Composting your kitchen and garden waste is a great way to reduce the amount of waste you dispose of in your rubbish bin.
Caring For Christmas Trees
Christmas trees are a long time symbol of the Christmas season, but improperly cared for Christmas trees are unlikely to make it through the entire holiday season. Properly cared for fresh cut Christmas trees, on the other hand, can last several weeks.
First and foremost, the key to long-lasting Christmas trees is to give them plenty of water. Many people have developed outlandish concoctions for Christmas trees, ranging from mixing things such as bleach, sugar, syrup, 7-…
Things to Check for Pest Control
Things to Check for Pest Control
Trash Talks Best Tip Picks for 2005
Dave and Lillian Brummet, authors of the book Trash Talk, offer a free service called Tip of the Month where visitors can learn new reduction and reuse ideas that will save money for the household and office on their website (http://www.sunshinecable.com/~drumit). Listed below are the favorite Tip Picks of 2005.
Foreclosures Caused by Rising Energy Costs
Almost daily, you hear news reports about the increasing numbers of homes in foreclosure. What you dont hear reported is how increasing energy costs are so often the cause of this devastating problem.
Holiday Decorating Ideas And The Environment
Have you thought about how your holiday decorating affects the environment? What can you do about your holiday decorating to improve your happiness and at the same time be kind to the environment?
The good news, taking action to decorate your home and office for the holidays, while keeping respect for the environment, makes your workload easier.
Conquer holiday stress with simplicity. Keep your decorations to a minimum. Simple holiday decorating makes your life easier t…
How can you save money on your grocery bill?
An article showing you how to save 30% – 40% on your grocery bill.
How to buy a green Fridge Freezer
Many items that we take for granted in the home have undergone major design changes in recent years. Our understanding of those changes has sometimes failed to keep pace.
Take the humble fridge freezer, for example. How should you go about examining the features of the various models that are available.
Extend the Life of Books and Magazines
Promote reading in your community, reduce clutter around your home and your contribution of waste to the landfill, save a buck and benefit a charity while you are at it…
To Be Successful, You Have To Be Healthy-Part 1
If you were to stop a noontime crowd on the street and ask them to name their most valuable asset, most wouldn’t hesitate to identify their homes as the greatest asset they own. Others may nominate a well-funded 401(k) or a shiny sports car as their most valuable asset.
If so, they would be overlooking an asset that came into their possession the day they were born. It’s an asset that many of us under appreciate in our callow youth but can see how it pays great dividends a…
Mushrooms Glow In The Dark
With the arrival of Japans rainy season, a mysterious type of green, glow-in-the-dark mushroom begins to sprout in Wakayama prefecture. The Mycena lux-coeli mushrooms, known locally as shii no tomobishi-dake (literally, chinquapin glow mushrooms), sprout from fallen chinquapin trees. As they grow, a chemical reaction involving luciferin (a light-emitting pigment contained within the mushrooms) occurs, causing them to glow a ghostly green.
Cleanness In Excess Can Cause Allergy
About two billion people have allergic complications, according to estimates of the American Academy of Allergy and Immunology. Not any other illness, at any moment of history, affected as much people. Specialists start to face it as an epidemic. Only in the United States, each year 5 000 people die suffocated during asthma crises, and 90 million Americans deal daily with the discomfort of rhinitis and dermatitis, the more common allergic varieties. Finding the cure or the ca…