Green Living
Confused about what green means? Find out how your personal choices can affect the world we live in. Whether you're dining or driving, we'll show you how to be more eco-friendly.
Which Works Best: Laundry Pods, Powder or Liquid Detergents?
Stop Hand-washing Your Dishes!
Does Your Fridge Water Taste Bad? Here's How to Fix It
Is All That Shines Really Sterling Silver?
Why Porcelain Has Been the Most Prized Ceramic for Centuries
How to Buy the Best Trundle Bed
How often should you dust your dorm room?
Dorms: Can you get athlete’s foot from the dorm shower?
How often should you clean your dorm room?
8 Fabulous Uses for Parchment Paper (Including Baking!)
What Is Laundry Stripping and Is It Worth Trying?
11 Great Uses for Coffee Filters That Have Nothing to Do With Coffee
Sandspurs: The Spiky Scourge of Feet and Lawns
How Deadheading Helps Flowering Plants Flourish
How a Closed Terrarium Can Live for Decades, No Water Added
10 Most Infamous Stains in History
Is stainless steel really impossible to stain?
How to Remove Stains from White Clothing
House Hunting? Be Prepared to Win a Bidding War
Do You Have to Tell Buyers Your House Is Haunted?
What Is an APR (Annual Percentage Rate)?
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From the Easiest and Least messy, to the Get down and Dirty Last Resorts! Learn more about these seven green methods to unclog a toilet.
Hate flies? Keep them away with these herbs. Learn more about these seven herbs that deter flies naturally.
Stencils, if you ask me, are a beautiful thing. Learn more about making stencils from used cardboard.
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Make them yourself for convenient diaper changes. Learn more about homemade cloth baby wipes are easy and cheap.
Got bugs in your garden? Here's how to make your own organic gardening sprays that are easy on the environment and tough on pests.
Putting tinfoil on the wall behind your radiator will get more heat where it needs to go. Learn more about increasing your radiator's effectiveness with tinfoil.
Reduce runoff and reduce soil loss. Learn more about nine inexpensive ways you can prevent erosion.
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Those attractive sliding glass doors are a source of heat loss. Learn more about insulating sliding glass doors.
Bubble wrap is a cheap and easy way to green your windows for winter. Learn more about insulating your windows in under a minute with bubble wrap.
If you're filling the scoop or the cap, you probably are. Learn more about not using too much laundry detergent.
Kiss expensive, toxic crystalline-silica-containing play sand goodbye: Podcasting mamas Vickey and Jen (of VickeyandJen.com fame) have a recipe for making your own play sand for the kiddies. Learn more about making your own sand.
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Mixing homemade, organic chicken feed is easy and cheap. Learn more about organic chicken feed.
It's possible that poinsettias get the bummest rap in all of the plant world. Learn more about these 17 plants that can kill your cat and why poinsettias won't.
Say goodbye to paraffin candles this holiday season. Learn more about 10 reasons soy candles are better for your holiday feast.
Teflon has been linked to infertility in women. Learn more about recycling teflon cookware.
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Learn more about the impact of recycling. Learn more about if recycling really makes a difference.
It beats VOC loaded furniture polish hands down. Learn more about refinishing wood furniture with olive oil.
By Sara Novak
Just a little bit of rubbing alcohol and lemon juice will do the trick! Learn more about removing latex paint from hardwood floors.
Keep on rockin' in the green world. Learn more about these five reuses for guitar strings.
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These treatments work way better than any pesticide ever could. Learn more about riding your yard of fleas organically.
By Sara Novak
So you have a bunch of green tomatoes. Here's how to ripen them indoors. Learn more about how to ripen green tomatoes.
If you're a transient apartment dweller, these 22 tips will show you movable methods of apartment modification. Learn ore about these 22 ways to save energy and water in an apartment.
From apples and figs to bananas and guavas -- and hops. Learn more about 66 things you can grow at home.
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Passive Solar energy is great... it is free, clean, simple, and functional. Learn more about DIY passive solar heat for your garage.
Can I really compost that? Yes — you can compost almost anything that's made of 100 percent natural components. The microbes, and natural decomposition, will do the rest and your garden will thank you.