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Earth Day Rx: Slow Global Warming by Stopping Junk Mail

March 22, 2008 – 11:30 am

Junk Mail Consumes More Energy than 2.8 Million Cars
Ferndale, Mich. — With growing public concern about climate change and the health of the planet, 41pounds.org offers a quick, easy and effective way that everyone can make a difference: stop junk mail! The energy used for junk mail each year creates more greenhouse gas emissions than [...]

By Kelly Mead | Posted in Charities, Community Issues, Everyday Options, Helathy (green) Ideas, In The News, Press Release | Comments (0)

Make Your Landscaping Green

March 10, 2008 – 7:50 am

Green or natural landscaping ,also known as native gardening , is when you use indigenous plants in your residential or commercial landscaped gardens. These plants can include local ones such as grasses, ground-cover, wildflowers, shrubs, and trees, as well as using boulders, rocks and locally found material to border theses plantings. Making the [...]

By Kelly Mead | Posted in Composting, Designing Healthy, EPA, Gardening, Getting Healthy, Helathy (green) Ideas, green building, green landscaping | Comments (1)

Why Not Traditional Lanscaping

March 5, 2008 – 8:19 am

Some  problems with traditional lanscaping are water pollution, air pollution, noisew pollution, consumption of our natural resources, produces solid waste, harmful to health and safety, declining biodeiversity, flooding, and to top it off it’s labor and cost intensive.
Homeowners over-apply pesticides and fertilizers often more than that of farmers. Additionaly people dump excess pesticides on the ground, [...]

By Kelly Mead | Posted in Designing Healthy, Getting Healthy, Helathy (green) Ideas, farming, green landscaping | Comments (0)

The Green Side Of Business

February 21, 2008 – 1:45 pm

By : Jon Caldwell
For entrepreneurs, you get to a point where you will finally decide on what business to run in line with the green standards and requirements the world is carefully setting out today. But before a green business can fully operate and run smoothly, the source of energy may be something that they [...]

By admin | Posted in Editorial, Getting Healthy, Green jobs, Helathy (green) Ideas, green business | Comments (0)