Ecological Landscaping and Tree Planting
Spring is the perfect time to rethink your gardens and yards: Less mowing? More pollinator plants? Food production? Native trees? Fruit trees or even a small food forest? Even if […]
Sustainable Household Goods
Many of the household goods and cleaning products we use daily contain chemicals that are harmful to the environment and use unnecessary amounts of plastic packaging. By buying from some […]
Switch to Induction Cooking
There are multiple ways to “green up” your cooking appliances. Electric stoves, particularly induction ones, make a big difference for health, safety, the environment and climate. If you currently use […]
Monitor My Electricity Usage
How Can We Reduce Our Home Energy Use? Smart energy conservation starts with knowing how much energy you are using, and what for. Find energy ‘vampires‘. They are devices like […]
Change to LED Lighting
Did you know that lighting accounts for about ten percent of the electricity use in the average U.S. home? All the more reason to switch to LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes). […]
Buy food from a local farm
Why? Joining a Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) or buying food at a local farmstand are wonderful ways to eat healthy, freshly harvested, seasonal, and locally sourced food while making the […]
Create a Native Plant Garden
Native plants are those that occur naturally in a region in which they evolved. Native plants provide many eco-friendly benefits. They attract birds, butterflies and local wildlife. They support pollinators and […]
Avoid Destructive Mosquito Spraying
Broad spraying of insecticides for mosquitoes is both ineffective and harmful to the environment. It has been noted by leading entomologists that fogging for adult mosquitoes is ineffective and there […]
Curbside Composting
In the US, we throw out roughly 60 millions tons of food each year, not only wasting valuable resources (food and organic fertilizer) but also generating methane, a gas with […]