Go Green for Life

Sarah Susanka, architect and author of the The Not So Big House books, thinks kitchens are out of control. Oversize appliances and gadgets that do everything we once did by hand now clutter our countertops and eat up storage.

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You may not realize it, but there are many easy things you can do to help stop global warming. In recent years, it has been discovered that temperatures have risen approximately 1F higher than the average. Over the next decade, we could see temperature increases up to 6 degrees higher. Small increases in the Earth’s temperature could result in a drastic change in the climate. This has the potential to impact the sea level in the oceans of the world, changes in the productivity of crops, changes in the air that we depend on, and the water we drink may also experience a change. In addition to this, our overall health and the standard economy will be drastically affected. This is why it is essential to know and understand that there are easy things you can do to help stop global warming.

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We have all heard of green roofs, but have you heard to green walls?
As ecologically correct as green roofs (they cool the building and absorb rainwater runoff), green walls just look cool.
In Seoul, Korea, Mass Studies architects used replacement tiles covered in Pachysadnra terminalis, a common evergreen ground cover, to create the curing walls to this Ann Demeulemeester shop.

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When you want to make sure that you are getting the most out of your kitchen supplies, you’ll find that you have a real winner when it comes to your vinegar.  While some recipes will call for a certain type of vinegar, you’ll find that any kind of vinegar can be used for all sorts of things around the house.

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Holistic nutrition is more than a list of foods to eat; it may be better understood as principles of eating that are both profitable and purposeful for the body. A brief look at the underlying precepts of holistic nutrition will better enable you to practice this beneficial lifestyle.

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Have you ever thrown a party and worried that no one would show up?

When the first Earth Day was announced, in the fall of 1969, those

of us involved had that worry, but not for long. That day -- April

22, 1970 -- millions of Americans participated in events across the

country, joining in to clean up a riverbank, attend a rally, build

a nature trail or organize a recycling program. 

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The average American uses more than 700 pounds of paper a year in today’s modern office and at home from the numbers of copies of documents which are made needlessly.  Too often office workers are quick to make printouts of documents, especially each and every time a small change is made, despite the fact that the change may only be a minor one.   Here are a few tips to help you go green and save the amount of paper that you produce on a daily basis in your office or at home.

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We get garbage pick up once a week here in Winnipeg.  We are a household of seven, my parents, my husband and my three kids, ages, 7, 5 and 3.  Garbage Day is tomorrow and my dad asked, why do we have only one grocery size bag of garbage this week. Let me think. We compost the food scraps even thought the compost is frozen outside. I still make the trek outside to dump it into the compost bin.  It will warm up eventually and it will start braking down.  All the paper and recyclables go into the blue bin for recycling.  Did you think that we can reduce our garbage into the landfills?  Here is a challenge for you.  Do you think you can limit you garbage into the landfills?

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