GardenGrrrl is a graduate student and sustainable living advocate who grew up in a household that valued "green living" long before the advent of green everything. At Green West Magazine she writes about her passions: gardening, cooking, and crafting sustainably.
Have you ever noticed that smell that new vinyl shower curtains have? It turns out that smell might be endangering your health, at least according to the LA Times. In an effort the transform all areas of our life toward “eco”-ness, my husband and I decided when we moved that rather than buying a [...]
This autumn, my husband and I have been busily jumping on the local food bandwagon by buying up as much local produce as possible and preserving it to last us all winter. One of the the things that small farmers do in order to stay afloat in competitive markets is to create “value added” farm [...]
A nice Sierra Club staffer explains Why You Can’t Recycle Plastic Bottle Caps. : NPR Just another reason to avoid buying plastic in the first place.
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Phoenix might not be the first city you think of when you think of green cities, but this week Phoenix made an important step towards greening — light rail came to downtown Phoenix. Considering that some have called Phoenix “Sprawl City USA” this is a wonderful development. There’s also a “Sprawl has no future in [...]
If you are a crafter you will love this idea, a yarn CSA. What’s a CSA? Watch the video, Susan does a great job of explaining. CSA stands for Community Supported Agriculture. It’s a different way of buying farm products. The consumer buys a subscription at the beginning of the season and gets a portion [...]
BBC News reports that according to Oxfam Biofuel use ‘increasing poverty’.
“Biofuel use ‘increasing poverty’
A palm oil plantation in Ivory Coast
Palm oil is one of the biofuel crops stirring controversy
The replacement of traditional fuels with biofuels has dragged more than 30 million people worldwide into poverty, an aid agency report says.
Oxfam says so-called green policies in [...]
Carol over at CleanTechnica found this amazing automatic faucet that recharges itself via a tiny turbine. Check out her description and the diagram: “EcoPower Faucet Saves Energy by Recharging with Each Use”. I’m not a big fan of automatic faucets. They make me feel like the faucet gods are laughing at me as I wave [...]
When I was married four years ago, I registered with a few well known retailers. I wanted my wedding to be fun and easy, not a hassle for my guests. I wish All Green Wedding had been around then. We tried to make our wedding low impact, but green gifts would have been fabulous
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Living in California it’s easy to get into the habit of having an inexpensive glass of wine with dinner. At the moment there is such an abundance of wineries that it is easy to find inexpensive and tasty bottles. Yet wine growing regions such as California’s Napa Valley may already be endangered. There is growing [...]
In the last year water has been in the news quite a bit. Green Living Online provides us a review of “Thirst: Fighting the Corporate THEFT of Our Water.” As detailed in “Thirst,” water in many parts of the U.S. is being privatized, limiting access to clean water to those who can pay. At the [...]