Sangre de Grado: Medicinal Plant of the Rainforest

by Paula Quinlan
The rainforests today have evolved over millions of years, creating a complex, bio-diverse, living and breathing renewable resource for the survival and well-being of humankind. The inner dynamics of the rainforests are so intricate, fragile, and interdependent, that when one part is destroyed, it can have a devastating effect on the rainforest as [...]

Green to the End

by Diane Wolfe
It is safe to say that “going green” is no longer just a trend. People are concerned about preserving and protecting the earth for future generations. They are looking for ways to stay green, and finding it is even possible to stay green to the very end. Green burials are feasible and gaining [...]

A Greener Season

by Cathy Robinson
Concerned about our environment? Here are some low cost, easy and sustainable ideas for a ‘Green’ Holiday season.
Buy Local
Purchase your Thanksgiving meal from local farmers and feel the gratitude of supporting a family close to home. While you’re picking up some local products, why not buy extra and freeze or can for a delicious treat over [...]

Winter Composting

When you hear the words winter composting, your first thought might be, “WHY?” Here are just a few reasons for keeping an outdoor compost bin active through the cold months:
• Helpful if you need (or simply want) to deal with large quantities of waste materials – more than can be handled by a typical indoor [...]

Green Kids

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Use “Green Bucks”
For older children, the concept of “Green Bucks” helps teach them about two types of green: money and the environment. Similar to an allowance, Green Bucks are given to kids as a reward, but instead of being used on the latest toy, they represent a set amount of money that is donated in [...]

Is Fresh Air “Drying Up” as a Drying Alternative?

by Heather Rothbauer-Wanish

It seems like almost a signal to the seasons. Spring arrives, followed by the heated sun rays of summer; clothes are hung on clotheslines to soak up the air and wonderfully long daylight hours.
Not only does hanging clothes outside save the electricity that would have been used by the dryer, the clothes come [...]

What Does Your CO2 Footprint Look Like?

by Abby Czeskleba
These days, it’s difficult to turn on the television without hearing a story about the adverse effects of global warming. Of course, newspapers are no exception. We read new studies and findings about global warming all the time. Meteorologists even use global warming to explain strange seasonal weather patterns. While there’s more than [...]

Local Lumber

by Paul Fischer
My Great Uncle Walter was an experienced woodworker, and the first to show me the magic of transforming a rough board with a planer: three razor knives spinning 10,000 rpms to reveal wood grain with fancy names like bird’s eye, blister, curl, dimple, fiddleback, flame, ghost, quilted, spalted, fleck, and ray.
Growing right here [...]

Could You Go A Whole Year Buying Nothing New?

November 26 and 27, 2010: Buy Nothing Day (BND) is an international day of protest against consumerism
Every Holiday season Karen Heimdahal used to love to join the throngs of people hitting the stores and sales for that perfect present. But a few years ago, a light bulb went off and she drastically changed her shopping [...]

Green E-Waste Options Abound

By Chris Solberg, One Source Imaging | Did you recently acquire a new computer, monitor, television, cell phone, mp3 player, printer, inkjet cartridge, toner cartridge? Is your old one sitting in the garage or cluttering up your closet?
With all this clutter, you may be tempted to simply throw it out with your garbage. However, there [...]

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