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Top 10 Environmentally Friendly Cleaning Products for the Green Home

Posted on December 14, 2009 | 4 Comments

10 Ways to Get Green and Keep the Home Clean
Environmentally Safe Home Cleaning Products
It starts with an idea and soon becomes a lifestyle. Going green is easier than you think, even if you don’t “own” your home, and happen to reside in a massive apartment complex. You may not be able to renovate to LEED standards, but you can certainly offer your domicile a few great maintenance products, that will extend a friendly hand to the environment.

Check out this list of products and tips to help sanitize your living space, while offering the ability to heighten all of your home aesthetics while establishing your gratitude to the environment. Continue reading →

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6 More Easy Ways to Make a Positive Impact on the Environment

Posted on December 11, 2009 | Leave a comment

Six Simple Ways to Make Your Life More Green
The Green Environment

1.) Re-use Gift Wrapping Paper
Unwrap gifts with a little concern, or teach your little ones a new environmental lesson before they make a mess with the ripping into birthday or holiday packaging. The amount of paper that could be saved is astronomical, if each of us were to recycle wrapping paper from just a few gifts each year.

Get a bag or a box, and start saving bows, ribbons and neatly folded, carefully removed gift wrapping paper. No one will know the difference. Trust me. And if they do, you have the perfect opportunity to bring up a conversation about conservation, without sounding overbearing. They’ll feel great to have helped out without having done anything. Continue reading →

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Green MBA Programs: Sustainability MBA Degrees

Posted on December 8, 2009 | 2 Comments

Information on Green Master’s Programs in the United States
Green University Programs: Green MBA Programs

With all of the attention being focused on the green economy, on green jobs and on the general drive towards becoming more “green” in our lives, there has been a push at the university level for the development of educational training programs and graduate level degrees in sustainability. Thus, the birth of the “Green MBA” degree, a composite master’s degree that often spans multiple university departments, including architecture, business and marketing, environmental studies, and more.

Online college classes are in high demand these days, since many people want the flexibility that online classes offer. In our technological society it is possible to complete most of your education online; all you need is a computer with an Internet connection. Many colleges and universities offer online programs, some of which combine the traditional classroom with the online classroom, and some which are completely online. Continue reading →

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4 Easy Ways to Make a Positive Impact on the Environment

Posted on December 4, 2009 | Leave a comment

How Can I Make Simple Changes That Positively Impact the Environment?
Green Forest

It’s almost time for the New Year. Again. Many of us decide to make changes in our lives around this time — that’s no surprise. Often, the resolutions we create for ourselves are dramatic, powerful, even overwhelming. Losing lots of weight, going vegetarian, quitting smoking — we all have our Ace in the hole. Too many years pass, however, when we lose sight of these lofty goals and before the end of the first quarter, we’re already off our game and back to smoking, back to sleeping in, off the daily scheme of going to the gym.

This isn’t a post about how to stay on track with your goals. This isn’t about making smaller steps in between milestones or pinning up a huge calendar to your wall and filling it up with black X’s every time you complete another day on the plus side.
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How to Make Thanksgiving Green in 8 Steps

Posted on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment

Making Thanksgiving a Green Holiday This Year
green thanksgiving

With the big turkey holiday just a week away, maybe it isn’t such a bad idea to consider just how such a potentially gluttonous American holiday might be made more green. After all, any occasion that puts such weight on being thankful for what we have, can easily include being thankful for the air we breathe, the planet we inhabit, the resources we have to use and preserve. Continue reading →

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5 More Ways to Go Green in the Yard

Posted on September 28, 2009 | 2 Comments

Get Your Garden and Yard Even More Green

We’ve already figured out you probably have a yard, and we’ve already discussed 5 practical tips to helping homeowners make their gardening efforts a little bit more green. If you’re not quite satisfied, or coming back for even more ideas about making the backyard more sustainable and eco-friendly, then read on below for some more valuable information.

Use Weed Alternatives

Instead of chemicals, try applying yet another fantastic byproduct of corn. Maybe the Native Americans were really on to something with their self-sustaining ways? Yeah, there’s no maybe about it. In this case, organic corn gluten will do wonders to help prevent weeds, especially when you couple your effort with keeping your grass at a 3-4 inch length.
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