10 Ways To Celebrate Your Community For Earth Day

Although Earth Day is all about community, it’s a much broader community than most of us usually think about. The enormity of the earth’s population and the issues facing it, often make us feel overwhelmed and unsure if we can even make a difference. That’s why it helps to think more locally–starting in your own neighborhood–because the results are both immediate and easily visible.

With this in mind, here are some ways to help improve your own environment and to celebrate the 40^th anniversary of Earth Day.

Nail polish and nature

What's in nail polish ?

Nail polish isn't a modern invention by any means. According to Wikipedia, the Egyptians were using it thousands of years ago based on henna extracts and the Chinese used a mixture of natural components such as Arabic gum, gelatin and beeswax.

12 Energy Saving Tips For Driving

With the high price of gas, any energy saving tips is likely to be a high priority for nearly any car driver. Even when it comes to the most fuel efficient vehicles, saving a few dollars by cutting fuel costs will benefit almost everyone. The following are 12 energy saving tips that can help you reduce fuel costs.

How stuff is recycled

Our busy modern lives disconnect us from all sorts of things - how food is grown, how goods are produced, our waste dealt with, and the processes behind recycling. The following is a brief overview how some products are recycled past the point of extraction from the waste stream.

Avoiding Mercury

Mercury is a cumulative heavy metal poison that can be absorbed by the through the skin, our digestive system and our lungs. Mercury destroys the central nervous system and many other organs. Sufficient exposure can result in brain damage, insanity and death. Mercury is a persistent toxin in the environment.

Create Dust That's Less Toxic In The First Place

You can reduce the amount of toxic chemicals that wind up in your household dust by bringing fewer toxic chemicals into the house in the first place. We suggest that you:

Tips to Remove Dust Safely And Effectively

Careful cleaning is a simple way to get rid of toxic dust. 

Here's how :

• Vacuum frequently and use a vacuum fitted with a HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filter. These vacuums are more efficient at trapping small particles and will likely remove contaminants and other allergens from your home that a regular vacuum would recirculate into the air. Change the filter to keep it working well, and don't forget to vacuum the stuffed furniture (get under those couch cushions)!

How Toxic Dust Can Affect Your Family ?

When you're exposed to certain toxic chemicals -- even at very low doses -- your health can be adversely affected. Dust is simply another way for the toxic chemicals in your house to reach your body.

Why Your Household Dust is Toxic ?

Every home has a little dust -- and its own unique "dust load," based on a variety of factors like where you live, what you cook, if you smoke, the climate, and how many people -- and animals -- live there. 

Brown rice vs white rice

Brown rice is not only better for you, but it's better for the environment than white rice too.
So what's the difference?

How Your Light Bulbs Can Cut Energy Costs In Half!

These days there are many tools and products being made in order to cut down monthly costs as well as save energy. LED light bulbs are great for those looking to shed a little bit of light within their home! Check out how these bulbs can help to cut down your monthly budget costs!

A green Valentines Day

Valentine's Day is a holiday celebrated on February 14 and while it has a very long history dating back hundreds of years, the scale of the occasion we have today is largely thanks (or no thanks) to marketers.

Kitchen stain recipes for lipstick, grass, and more

You don’t have to cover your furniture in plastic or ban berries from your home. Life gets messy and clothes, furniture, and carpets get stained.

But if you have a few of the key ingredients, such as baking soda, salt, and vinegar in your cupboard, you can prevent a lot of those stains from sticking.

Commercial stain removers can be helpful, but there is no single product on the market that fights all of your stains. And many of those products contain harsh chemical 

 solvents with toxic ingredients that you wouldn’t want on your clothes and skin.

Surprising ways to reuse aluminum foil

While aluminum foil is just as recyclable as aluminum cans, many curbside recycling programs won't accept it for sanitary reasons. That's a shame, because recycling aluminum uses only about 5% of the energy that it takes to produce aluminum from raw materials.

Top Six Greenhouse Gardening Tips

In most ways greenhouse gardening is like regular gardening except for a few things. You have the accountability to keep check on the environment for the plants growing in the greenhouse but the fundamental skills required are the same.

