How Does Recycling Save Energy?

Helping the environment happens one step at a time. If you’re enthusiastic about living an eco-friendly lifestyle, you probably take the time to recycle and compost most of your home waste. While recycling certainly reduces the waste you produce, did you know that recycling saves energy as well? Producing [...]

2024-02-28T14:11:13-05:00December 26th, 2018|

Do Energy Star Appliances Really Save Money?

When it comes to energy efficient appliances, do Energy Star appliances really save money? The honest answer is that it depends. If your current refrigerator and other appliances are over a decade old, they weren't created with the same energy standard requirements as new appliances and probably aren't running [...]

2024-02-28T14:02:53-05:00December 19th, 2018|

Reduce Waste with Our 15 Eco-Friendly Holiday Tips

The upcoming holidays are a time to celebrate with family and friends, enjoy delicious food, receive gifts, decorate our homes, and show gratitude for the things we have. And what better way to show a little gratitude than treating our planet with the care it deserves. When the holidays [...]

2024-02-28T14:10:21-05:00December 12th, 2018|

The Pros & Cons of Nuclear Energy: Is it safe?

When you hear the words “nuclear energy,” what do you think of? Perhaps an image comes to mind of a nuclear bomb, or a nuclear energy crisis like Chernobyl or Fukushima. If this is your image of nuclear power, you might be surprised to learn that nuclear energy is [...]

2024-02-28T13:56:37-05:00December 5th, 2018|

10 Tips for Gardening with Recycled Materials

Gardeners are natural recyclers. If you’ve been gardening for years, you probably have a working compost pile full of food scraps and compostable materials. This is one of the best ways to recycle in your garden because it gives back to the earth and creates food for growing plants. [...]

2024-02-28T14:01:55-05:00November 7th, 2018|

Propane v Natural Gas: The Facts & How You Can Use Both

Propane and natural gas are two gas fuels commonly used for cooking and heating. While many people see it as propane vs natural gas, the gasses are similar in many ways. However, they also have a number of important differences as well. One major difference is in the way [...]

2024-02-28T14:01:21-05:00October 24th, 2018|

How to Upcycle Clothes: A Beginner’s Guide

Remember how your grandma was an expert at turning something old into something new and useful? Well, she was what we’d call a master at upcycling! Upcycling is essentially turning something old or used into something new, useful, or even pretty. Just to give you an idea, upcycling clothes [...]

2024-02-28T14:17:23-05:00October 17th, 2018|

How To Live Zero Waste: A Beginner’s Guide

It’s no secret: landfill waste is an enormous problem for the earth. The amount of trash we throw away that doesn’t decompose presents a great threat to our environment by producing noxious gases and contaminating groundwater and surface water. Animals are also affected as they feed off the garbage [...]

2024-02-28T14:11:05-05:00October 10th, 2018|

12 Eco-Friendly Clothing Brands You’ll Love to Wear

You may think that the clothes you wear have little impact on the environment, but you’d be wrong. Almost 25% of all insecticides and 10% of pesticides used on the planet are applied to cotton crops, even though they make up less than 3% of crops worldwide. Thankfully, there [...]

2024-02-28T14:17:06-05:00September 19th, 2018|

What is Solar Paint?

What is Solar Paint and How Does it Work? Solar paint, also known as photovoltaic paint, is perhaps one of the most interesting concepts available in the solar power market. However, while it has been shown that solar paint does work as described and it’s been improved by various [...]

2024-02-28T14:05:20-05:00September 12th, 2018|
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