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Eco Friendly Living Tips: Conserving Songbirds

According to the U.S. Humane Society, one in three American households owns a pet cat. Whatever your opinion on them, by that statistic it’s clear that these pets are a prominent fixture in American homes. They’re entertaining, decent companions, and require less maintenance than dogs, but...

For Refuse Alone, Disposable Brooms Aren’t Earth Friendly Cleaning Products

The commercials air during any hour of television on any station. Brands vary, but the setup hardly ever changes. A woman confronted with a whole house of dust: the task is presented as daunting, the simple solution (to just buckle down and wipe off shelves with a wet rag), impossible. Then the...

Are Your Kids Eating out of Green Friendly Products?

A healthy meal doesn’t just adhere to the food pyramid anymore. It’s not only about eating vegetables; it’s not even about eating organic vegetables. Nutrition matters, but so do the containers that fit into lunch boxes. A healthy meal is chemical-free, which is why you need green friendly...

Eco Friendly Soaps Aren’t Enough: Water-Saving Tips Make Bathing Even Greener

Decades ago, Sesame Street aired a split screen cartoon of a boy brushing his teeth: as he left the faucet on, a fish in a nearby pond was running perilously low on water. It’s been around so long that most Americans have seen it, but in this country water remains to be seen as an expendable...

Pure Natural Products May Get Some Governmental Protection

Genetically modified organisms have been in laboratories for decades and on the shelves of supermarkets since the mid-nineties. On paper, the concept seems wise, even admirable: tinkering with the genetic code of crops to make them more resilient to draught, quicker to grow, or simply larger to...

Eco Friendly Living Tips: Just Bike

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that choosing a bike over a car makes a major contribution to eco friendly living. By lowering pollution, roadway congestion, and obesity rates, the decision to power your own transportation does great things for our planet. Those benefits are intuitive, but a new...

Recycled Rags As Earth Friendly Cleaning Products

These days, even the major paper companies are releasing eco friendly products. Whether they’re made with recycled materials, from sustainable forests, or just packaged to produce less waste, very non-green corporations are trying to enter the green market. Their motives might not be in the...

How Often Should You Be Using Eco Friendly Shampoo?

A hundred years ago, even people in major metropolises considered washing their hair a sporadic luxury. Women never shampooed their hair on their own; they waited for their monthly trip to the salon to get it washed and then set. In the long span of history, it wasn’t till after the 1950s that...

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