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Taking a Shower the Green Way: 3 Simple Tips to Make Showering More Environmentally Friendly

Green living extends to our daily shower habits. If you think about it, we use a lot of water and other resources when we take a shower each day. In fact, roughly 25% of indoor household water consumption goes to taking shower; a 10-minute shower uses about 40 gallons whereas a bath takes around 37 gallons. I never even realized just how much water I was using bathing and showering until I took an environmental studies course when I was in college. So, as it would seem, living a green … [Read more...]

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4 Spring Cleaning Tips To Keep Your Home Toxin-Free

Even with the first day of spring just a scant eleven days behind us, some people’s thoughts have almost certainly turned to spring cleaning. Here are a few easy ways to help protect your family from dangerous toxins and go a little greener through your spring cleaning. Household Cleaning Supplies … [Read more...]

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7 Uses For Fruit and Veggies (Besides Eating and Composting Them)

Love your daily dose of fruit and vegetables? Including fruit and veggies in your diet each day means you will end up with quite the pile of rinds and scraps. Before you throw those in your compost pile or trash can, why not get a little extra use out of them? … [Read more...]

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3 Ways to Air Dry Your Laundry In Any Space (or Any Season)

Is your dryer just as loud and energy taxing as mine? Call me crazy, but why not use the natural breeze to dry your clothes? Small things that are a part of living greener often times result in being labeled a hippie...even if only playfully so.Personally, I embrace the hippie identity...to a point. One thing that I just can’t give up, however, is having clean clothes. I think we can all appreciate each other not reeking from being too “natural”, if you know what I mean.When … [Read more...]

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3 Cleaning Products You Can Make at Home

Green living can mean a number of different things. It can range from learning how to make homemade solar panels to using organic fertilizer in your yard and garden. Green living also has to do with conserving water, energy costs and using those commercial cleaners that are full toxic chemicals that could hurt our animals and children. Yet, we keep using those cleaners. But maybe the only reason we do this is because we aren’t aware of how many natural cleaning solutions we actually … [Read more...]

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Carnival of the Green # 213

213 weeks ago the Carnival of the Green began with just 2 guys and over a pint of beer in London. Now it bounces around from green blog to green blog around the world. Last week it made its stop at the wonderful Enviroblog. This week its tents raise right here over The Fun Times Guide to Living Green. This week's submissions were truly some incredible ones. In the following 17 stories, you'll find everything from info on how to plan a green burial to natural home remedy tips to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Green News, Home & Garden Tagged With: animals, burial, cleaning, coffee, dogs, energy savings, food, gadgets, global warming, green events, health, reusing / repurposing, toys, twitter, vegetarian, winter, work

Clean Coal Is A Myth, But At Least Coal Can Get You Clean

Have you been a naughty boy or girl this year? If so, you may find a lump of coal in your stocking come Christmas morning.Fortunately for you, these lumps of coal will help scrub away the dirtiness of the past year.How?Because they're actually all-natural handmade soaps from some really creative Etsy-ers. … [Read more...]

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12 Easy Ways to Green Your Turkey Day

The holiday season begins with Thanksgiving...but I'm already seeing more Christmas propaganda than Thanksgiving. Geez. In our society, this is usually a time of excess, though it doesn't have to be. Be sure to think green as you celebrate Thanksgiving and the harvest. Here are 12 fun and ridiculously easy tips that I've put into practice as I celebrate the bountiful harvest. … [Read more...]

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How to Make Cleaning Products From Things Already In Your Cupboard

If you've ever really paid attention to what a bottle of laundry detergent or window cleaner costs, you know that overall consumers are spending big money for cleaning products these days. Greening your cleaning habits is an awesome step, but what if you could make your own cleaning products for pennies, rather than purchasing over-the-top priced cleaning items? As if saving money isn't enough to make you stand up and take notice, how about this: Making your own cleaning products from … [Read more...]

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6 Ways to Tell If That Product You Just Bought Really Is Environmentally Friendly

We live in a world where most of us are becoming quite concerned about the state of our environment.We know that our overuse of energy and natural resources is becoming a real problem. Landfills are overflowing, and our air and water sources are becoming seriously polluted. While there are things being done to help rectify these problems we don't really know if they have been done in time. Even worse, if the damage has already been done, is it too late to go back to the pristine state our … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Home & Garden, Simple Ways To Go Green Tagged With: cleaning, clothing and fashion, greenwashing, shopping