Welcome to the New Year, oh Internet! We are back and have some great stuff for you to browse. dining & entertaining Returning blogger TaraG convinces us with 5 Reasons To Buy Organic Foods over at Go Green Street. Great stuff, TaraG! Jourdan Henderson gives us ways to Green your morning coffee! posted at Green Justice. I heart coffee and [...]
We covered decreasing your electricity use and your indoor air pollution. Click on the post to get the links.
There is so much talk in the green community about ways to go green and save you money, but so few people actually talk about what it involves and if the action they are commending is doable for someone living in smaller living quarters. This is why I wanted to start a new series here at Green Your Apartment: our monthly “green experiment”.
Since our last carnival was only last week, this carnival is a bit small but with some timely suggestions! As a special for the holidays, Guffly talks abouts Great Gifts for Men | Guffly posted at Guffly. Gotta say my guy would probably love that hemp messenger bag! living spaces I love all of theGreenGabber‘s suggestions in the post Easy [...]
Does it matter if the scientists and liberal media et alii are wrong and the climate is just doing its thing? What would be wrong with conserving your (I’m assuming) hard earned money and the resources we have? Abundant or otherwise, shouldn’t we wisely use as little as comfortably possible so we do not tax our resources unnecessarily and spend more of our personal resources (time, money, energy) than necessary to live a comfortable life?
So often when I first tell someone about this blog, people want to know the most important and/or easiest thing they can do to live “greener”. I smile and tell them it is so much easier than you think: walk, bike, or skate – don’t drive.
It not only makes sense but has a ring of poetic justice to it too: maybe the American dream is what is indeed killing America.
Suburbia. Suburban sprawl. The Suburban?
Welcome to the third “Tips for Green Living” carnival on this happy St. Patrick’s Day! Green for green! I’m amazed at how many wonderful submissions there were this time around. Let’s start with something currently near and dear to my heart – and my baby’s bum! Autumn Beck presents How To Make A Fitted Cloth Diaper posted at All About [...]
In this series, “Back to Basics”, I am covering the essentials of “going green” by focusing on the basic principles of green living. First in the series was Reduce, the second was Reuse, and today we will cover Recycle. The purpose of recycling is similar to reusing, except that recycling is usually done to create new products of old ones [...]
In this series, “Back to Basics”, I am covering the essentials of “going green” by focusing on the basic principles of green living. First in the series was Reduce and today we will cover Reuse, or as I like to call it, repurposing! The very point of reusing items to take a once useful item and use it again to [...]
As I was planning this post I came across an article about Starbucks’ recent national break to re-educate their baristas with the intricacies of espresso and cappaccino making (Google “Starbucks 3 hour break to find various articles on the subject). As I read over that particular article it kept occurring to me how often people confuse their message and purpose [...]
