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 Cloth Diapers. We also have some great tips from N. & J. on the The Making of Homemade Soap Making posted at Bad Human! Don’t take chemicals from strangers!. Speaking of …

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 to not waste useable resources such as wood, plastic, glass, etc. This obviously reduces our need for virgin materials (such as wood or rubber) and allows us to give new life …

Welcome to the third “Tips for Green Living” carnival. Looks like our little get-together is causing quite a stir!
Let’s start with a celebration of what you are doing – reading! Rita Toews presents Read an ebook week 2008 posted at Life’s quite a ride.
Looks like transportation has been on everyone’s mind lately. Vihar Sheth presents some new driving alternatives in the post Car Sharing with WeCar posted at green | rising. matt smith presents » SuperBowl MVP Eli Manning selects hybrid Cadillac Escalade simple + green: taking steps towards a …

Welcome to the second edition of the new bi-monthly “Tips for Green Living” Carnival!
Why go green at all? Jacob presents Ecological capitalism and consumer capitalism posted at Early Retirement Extreme, a post explaining why he thinks the world looks as it does, why he went green, and why others should go green as well. Great job, Jacob!
Let me present you with another kindred soul, Alison Sharley who recently discovered our friend “No Impact Man” in her post, No Impact Man posted at Healthy and Green by the Day. …

Being kind to the environment (and your wallet!) is so much easier than you think, especially if you are in an apartment. Why especially? You are already living in a smaller space with less stuff and by definition should be consuming less energy than the person who lives in a house (think of the heating bill, which is a great example). Congratulations! Bet you didn’t even know living in an apartment could be an environmentally-friendly start, did you?
For my first tip, I’m going to recommend you start the New Year …