Observing Earth Day with a Staycation

Today is Earth Day and it also happens to be part of a long weekend leading to Easter. But instead of going away to relax and relish the holidays, staying home for the duration of the vacation is a lot more beneficial to the environment. A staycation makes use of less carbon emissions and waste. [...]

Easter Green Ideas

Celebrate Easter this year in the greenest way possible by keeping some of these suggestions in mind: 1. If you have to use baskets to put your eggs into, consider recycling than buying a new one. If you have nothing to recycle and will really have to get yourself a new basket at the store, [...]

What is Sustainable Living?

Living green affects all aspects of our day to day activities. A sustainable lifestyle means that while we use the resources available to us, we also find ways to contribute and make this planet better by not depleting these resources. Sustainable living is achieved in these following areas: 1. In spite of the existence of [...]

Organic Gift-Giving

Are you already halfway through your Christmas list? If there are still more shopping to do, then perhaps you should consider getting organic presents for your friends and loved ones. Doing this is also like giving Mother Earth a present for the holidays, as you do your part to help reduce waste and the impact [...]

Green Holiday Shopping Ideas

Is it too early to start shopping for the holidays? When the “ber” months arrive, stores actually begin putting up decors for sale. That’s a homemaker’s cue to start cooking up ideas on how to decorate for the coming festivities. But one must not forget to think green when doing all these. To start with, [...]

The Trip of a Lifetime

With summer rolling in, a lot of people are surely planning on where to spend their few weeks off from work or school. Taking a vacation is always a good idea since everyone needs the break from the daily grind. A vacation is also great for families and friends to bond together.

Smock Introduces 30+ Eco-Friendly Letterpress Stationery Designs

Smock, an eco-friendly stationery line specializing in luxury letterpress goods, has introduced 30+ new letterpress designs on their website www.smockpaper.com. The new designs include letterpress greeting cards, patterned letterpress social stationery including lettersheets and hang tag/gift tags, new recycled gift wrap, and a new collection of colorful offset thank you cards and note cards, all [...]

New Year’s Day Tips To Handle Leftovers

Everyone gains a pound or two during the holiday season, as food is forever abundant. There is one more holiday left, one last party to prepare for: New Year’s Eve. This year, though, I am vowing to keep it light and simple and welcome the year by cost-cutting and reducing waste. For one thing, I’m [...]

Things To Do With Gift Wrappers Post-Holiday

You’ve opened and unwrapped your gifts. You’ve collected all of the wrappers for recycling, as we’ve suggested. So what do you actually do with them after the holidays? We’ve got some nifty suggestions below: Use them as book covers. If you have old books lying around, use the gift wrappers to cover and protect it. [...]

Celebrating a Green Christmas

With all the merrymaking and stress combined, it would be so easy to forget to practice green living. But we all know, we have to do our very best. This lifestyle doesn’t have to pause because it’s the holidays. Below are some tips to observe green living this Christmas: 1. Decorate using homemade Christmas ornaments. [...]

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