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New Wave Enviro Products Giveaway Winner!

We have a winner for the New Wave Enviro Products Giveaway! The winner is comment #84 Congratulations Lisa! Please contact me within 48 hours to claim your prize! Thank you all for participating! We have more exciting green giveaways planned for 2010 so check back again!

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Green New Year’s Eve Party!

Are you excited about bringing in the new year? I am. 2010 is going to be a great year for me. And I am going to celebrate it BIG with a party at my house. So, of course, it’s going to be a “Green Party”! This is what I am planning to do: 1.Use eVite to invite people. Easy. Quick. Very green. 2. Serve organic champagne. There are so many [...]

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Midway: a message from the Gyre by Chris Jordan

These are some of the photographs in a series called “Midway: a message from the Gyre” taken by a photographer, Chris Jordan from a tiny island 2000 miles away from the nearest continent in the middle of the Pacific. Here is a slide show of all the photos by Chris Jordan *All photos by Chris Jordan

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Top word and phrase for the decade 2000-2009

Top word: global warming (“Sustainable” is 22nd on the list) Top Phrase: Climate Change Need I say more? Source: languagemonitor

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Green tips for after Christmas

Now that you are done with Christmas parties, family gatherings, meals, and exchanging gifts, think about these tips for greening your after- Christmas clean up. Recycle your Christmas tree Recycle Christmas lights if they are broken and if you don’t have LED lights, buy them now (they are probably on sale) for next year Recycle old batteries Buy rechargeable batteries Cut out gift tags from Christmas cards you don’t want [...]

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Merry Christmas!

We had a blizzard-like condition last weekend and while it would have been nicer to have the snow on Christmas, I loved it nevertheless.  Snow still covers the streets and it’s cold outside, like Christmas should be. I never had the opportunity to go away to a hot spot for Christmas holiday so, to me, Christmas has always meant below freezing temperatures and waiting anxiously for the snow. For this [...]

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Green is life, optimism and our future

As 2009 comes to an end, I was reflecting on the year past. Blogging about green living has been one of my biggest accomplishments and the one I have enjoyed immensely. While, keeping my head buried in green sand, blogging about it made me to think about, well, being green and what it really means. We know what it means in the environmental sense but what does it really mean?  [...]

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“Twas the night before Eco-Christmas…”

The original title: “The night before an eco-etsy christmas” by FashionGreenTBags Twas the night before an Eco Etsy Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The recycled yarn stockings hung by the chimney with care, in hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there; The children were nestled all snug in their beds, while visions of solar power danced through their heads; [...]

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