A Green Environment for Your New Baby

A new baby is a beautiful and awe-inspiring blessing to any family. From the warm, safe and very recognizable environment of moms womb, what environment, what cocoon will provide your baby safety from here on out ?

Baby gorilla pictured 'relaxing' in human-like pose

Seemingly without a care in the world six-month-old lowland gorilla baby Yewande leans back with her arms behind her head Photo: CATERS

Why Antarctica isn't melting like the Arctic ... yet

You've probably noticed that you read a lot of stories on Arctic melt, how quickly it's progressing, opening up shipping lanes and hurriedly moving towards ice-free summers. 

Starfish: Carbon storage heroes

According to a new study by British researchers, starfish and their fellow echinoderms (sea urchins, sea lilies, etc.) act as a significant sink for CO2. 

Vegetarianism is the right way

You can see very famous people in the past who were vegetarians Sir Isaac Newton, Aristotle, Mark Twain, Leonardo Da Vinci, Jesus Christ, Confucius, Plato, Pythagoras, Einstein and Abraham Lincoln.

What Is a Greenhouse Gas ?

What exactly is a greenhouse gas? In a nutshell, they're gases in the atmosphere—both naturally occurring and caused by humans—that absorb and emit radiation.

Top seven disappearing glaciers

7. The Matterhorn

(Photo: c. 1960 & today, Getty Images)

Many often wonder why Europeans get so hot and bothered about climate change.

10 Ways to Go Green at Work

Greener homes are in the spotlight these days, but what about the other places where many of us spend huge chunks of our time--our offices?

Herbal Stress Relief

In modern life, stress is something we must deal with on an almost daily basis. Whether we're worried about work,

Guide to Reduce Cell Phone Radiation Exposure

Cell phones emit radiation to send voice and text messages between you and the other caller. Health risks aren’t confirmed, but

10 tasty flu-fighting foods

Buried in the controversy over whether to get the H1N1 vaccination (or even where to find one), is that one of the best ways to ward off any flu is to build up your overall immunity. Dave Grotto, author of

Is plastic making us fatter?

Researchers are exploring how some of the synthetic chemicals used in plastics, cosmetics, toys, and other ubiquitous products may be contributing to the rise in obesity.

Indoor plants could save your life

New research shows that ornamental plants can drastically reduce levels of stress and ill health and boost performance levels at work because they soak up harmful indoor air pollution.

Healing Your Baby Naturally

From skin irritations through to painful colic, nature offers an abundance of plants which have been used for centuries to heal these conditions and the trend toward natural and organic preparations of these plants is becoming evermore popular due to their efficacy, purity and concerns about harmful environmental toxins in non-organic products. 

Is Your Home Making You Or Your Family Sick ?

• Question : What do carpets, paint, household cleaners and building materials have in common ?
• Answer   : All can contain toxic compounds that could be making you and your family sick. 

10 Ways to Go Green and Save Green

Climate change is in the news. It seems like everyone's "going green." We're glad you want to take action, too. Luckily, many of the steps we can take to stop climate change can make our lives better. Our grandchildren-and their children-will thank us for living more sustainably. Let's start now.

Toxic Cosmetic Ingredients You Must Avoid

Here’s a list of some common skin and hair care chemicals we all need to avoid.

1. Coal Tar : Coal tar is used to treat eczema, psoriasis and other skin disorders and can be found in anti-itch creams and scalp treatments. It’s also a known carcinogen.
   

How to Create a Green Environment in Your Home

Creating a truly green environment inside the home is something very simple, and which can be done in many different ways.

Haiti Earthquake, Deforestation Heighten Landslide Risk

The combination of widespread deforestation and the recent earthquake inHaiti could lead to more landslides in the already hard-hit country, scientists say.

Global warming

The current cycle of global warming is changing the rhythms of climate that all living things have come to rely upon. What will we do to slow this warming? How will we cope with the changes we've already set into motion? While we struggle to figure it all out, the face of the Earth as we know it—coasts, forests, farms, and snowcapped mountains—hangs in the balance.