Save Big Money on Electric Bills with Simple, Green Tweaks

 'Green' is the buzzword for this decade. Living green means using less electricity. Electricity, which has never been a terribly expensive utility, is now escalating in price with all the other utilities. Our electric bills have doubled in the past 5 years despite the fact that we have installed every energy saving device possible. Here are 25 easy ways to counteract the rising costs of energy by reducing usage.  read more

Green Up Your Shopping and Save Money

Living green also means saving green with these eco-friendly shopping tips. You've heard it said "you can't have everything"? Maybe not always, but you can with green shopping. Here are ways to reduce, reuse, recycle and save on grocery shopping. Save time, money, gas, hassle and patience! 'Green Up' Your Shopping and Save Money

'Caine's Arcade' is Good Green Fun with a Recycle Flair

According to Unplugged, 9-year-old Caine Monroy's taped-up "video game arcade" is tickling the fancy of the fickle internet viewers. The contraption is made from standard kid impedimenta -- recycle-bin cardboard, old electronic trinkets and bits salvaged from his father's car parts store. Using that juvenile blend of mechanical genius, masking tape and a willing suspension of the laws of physics, Monroy finagled the refuse into a homespun gaming station. I call it "childhood at its best." Here how Caine is living "green" and giving recycled a fun twist. Here's also how kids can do likewise. Read on 'Caine's Arcade' is Childhood as It's Meant to Be Lived 

Reuse Holiday Lights Year-Round for Green Decor

Holiday Lights: Green, Creative Ways to Use and Reuse
Don't you love the simple beauty of holiday lights? Strings of soft, delicate colors add a lovely ambiance. Use low wattage holiday lights year-round for decorating and design. Here's a list of green ways to use holiday lighting.
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Green Home Winterization Tips that Save Heating Costs

Easy, Inexpensive Ways to Reduce Your Home Energy and Heating Costs
We've winterized homes and mobile homes and have learned many tricks along the way to reduce home heating costs. These DIY, 'on-a-shoestring' tips do not require large investments of money. Cut your energy consumption with these green ideas.
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Free Printable Organizers, Schedules, Charts and Personal Planners

Free Printable Back-to-School Organizers, Planners and Craft Activities
'Back-to-School' has become a catch phrase in marketing. 'Back-to-school' sales, shopping guides and promotions abound. We all know where we can go to spend money, but how about some money savers? Free printable back-to-school activities.
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Looking for Zen? Purge Your Clutter

Emotional Health Tips: Purge Your Clutter Purge the clutter. Get rid of useless junk. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. These are common phrases. What I'm going to discuss is not new. But it's important and bears repeating. Purging clutter both in the home and in life is a great emotional health boost. Read More

Boxed Water is Better than Bottled Water in Plastic

Boxed Water Vs. Plastic Water Bottles: Green, Sustainable, Renewable, Recycled Products
Last year, when my family attended Festival of the Arts in Grand Rapids we discovered a nifty green alternative to disposable plastic water bottles: boxed water. Boxed Water is Better packages drinking water in paper cartons.
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The Complete Home-owners Guide to Recycle, Reuse, Reduce, Repair, Re-Sell and Remove

Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Re-Sell, Remove
Eco-friendly ways to clean your home, purge your things and help the environments. Green tips for complete household purge and clean-up
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Green, Creative Ways to Wrap Presents

Unique Containers for Gift Baskets: Make the Container Part of the Gift
Why do we always put gift basket items in a basket? Because baskets are creative and useful containers? Here's a gift basket idea that makes the container part of a personalized gift. Below is a list of alternative gift containers.
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Green Showers

20 Ways to Take a Green Shower
Mother Earth is sending out SOSs constantly. She's sick, tired, hungry and thirsty. She's calling us to live green. By our choices we heed her call and renew our earth, or ignore to our peril. Think green in every breath you take. Every move you make.
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How to Take a Green Shower

20 Ways to Take a Green Shower
Mother Earth is sending out SOSs constantly. She's sick, tired, hungry and thirsty. She's calling us to live green. By our choices we heed her call and renew our earth, or ignore to our peril. Think green in every breath you take. Every move you make.
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Reduce: Spend Less, Save More; Waste Less

Things You Don't Need to Buy
We can save money, time, energy, landfills, natural resources and sanity by reducing the excess junk we buy!
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Green Home Maintenance

25 Green Home Maintenance Tips; Live Green, Save Green
Checklist for green home maintenance. Go green just in time for winter white. Drastically reduce utility bills. Reduce heat loss. Green homes are healthy homes! Green homes are well-maintained homes!
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Green=Recycle,reduce,reuse,repair,resell

Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Repair, Re-Sell, Remove
Green living starts with simple living. Do you bit for the earth with these tips for a complete household purging. Organize your stuff. Declutter your life.
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Easy Ways to Lower Water Bills 30 Percent or More

Save 30% on Your Water or Sewer 25 easy ways to reduce the amount of water your family uses and lower your water and sewer bills by 30%. View more »

Save Money on Electric Bills

Save Big Money on Electric Bills 25 Ways to reduce energy consumption and lower electric bills. 25 easy ways to cut costs and live green. View more »

Keep Cool Without AC

Keep Your Home Cool This Summer the 'Green' Way Without Air Conditioning
Tips for keeping it cool in your house without air conditioning. View more »

Quit Wasting Money

Things You Don't Need to Buy We can save money, time, energy, landfills, natural resources and sanity by reducing the excess junk we buy! View more »

Easy way to Live Green

200+ Easy Ways to Live Green and Save Green If you walk the walk you've got to talk the talk. Case in point: Living green. Here are  over 200 ways to walk the eco-friendly walk. View more »