Green Options

I have been reading a lot of mixed reviews of Clorox’s new “green works” line of household cleaners.  For those of you who do not know, greenwashing according to wikipedia “is a term that is used to describe the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service.”  Chester’s Clean House writes that even 1% unnatural ingredients is too much.  They have a strong argument, but I still think [...]

Are you doing all that you can to recycle?  Do you have two or more recycling bins?  Do really know what can and cannot be recycled?  The problem is that every community has different rules on what can and cannot be recycled.  I always wondered if what I put into the recycling bin was actually just taken to the dump.  Here is a list of items you may not have thought of recycling.  Do you recycle?

So you want to be a good steward of our beautiful earth.  Recycling is a great way to do your part, but in our hectic lives we often forget many of the simple things we can do.  I found this great list of ways to recycle plastic bags that uses the bag in many useful ways and helps our environment.

I have been reading Chester’s Clean House this last week as they have been posting about the dangers of cleaning products.  I had no idea how many children are poisoned each year by ordinary household chemicals.  I remember reading that anti-freeze was a huge killer of kids becuase they liked the bright green color and it tasted like kool-aid.  I know that they passed a law so that they had to add something to it to make it taste bad. [...]