Archive for the ‘green living at home’ Category


Nine Green Home Remedies for Soothing Sunburn Pain

We’ve all likely done it, run out the door on a hot summer’s day after forgetting to anoint all exposed skin areas with our favorite sunscreen or other means of sunburn prevention.  In a few hours we start to notice several of the exposed areas feel warm and tight then later … wham, the full [...]

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Is Baking Soda Natural?

A simple title isn’t it? If you do a web search for that phrase, you will find link after link touting baking soda (sodium bicarbonate) is an agent for natural cleaning, skin care, tooth care and the list goes on and on …. The more I thought about it however, something didn’t quite seem to [...]

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Making Cedar Chip Pouches by Reusing Spent Dryer Sheets

Are you one of those people who use commercial dryer sheets to help your clothes feel soft, smell nice and so they don’t cling? If so, how often have you stated to get dressed only to be greeted by the abrasive patch of porous material left over from the last drying cycle? It’s a simple [...]

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A Green Blast From the Past: My Early Days of Living Green

An audio recollection of my early days of living a green lifestyle (be patient, it may take a moment to load): [audio:EarlyGreenLiving.mp3] Right click to download the audio MP3 file: Early Green Living ======== So what do dairy farms, old cardboard boxes plus Simpson Spring soda and Hood milk bottles have to do with living [...]

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A Green Lifestyle Approach for Dealing with Pesky Insects

As we slide along getting ready to make the transition from Spring to Summer, another warmer weather issue soon re-appears and springs to life trying to steal some of the fun from the season …. Pesky Insects! Most of us will experience many encounters with those little pesky insects popping out of borrows in the [...]

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