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Getting Your Backyard Ready for Summer

Guest poster on Family Focus, Al Stef, gives some easy tips to make your backyard the place you want to be this summer.

Benefits of Growing a Flower Garden

The simple act of planting, tending, and growing flowers can have minor and major benefits to any family that has the means to engage in gardening. With just a bit of soil, seeds, and perseverance you can obtain the educational, social, environmental, and health benefits of flower gardening for the whole family.

Submitted by Queen of Green on Wed, 05/08/2013

Green Grass is Pesticide Free

You detoxified your cleaning closet, rid your home of triclosan and filled it with air-cleansing plants.

Submitted by Family Focus on Wed, 05/01/2013

The Benefits of Rain Water Harvesting

Harvesting and storing rain water can be of immense benefit to homeowners, ensuring that they are able to enjoy access to the water they need for outdoor irrigation and even indoor use without having to pay a utility charge.

Submitted by Queen of Green on Tue, 04/30/2013

Can Minimalism be Green?

Minimalism and green living both promise of fulfillment in the face of hyper-consumerist culture. So I'm wrestling with the intersection of minimalist and green lifestyles -- attracted by minimalisms promise of a clutter free home and mind, but rooted in the packrat mentality of a reusing green junkie.

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Home Blogs

DIY not with Matt & Kelly Strumbaugh offers practical advice and step by step for oodles of projects around the homestead.

Bobbie Bushman and her family pulled up stakes, sold it all in the city, moved to a small town and bought a home for cash. Follow their adventures living debt free on a part-time income.

Dirt Lovers Diary Join organic gardening expert Ken Druse for tips on everything from houseplants to vegetables.

T&G Columns

Growing Up Green
Join Tovah Paglaro + family each week for Sustainable values and fun!

Growing Up Green Thrifty in the City
Natalia Tudge offers advice on how to live well, and look good in the city on less.

Dirt Lovers Diary
Ken Druse garden expert and author blogs about getting rid of pests in the garden naturally.

Articles

The US Department of Energy has made it easier than ever to learn how to go green when winterizing your home.

The fully interactive home program takes a user through all elements of a common home with step-by-step visual demonstrations.

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Ecotality's Blink EV Charger Coming Soon to Your House.

Read about an amazing new nationwide project meant to put electric vehicle chargers in parking lots and homes.

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Build it with shipping containers. The uses seem to be unlimited. See how Puma shoes is using recycled modular buildings.

This process can save time and money while reducing the embodied energy or carbon footprint of a building project dramatically.

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