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| Green living starts at home. The best and easiest way to live a green life is to make your home and everything in it as efficient as possible.... and you'll save a load of money by doing it! |
 | | | The Dishwasher / Hand-wash Debate | | What's more efficient and less impactful on the planet? Washing dishes by hand or using a dishwasher? Many dishwasher manufacturers claim that their dishwashers use less water than washing the same amount of dishes by ...More |
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 | | | Love Your Tub and Leave it. | | After you enjoy a relaxing bath during the cooler moths of the year, leave the cork in and leave the water in the tube for a while. The water's heat dissipate into your bathroom! Try it! after having a bath in colder m...More |
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 | | | Green Tennant | | As a land-owner renting out an appartment to tenants, how do you convince these people who, usually, you barely know, to live in your home by your environmental standards? Or should you even bother? My wife and I have b...More |
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 | | | A Natural Deer Repellant | | Deer eating the leaves of your young fruit trees or your hostas? Here's maybe the most natural way to keep deer away: by urinating on the perimeter of your yard or around the particular tree or plant you want protected....More |
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 | | | Are Compact Fluorescents the Greener Choice? | | Lately, I've been hearing more and more discussion to suggest that CFLs (compact fluorescent lamps) are actually worse for the planet than traditional incandescent ones. The argument is this: since CFLs contain small am...More |
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 | | | Green Gatherings | | It's always a challenge to entertain people in a green fashion. Anyone who's hosted a party or gathering knows just how much waste these good times can create! But here's a chance to look for yourself at how much waste...More |
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 | | | Composting Basics and How-To | | Back yard composting is great. Yeah, many Canadian cities have the green bin program going (which you still need to make use of even if you compost at home.. I'll get to that later) but that stuff gets picked up every w...More |
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 | | | Green Teeth!?! | | If you have green teeth, you're beyond being helped by the contents of this entry... please see a dentist. Keeping your pearly whites nice and pearly might be costing you more than the price of oral hygiene products... ...More |
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 | | | Get a Free Tree! | | Do you live in Toronto and want a tree in your backyard? Contact LEAF (Local Enhancement and Appreciation of Forests) which is a local non-profit group dedicated to improving Toronto's urban forest. They offer Toronto ...More |
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 | | | Bacteria-mania: revisited | | It's Bacteria-mania! I don’t know who started it, the media or the soap manufacturers (it doesn’t really matter they both have a lot to gain by scaring the pants off us) but at some point, some time ago we started to se...More |
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 | | | Green Yards... but not too green | | Homeowners love a beautiful yard that they can call their own little slice of green. And why not, we all need a little oudoor getaway to refresh the spirit once in a while and the closer to home the better. But traditi...More |
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 | | | Clean up your toilet paper choices | | Every year, thousands of acres of forests in Canada, Finland and Russia are logged to within an inch of the ecosystem's life just so we can wipe our butts! This point was nicely made in Vanity Fair's green issue, where ...More |
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 | | | Green Laundry | | Laundry is such a mundane part of all our lives that, as with other daily tasks, we forget how much energy and resources it requires. Detergents and softeners and harsh bleaches go down your home's drains and eventually...More |
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 | | | Natural Pest Control | | Household insecticides are so widely used (especially here in Toronto) that we tend to forget that they're as toxic and damaging as the products used in agriculture, that we try to avoid by buying organic products. In t...More |
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 | | | Eight easy ways to reduce your energy use | | There are many ways to make your home more energy efficient. Some are easy and inexpensive and others are more costly but are a worthwhile investment that benifit both the environment and your pocketbook. Here's a few ea...More |
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 | | | Some Costly Ways to Make Your Home Work for You. | | Here are some more costly ways to reduce your home energy consumption. But remember these are investments that will see a significant return for the investor. So if you can afford it, do it!Install solar panels on your...More |
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 | | | Earth friendly soap alternatives | | by Michael BlochMuch of what goes down our drains winds up in the environment and potentially nasty chemicals from common soap residue are no different. There are greener ways to stay clean.Most of us use normal soap on ...More |
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| | | Green your dishes | | Washing dishes with modern cleaning products does more than just make your fingers pruney. Toxic ingredients polute our waterways and can irritate the skin and leave unwanted residues on dishes. Everybody washes dishes ...More |
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 | | | Homemade cleaning formulas | | It's easy to wonder when you're cleaning if you can be doing more harm than good by sticking your head over a slew of toxic chemicals. Ease your mind - and your lungs - with our environmentally sound cleaning formulas, u...More |
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