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Green Living Saves Money

We’re all trying to live a little greener these days, and why wouldn’t we? 

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Go Green with Feng Shui

Your home is your oasis; the place you go to relax, regroup and reenergize. If you desire some balance in not only your life but in the world at large, maybe it’s time to incorporate the principles of...

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Simple Ways to Be Green and Save Green When You Shop

In the early days of the "green" movement, some practical-minded Americans may have considered an eco-friendly lifestyle a costly luxury they couldn't afford. Now, however, people are increasingly...

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Simple Tips to 'Green' Your Yard and Your Pocket

It's never too early to get a jumpstart on planning a more beautiful backyard.

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Make Living Naturally Second Nature at Home

Many families are interested in adopting a more natural lifestyle, especially when they're met by life-changing moments, such as welcoming a new baby, adopting a pet, or buying a new home.

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How to Promote Sustainability without Sacrifice at Home

Spring is the perfect time to think green. The sun is shining and plants are in bloom -- so why not get inspired to consider adding a bit of green to your lifestyle? Here's a look at how you can reduce...

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How to Help Kids 'Go Green'

Kids are increasingly aware of the issues impacting their environment, and are even more engaged and excited about making their world a greener place. Parents can involve their children in "going...

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Five Ways to Make Your Home and Wallet Greener

With tightened budgets, you may be surprised to learn that going green at home is not only good for the planet but also good for your pocket book.

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Expert Advice on Energy Saving Tips for the Home

What if you could easily save money and help the environment at the same time? You can. All it takes is a little expert advice on how to make your home more energy efficient. 

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Clean, Green and Affordable Laundry

Laundry can take its toll -- on your wallet and on the environment.

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Bringing Green Living to Your China Cabinet

What do you see when you take stock of your china cabinet? Pieces that you only pull out on special occasions? Or maybe the same casual pattern that you feel like you've used forever? In the current...

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Solar Water Heating Can Save Money and Pay Off Big

Green-minded homeowners can continue to turn to the sky for help in coping with rising energy costs for years to come thanks to an extension of the solar tax credit program by Congress.

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'Green’ Equals Green with Ceramic Tile

For homeowners, good news has been hard to come by in this bleak economy.

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American Hardwoods: Nature's 'Greenest' Choice

When it comes to “greening” a new or existing home, many consumers simply do not have the facts about American hardwood as an environmentally-friendly building material choice.

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Kill The Junk Mail

We all get it and we all just throw it away. Junk mail is a problem for everyone, and not just because of the dangers of identity theft.

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Decrease Your Home’s Carbon Footprint and Save

Let’s face it, the earth needs our help and families everywhere are looking for ways to help out.

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Easy, Green and Inexpensive Container Gardens Brighten Your Day

Now more than ever we are all looking for ways to find affordable, earth-friendly hobbies and leisure activities to bring us moments of pleasure in a stressful world.

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What Shade of Green Are You?

If you thought green was a trend primarily embraced by Gen X and Yers, think again.

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Go Green This Spring Cleaning Season

Is your spring cleaning really as clean as you think it is? Spring cleaning is supposed to be a ritual of purging the accumulated dirt, germs and odor from a winter-weary home to create a clean and...

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Making Your Lawn Green

You’re probably thinking that this is going to be about how to get your lawn looking green and fresh but making your lawn green isn’t about fertilizer, it’s about turning your outdoor property into a...

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Passive Solar Lighting

When you hear the term solar lighting, it probably evokes images of huge solar panels covering the roof of a home or even a stand alone solar array that fills a field soaking up the sunlight.

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Consuming and Living Green

Green living isn’t about buying something, in fact, quite the opposite. Today green living is about buying less and getting more life out of what we already have.

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Green Living and Charity go Hand in Hand

Unfortunately there is still a popular misconception that living green means having to give up something, or having to go without. But green living isn’t about saying no to the way we live, it’s about...

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Nationwide College Contest To Reduce Carbon Footprint Gains Momentum

America’s Greenest Campus Contest Reduces 5.9M Lbs of CO2, Equivalent to Taking 500 Cars Off the Road: U. of Maryland & George Mason Leading the Way

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Tips for Enjoying a Green Picnic Lunch

For all the upsides to a nice picnic lunch, there is also a very serious down side. Picnics tend not to be very environmentally friendly.

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Green Living in an Apartment

Not everybody owns their home. For many of us, apartment living is the way we have to live, but apartment living and green living don’t always go together.

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Green Living Outside the Home

When we talk about green living it is usually in reference to what we can do in our homes to make a difference for the environment while saving money, but there is another place where we spend a lot of...

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The Cost of Living Green

You know you should be trying to live more green, but that doesn’t necessary mean you’re in a financial position to go buy a new, fuel efficient car or to convert your home into a solar powered,...

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Survive the summer without Air-Conditioning

Well the summer sun is doing its job and temperatures around the country are on the rise. Perhaps it’s already been hot enough where you live to cause you to seek relief and to turn on your home...

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Pack a 'greener' brown bag lunch

Being eco-friendly isn't just limited to the car you drive or the appliances you buy, and it doesn't have to mean sacrificing convenience, quality or budget.

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Going Green at School

Although it is summer now, it won’t be long before the colleges will be back in full swing and the dorms are once again filled with young minds eager to learn.

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Green Living Tips for Senior Citizens

Although most senior citizens can’t be accused of excessive energy use from items like snowmobiles or ATVs, nor can they be blamed for being the mass consumers in our society, that doesn’t mean that...

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Eco-friendly and money-saving cleaning tips

Six states have passed legislation banning the use of phosphates in cleaning products and others are soon to follow. The good news is you don’t need harmful or expensive chemical products to keep your...

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Make every day Earth Day

Making an effort to help save Mother Earth is a great way to get involved, but it shouldn't only be the focus one day a year. The need for environmentally conscious behavior is ever-present.

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