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9 budget-friendly ways to make an eco friendly house - from replacing plastic with natural materials to using eco friendly cleaning products & 7 other green home tips.

Plan ahead how you'll be watering plants on vacation when you're not there. My best ideas: 2 simple ways to water plants while away + 3 DIY solutions you might want to try.

Recycling Fun

You can make recycling a lot more fun and less of a chore at home - for both adults AND kids! These 5 unique recycling ideas will make things a lot easier.

Uh oh, you're in the checkout line and realize you forgot your reusable bags? What to do? Take the plastic bags, then reuse them in one of these 11 fun ways

We work so hard to rid our lives of plastic bags, why not do the same for our pets' lives too?

The Coca Cola company may seem to be an unlikely candidate for the greenest sponsor of the 2010 Olympics, but wait until you see how far they went to be just that.

Eco-friendly toy trucks that WON'T harm your youngster.

Our review of the Lunchsense lunch box. It's an eco-friendly, lead free, BPA free, and vinyl free lunch box that you're gonna love!

Think you're safe by getting rid of your #7 plastic nalgene bottles? Maybe not. #5 plastic has been found to possibly be VERY dangerous itself...and it's everywhere!

New BPA free bottle from CamelBak! Hooray for no more fake estrogens in our water!

Publix makes living green ridiculously easy by offering reusable shopping bags for .99 cents!

Can heating your food in a plastic container really give you cancer? You may be surprised with what you discover.

With stainless steel and new biodegradable plastics such as PLA available, why would anyone choose to use traditional plastics? The pros & cons of PLA plastic products

Ever wonder what you can do to make a difference? What are some things you can do to save the environment? Here are 25 things you can do to help put an end to global warming.

With San Francisco banning plastic bags and Ikea charging for them, plastic shopping bags must be pure evil right? Here are the pros & cons of plastic bags.

water-bottles

Filtering your water or drinking water straight from the tap only solves half the problem of consuming bottled water. The other half is that we most likely still put it in an unsafe, non-renewable, plastic container. Let's find out what you should use if you must use plastic.

Did you know that bottled water isn't any more healthy than your tap water? And - get this - it's packaged in a crude oil derivative. YUCK!