This is really great - CBC and The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos in partnership with Cisco have taken on the challenge of mobilizing Canadians to do One Million Acts Of Green.
Even the smallest changes can make huge differences in the environmental impact of our daily lives, and that is exactly the point that One Million [...]
I have to admit that our family hasn’t been too great with remembering to take our reusable bags to the grocery store with us, so we always end up with a ton of plastic bags. I came across a site yesterday that shows you how to crochet your plastic bags into cool reusable [...]
When making your life and home more environmentally friendly it is also a good idea to look at the habits of your children. Not only can you find ways in which their toys and games can become more ‘green’, but you can also help to teach them about the importance of eco-friendly methods from an [...]
I absolutely love GoGreenTube.com, a video hosting site like YouTube except it’s for “Green” videos which is where I found the following video that I think is worth a watch. It’s great to see younger kids involved and here you’ll see 9-year-old Carrick shows the ways one family made their home more energy efficient.
While [...]
What does being a Green Certified Site mean?
The carbon footprint of air and automobile transportation is widely known, but few people are aware that the electricity generation required for information and communication techologies (ICT) is now responsible for 2% of global CO2 emissions, exceeding the emissions of the entire aviation industry. With CO2Stats it [...]
A huge thank you to Save Earth - Save Humanity for this awesome award
It’s now my turn to pass this fun award on to 10 other blogs.. so the winners are:
Green Mommy Guide
Consumer Queen
Penny Pinching Diva
Trapped In The Office
Frugal Wahms Talk Radio
The Mom Buzz
Forced Green
Green Your Decor
Condo Blues
Sisterly Savings
The rules of this award [...]
Controversy - gotta love it. NOT! There are no “ifs-ands-or-buts” about it, fake Christmas trees have to go!
Artificial trees consume significant energy and petroleum based materials to produce them, where most Christmas trees are cut down from Christmas Tree Farms, and are not affecting the Forests.
Several known carcinogens, including dioxin, ethylene dichloride [...]
In honor of the rapidly approaching holiday season, I am putting together a free download full of eco friendly holiday ideas, tips, crafts, traditions, articles etc., and am looking for submissions!
Full credit will be given to all submissions, so if you run an eco friendly website you’ll receive a link back and can even give [...]
Not only is it an eco-friendly design, but Flock Eco Edition! is committed to give back by donating 10% of search proceeds to the environmental charity of choice, as deemed by the voting of the community of Flock’s Eco-Edition users at the end of this year. Flock makes money when people search through the browser. So the more you search via Flock Eco-Edition, the more they’re committing to give back.
EVO is a very cool site that is committed to making environmentally friendly products available to the average consumer. From baby bottles to electric cars, EVO has it all, and they include a special rating system - very product on EVO is assigned a number of leaves to represent [...]
