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5 Tips To Reduce Your Household Expenses


Every month, when you analyse your monthly household expenditures, do you notice an increase as compared to previous months? It may just be ten dollars or a hundred dollars but it is definitely on the rise.  If you are not paying attention, it can surprise you one day when suddenly you don’t have enough to pay the [...]

Renewable Energy Alternatives


Both the scientific community and everyday people around the globe are diligently looking for alternatives to the fossil fuels that have driven the world’s energy needs for hundreds of years.
Everyone knows that those fuels are nonrenewable and send tons of pollutants into the earth’s fragile atmosphere every second. Everyone also knows that we simply cannot [...]

What is Green?


“green” is a generic term used to describe something that has a benign or moderate effect on the environment.  It follows that a green product is one that causes less harm to the environment than other similar products.  Environmental impacts from a product actually begins prior to manufacturing, with the harvesting, extraction or processing of [...]

Who Said Green Living was Hard?


Just because something in your life has become automatic does not mean that its replacement will be difficult.  There will, of course, be a transition and a period of adjustment as you turn bad habits into better ones.  But changes do not have to be immediate and broad, they can be gradual and small and [...]

Don’t Just Recycle - Reuse


It is great that you recycle your used paper products.  But how many of those items could you use again before you recycle them?
So you like your paper shopping bags?  Be sure to re-use them as trach can liners, lunch bags, bags to take old clothes to GoodWill, etc.
Plastic shopping bags often can be returned to [...]