Tag Archives: green living

Ditch the Lawnmower. Get a Reel One.

Reel Mower

Nope, that’s not a typo. You may not be familiar with the term reel mower, but it’s the correct name for a self-propelled mower without a motor (gas, electric, or otherwise). And no, this isn’t anything like the mowers your father and grandfather have told [...]

20 Simple Ways to Save Money on Your Utility Bill

20 Simple Ways to Save Money on Your Utility Bill

This post is #2 in the Growing Green series in honor of Earth Day on April 22. You can find other great posts related to SAVING green this week on these blogs: i Dream of Clean Broccoli Cupcake The Frugal Seed   This week’s Growing [...]

5 Simple Tips to Green Your Backyard

Rain Barrel

This post is part of a series in honor of Earth Day on April 22 - Simple Tips for Going Green. You can find other great posts related to going green on these blogs: i Dream of Clean Broccoli Cupcake The Frugal Seed   I [...]

25 Tips for Going Green

25 Tips for Going Green

I believe in caring for the earth we live on. I believe we are called to be good stewards of what we’re given. To have authority over the plants and animals around us, but I like to think of it as a mutually beneficial relationship [...]

5 Reasons to Eat Local

Local Produce

The ‘locavore’ movement has been gaining attention over the last few years. Plenty of people have documented their challenge to eat only local, all the time. Some may even call it a food trend (imagine that), but there are heaps of reasons why eating food [...]

5 Natural Sunscreens

Bethells Beach, West Auckland, New Zealand

I don’t usually wear sunscreen. You might already know that sunscreen doesn’t protect you from skin cancer (since the sun doesn’t cause skin cancer in the first place). But if you didn’t know that sunscreen blocks your vitamin D production, contains toxic chemicals, and can [...]

Homemade Cleaning Products

homemade-cleaning-products

This isn’t exactly the time of year for spring cleaning, but as I’m preparing to move out of my apartment at the end of the month, making sure everything is spic and span has found it’s way higher on the to-do list. But you won’t [...]