Guest Post: Hit the Slopes While Still Protecting the Environment

For the skiing, snowboarding and other wintertime enthusiasts or those who just want to take in the scenery and refreshing air that a ski area provides, there are ways to make a winter trip to the slopes enjoyable and beneficial for the environment. You may not think that a day or weekend on the slopes [...]

Guest Post: When to Replenish Your Stock of De-Icing Salt

Unlike the previous couple of years winter has, so far, been reasonably kind to us. Indeed experts have even been telling us that 2011 was the second mildest Christmas since records began. This run of unseasonably warm weather has meant that the council gritters, and their mountains of de-icing salt, have barely seen any action [...]

Guest Post: Family Cycling in the UK

Here in the UK we aren’t lucky enough to have the cycling culture that some of our European neighbours enjoy. The bike lanes of Amsterdam are famous and Paris has about 10,000 state-owned bikes circulating around, free for anyone to use for the first half hour. Some British cities are making real efforts to introduce [...]

Guest Post: Hosting an Eco-Friendly Holiday Party

The holidays can certainly be hectic, but if part of your seasonal tradition includes hosting a party for your closest family and friends, you’re not likely to let the hustle and bustle of shopping and shipping, cooking and eating, and hanging decorations stop you from doing the one thing you really love during the holidays.  [...]

Guest Post: Green Ways to Pack for a Road Trip to a Sports Game

To (kind of) paraphrase Kermit the Frog, it ain’t easy going green. The effort involves more than turning off a light or placing a brick in the toilet tank. Any devoted sports fan knows that a road trip to a game is a must at least once or twice a season. You can go green [...]

Guest Post: 3 Great Indoor Activities for the Whole Family…Even Grandma and Grandpa!

Game-makers over the years have done a remarkable job of catering to the various generations of players. Young children enjoy educational games from infancy, and their parents enjoy adult games for parties. The middle generation, heavily influenced by technology, find entertainment in computers and video-games displaying graphics that match the latest trends in hi-def. As [...]

Guest Post: Eco-Friendly Pursuits for Pregnant Women

Some people think that when pregnancy occurs, women suddenly become incapable of leading the active lifestyles they had before they entered into this “delicate” state.  In truth, there are some precautions that must be taken to ensure the health and safety of a fetus as it grows (no heavy lifting, excessive bouncing, and so on), [...]

Guest Post: How to Make Your Own Christmas Roman Blinds

This project is a bit indulgent, but if you want to redecorate for Christmas these roman blinds will offer you a cheap and inexpensive way of doing so, It will also be a lot greener than buying readymade blinds: There are three ways to mount Roman blinds: but for simplicity’s sake we will look at [...]

Day 4 TGF Xmas Gift List

Todays post is slightly different.  It is not a gift suggestion, but a creative suggestion, let me know your thoughts on this and if you wish to contribute to this style, let me know. Hello, I am Maggy visiting from Red Ted Art.  I am a mum of two and regularly get crafty with my [...]

Guest Post: How to recycle unwanted items in the home and make extra cash

What do lofts, sheds, garages and the area underneath beds have in common? They are often filled with junk – household items that are no longer in use for one reason or another. Whilst junk usually makes its way to landfill at some point, recycling is always a possibility. This can generate a little extra [...]

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