September is just around the corner and many of us already have the school supply list in hand, ready to get our kids ready for the school year and off on the right foot. This year, how about making a lighter environmental footprint in the process and pack their backpacks with environmentally friendly school supplies? [...]

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Make This School Year A Little Greener

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Furniture may be less expensive for consumers to buy these days, but the environmental impact it has is not so good. Along with deforestation, modern furniture also often contains highly toxic chemicals, which are poisonous to the earth as well as the consumers that buy them. For those of us who want to keep our [...]

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Teaching kids the importance of living an eco-friendly life is easy. There is no need to bog down or scare your child with environmental facts if you don’t want to. Your child may be to young to understand some of the facts and statistics anyways. Kids don’t have to know they are protecting their health [...]

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Family Resolution: Start Composting

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If you want to have an environmentally friendly healthy garden one of the most important and first things to do is compost. There are so many benefits to composting. Not only does composting help reduce landfill waste, but it also improves soil structure, texture, and aeration.

Composting also promotes soil fertility, stimulates healthy root development [...]

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If your situation is like mine you probably don’t have a lot of support or encouragement from the people you know to live an environmentally friendly life. Because you are probably the only one in your family, your neighborhood or your community that lives green it is difficult to stay motivated to continue living a [...]

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A newbie gardener on a budget really can’t afford to buy
tools, seeds, soil, etc on his garden especially if he doesn’t even know how to
really begin gardening. What if his crop fails? The money spent on the garden
would be wasted and he can’t afford to pay someone to teach him to garden. So
how does a [...]

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Earth Day is just around the corner. In case you don’t know the date, it is April 22nd, 2008. This year find new ways to celebrate Earth Day, but remember living green is better practiced daily instead of just once a year. Look below for some Earth Day Tips.

1. If you don’t have curbside recycling take [...]

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Contrary to popular belief used tires still have a long and very useful life long after they are deemed too worn to roll on the road. With a little imagination and a sharp tool to cut through rubber an old used tire can be recycled into anything. Take a look at the unique ways tires [...]

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If the weather outside is
still too cold for gardening, seedling can be started indoors. Just about any
container (milk jug, liter soda bottle, etc.) can be cut open, punctured with a
few holes at the bottom and turned into a seedling pot. Unfortunately when it
comes time to transplanting the seedlings to new ground or larger pots
disturbing the [...]

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My kids get really excited about Valentine’s Day. In fact,
my youngest daughter is so ready to celebrate it she is drawing hearts
everywhere and already talking about her Valentines party. If your kids are
like mine show them how much you love them and help them craft gifts for their
loves ones. Take a look at some of [...]

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