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Re-Upholstering Dining Room Chairs
Replacing the fabric gives your dining room chairs a whole new look at a fraction of the cost (and environmental impact) of buying new ones — and minimizing environmental impact is what green living is [more…]
How to Install Solar Light Tubes
Tubular skylights can bring sunlight through your roof and attic and into your home. This video shows you how to install a light tube to save energy, reduce utility bills, and brighten up dark areas of [more…]
Reusing and Repurposing Everyday Items
Reusing sits above recycling in the hierarchy of the three Rs — reduce, reuse, and recycle — because it doesn’t require any extra energy for reprocessing and because it cuts down on the need to buy new [more…]
Conserving Water in Your Garden
Water conservation is becoming ever more important in sustaining a healthy planet. Paying attention to your water usage in the garden is one way to promote an eco-friendly lifestyle. You have two primary [more…]
LEED Green Building Certification
To help the construction industry define green building, the U.S. Green Building Council(USGBC) devised a scoring method to rate how green buildings are. That rating system, called Leadership in Energy [more…]
How to Reduce Energy Use at Work
Part of making your workplace more environmentally conscious and friendly lies in the building itself. You can make suggestions about how to improve electricity conservation, water usage, and even furniture [more…]
Tips for Growing Your Own Produce in a Home Garden
A spare area of sod or bare earth in your yard has wonderful potential to be turned into a source of the freshest produce possible, saving time, money, and gas in the process. You can grow nutritious, [more…]
Planning to Grow Your Own Fruits and Vegetables
Growing your own fruits and vegetables is one of the ultimate acts of green living. Not only does it cut down food miles (the distance food travels from where it’s produced to the consumer) to zero, but [more…]
Turning Old Fabric into Gift Bags
You can reuse gift bags and keep them out of the waste stream for a while, but you can go even greener and make your own gift bags from reused fabric, extending the useful life of the gift bag indefinitely [more…]
The Essentials of Living Green with Children
Introducing your kids to green living is easier than you might think. By reviewing the essentials of living green with children, you can learn how to not only teach them about green living but involve [more…]
Turning Broken Plates into Tabletops
A green lifestyle includes reusing resources. You can turn old and broken plates into creative works of art as tabletop mosaics. Choose a non-toxic, eco-friendly adhesive and grout [more…]
Fertilizing Naturally and Organically with Compost
Homegrown fruits and vegetables grow best in fertile soil. It’s important, though, to keep the fertilizers natural in order to avoid introducing potentially harmful chemicals into the environment. Compost [more…]
How to Create and Maintain a Home Recycling Center
Sorting and storing your recyclable glass, plastics, metals, and paper can be part of your green living plans. This video shares some ideas about how and where to stash your trash in your home or apartment [more…]
How to Audit Your Home's Heating and Cooling Systems
Audit your home's heating, ventilation, and cooling (HVAC) system to lower utility bills and be more ecological. Your furnace and air conditioning systems must heat and cool efficiently to conserve energy [more…]Creating Community Currency: A Bartering System
A community currency program works by assigning a value for skills and products based on a point system instead of cash. Alternative currencies help entire communities make less impact on the environment [more…]
How to Install a Solar-Powered Vent Fan
Get eco-friendly with solar power by installing a vent fan in the attic of your home. Driven by the sun, the one-piece unit can improve ventilation and cool your entire house. Installation of a solar-powered [more…]
Keeping Your Washer and Dryer Running Clean and Green
Clothes washers don’t require a great deal of maintenance, but doing the minimum helps reduce your water and energy use, making your carbon footprint lighter. The real energy hog is the dryer, and you [more…]
Deciphering the Seven Plastic Identification Codes
If you’re interested in living a green lifestyle, avoid using plastics. Plastics are one of the least eco-friendly materials in both initial production and recycling. Conventional plastics often use petrochemicals [more…]
How to Make Your Clothes Last
One of the most effective methods of reducing the demand for clothes — an eco-friendly goal that decreases the need to manufacture new clothing, which saves energy and resources — is to keep all the items [more…]
How to Turn Old Clothes into Wine or Gift Bags
Using a few simple sewing techniques, you can turn old clothes into clever gift bags or wine totes. This video shows you how to reuse clothing by recycling fabric into functional bags for gift giving. [more…]
Managing your Home’s Temperature
Sure you want to be comfortable, but you also want to live green, and moving the thermostat a few degrees lessens your carbon footprint while still keeping you comfortable. Check with the [more…]
Regulating Your Home’s Climate with Solar Techniques
You can harness the power and heat of the sun — the planet’s most sustainable energy source — to provide most of your needs for heating, cooling, and daylighting with relatively little cost to you and [more…]
How to Build a Compost Pile
Kitchen scraps and yard waste make great garden fertilizer after they decompose into organic matter. Building a compost pile is as easy as layering the right materials, watering, and stirring. This video [more…]
Reusing and Recycling Tires
Car tires pose a big problem for the environment. Tires don’t break down, burning them releases toxic gases, and they can release toxins and chemicals into the dirt on which they’re stored. Almost every [more…]
Repairing Old Wooden Chairs
Repairing instead of discarding is one of the primary tenets of living a green lifestyle. Wobbly legs are common on older wooden chairs, but that doesn’t mean the chair has to sit in a landfill. [more…]
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