Green Home Guide

Green homes come in all shapes and sizes, with energy efficiency often the common household practice across domains.

Current technology allows for multiple consumer choices that provide cost saving, practical solutions for reducing energy use and slowing emissions of gasses, such as carbon dioxide, that contribute to a changing climate.

Learning to read the energy guide label on modern appliances shows that the most climate friendly appliances also provide the best long term energy cost savings.

Household lighting also contributes to a home's monthly energy use. Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs and Holiday LED Lights are two options available for any household to drastically reduce home lighting energy consumption. LED technology continues to improve, offering the potential for large scale solar power lighting projects.

Consumer choice of energy efficient home heating options has also expanded, with wood stoves being one good choice among many. Today's high tech Pellet Stoves burn climate friendly fuels. Proper maintenance with other wood heating options such as Fireplaces and Woodstoves reduces some of their environmentally harmful side effects.

The green lawn and yard tips provided here emphasize a minimizing theme. Minimizing a household's energy use is both a money saving and environmental savings choice.

Household activities such as Composting, for example, helps recycle food and yard wastes, turing it into tomorrow's healthy backyard soil.

Today's Push Reel Mowers work wonders on a lawn, and emit neither noise nor greenhouse gasses.

Today's Cordless LIne Trimmers work double time, effictively trimming edges and wacking weeds, all without emitting greenhouse gasses.

Of course, most yard work is marked by seasonality, and the following articles address a variety of seasonal and regional topics.

Fall is Bulb Planting Season
Fall Lawn Care
Natural Pest Control With Cedar Mulch
Organic Lawn Care Tips: Dandelions
Summer Lawn Care Tips

CMA: An Organic Deicer
What are the most environmentally friendly deicers on the market today?

Additional articles, at least tangentially related to environmental issues around the home are presented below.

Environment and Nature Clip Art
The clip art section provides images of animals, birds, insects and more.

Crab Salad Recipes
Everyone has a favorite crab salad recipe.

Drying Mushrooms
Drying mushrooms extends their shelf life.

Eco-labels
Eco-labels are more commonly being used as marketing tools today.

Environmental Issues at Western Ski Resorts
Learn about the environmental friendliness of some ski resorts.

Drying Cherries
Drying cherries extends their shelf life up to a year.

Halloween Mushrooms
Searching for Halloween Mushrooms is a fun way to spend a fall afternoon.

Hollywood Goes Green: Environment at the Movies
One of the newest waves in Hollywood, the environment movie.