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Guest Post: Celebrate Holidays the Eco-Friendly Way

September 1, 2010 by Brenda  
Filed under Featured Posts, Green Living, Guest Posts

For those of you who like to be super-organised, here is our first post of 2010 thinking ahead for the upcoming holidays. Celebrate Holidays the Eco-Friendly Way For most people, the holidays are an all-out, over-the-top, smorgasbord of spending, eating, and yes, throwing away.  Sadly, the season that fills us with hope, joy, and resolutions [...]

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Guest Post: Eco Dating

Eco-Dating: Finding Your Green Mate It’s not easy being green, especially when you’re trying to find someone special who has a similar desire to save the planet.  Between blind dates and online services, you’re beginning to feel like a hamster running in a wheel, doing the same thing over and over but getting no closer [...]

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Guest Post: Re-using old roller blinds

I have 2 doors on my pottery painting studio which must have been their since the building was built. So consequently when I tried to get roller blinds to fit last year I found the normal standard size was too narrow to cover the windows. I pull them down on an evening when we closed [...]

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Guest Post: How to Get Fresh Produce Without a Farmer’s Market

Many of us are lucky enough to live in areas that at least support a seasonal farmer’s market (and some of us can even get our produce from local growers year-round).  But if you live in an urban area, the middle of nowhere, or a climate that includes winter, you may find your access to [...]

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Guest Post: Learn how to budget effectively

August 12, 2010 by Brenda  
Filed under Family, Guest Posts

Budgeting is an effective way of monitoring your finances. It allows you to be fully in control of how much you spend and how much you save. Budgeting makes it easier for you to get out of debt and helps relieve the pressure of your monthly outgoings. Start your budget When starting your budget, first [...]

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Guest Post: How Ed Begley Jr Stays Green!

August 10, 2010 by Brenda  
Filed under Featured Posts, Green Living, Guest Posts

Ed Begley, Jr. is a recognizable face in the world of television, film, and eco-awareness.  His new hit reality show, Living With Ed, documents the ventures of Begley and his wife Rachelle as they explore the world of eco-friendly, going green living.  In the beginning of the first season, audiences watched as Ed attempted to [...]

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Guest Post: Recycle, Renovate and Revive!

August 9, 2010 by Brenda  
Filed under Featured Posts, Green Living, Guest Posts

Recycle, Renovate and Revive – your old furniture gets a facelift By Katherine Bond Ever caught yourself looking round your home and wishing you could change the decor?  The slightly murky looking colour of your once pristine carpet and the saggy but comfy sofa that may have seen better days are beginning to make you [...]

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Guest Post: Wanna Make a Big Impact With a Small (Carbon) Footprint?

7 Ways to Create a Greener Environment at Your College Campus Widespread coverage of the BP oil spill, disappearing coral reefs, and the plight of polar bears doomed by diminishing ice caps may have left you shaking your head over the waste, the destruction and an uncertain future. You may be wondering how you, one [...]

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Guest Post: Green up your Groceries

July 31, 2010 by Brenda  
Filed under Featured Posts, Food & Drink, Guest Posts

Everyone who has even an inkling of the idea behind an eco-friendly lifestyle knows that the best ways to go green at the grocery store are by bringing your own reusable bags (plastic goes into landfills and paper, while partially recycled, is still felling trees) and buying organic foods.  However, buying reusable bags carries an [...]

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Guest Post: Recycling in Norway

July 25, 2010 by Brenda  
Filed under Green Living, Guest Posts

I have lived outside the UK for the whole of, as I call it, “the wake up age”.   When you turn from being an irresponsible adult into a proper adult.  Where you get it, being a parent, relationships, consideration, children, life, death, and of course the environment.   Where you start to take note of the [...]

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