a minimal carbon footp...
Read more...CategoriesNaturally Green | Eco Living | Miscellaneous GreenWasting 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-CelebritiesTzeporah Berman: Environmental Activist
Valerie WintOnce called an enemy of the state, Canadian environmental activist Tzeporah Berman could be mistaken today for a soccer mom. But the passionate redhead remains as unapologetic now as when she attended her first major protest against logging giant MacMillan Bloedel in 1993, or when she spearheaded the Victorias Dirty Secret Campaign against the lingerie companys not-very-green catalogue hab...
Read more...CategoriesNaturally Green | Eco Living | Eco-CelebritiesNatural Stain Removers
Melissa MakerSo, you have a stain. Now what? As panic sets in, you think about how you can get rid of the messy marking without breaking out the strong stuff. Here are some great ideas: Baking Soda Bake-tastik!Baking soda is a great product for stain removal because it offers gentle abrasion and can lightly erase stains. Something like scuff marks or crayon on walls can usually be taken off wit...
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Ecover: Green Packaging
Naturally SavvyEcover is over 30 years old now, which means weve had some time to explore the ins and outs of green cleaning it also means weve had ample time to prod...
Read more...CategoriesIn the Spotlight | Savvy Reviews | Product Reviews | Naturally GreenRecycling Comes From Within
Elizabeth FournierLast spring, I realized I was no longer twenty and opted for my own version of a midlife crisis: I decided to take ukelele lessons. My perky, young inst...
Read more...CategoriesNaturally Green | Eco Living | Miscellaneous GreenTransform 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 d...
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 r...
Read more...CategoriesGreen Living | EnvironmentGrowing 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 th...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment | Green LivingBiofuels' 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 | EnvironmentCoconut Oil Protects Against Toxins
Natural Health NewsRead more...CategoriesEnvironment | General WellnessGood Boxes Offers a Greener Way to Move
Andrea DonskyMoving is exciting, sometimes scary, and always stressfuland packing is the worst part of it! You have to buy cardboard boxes or find clean ones. Then t...
Read more...CategoriesEco Living | Live LocallySesame Street Has Always Been Green
Elizabeth FournierWhen my brother and I were five and six, we had a kinship with two rubber puppets. Bert and Ernies likenesses were firmly affixed to our left hands for ...
Read more...CategoriesNaturally Green | Eco Living | Mommy and Me | MultimediaFinnish 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 LivingClimate Change, Extreme Weather Linked
The Energy CollectiveThe Pew Center is teaming up with Scientific American to explain the link between climate change and extreme weather. In a new three-part series featured...
Read more...CategoriesEnvironment5 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...
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