Green Living

Green homes come in all shapes and sizes, with energy efficiency the key to spreading the green across the land.

Changing technologies provide consumers with multiple choices, across a range of products, for energy reducing solutions that save money over the long term and reduce emissions of gasses, such as carbon dioxide, that contribute to a changing climate.

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

Minimizing pesticide use, to the point of eliminating it from the landscape helps keep the family pets protected and promotes increased visits from birds, butterflies and other wildlife.

Green living refers to the many ways we live our lives. Recent population surveys, for example, show that over fifty percent of Americans live in a coastal county.

Human activity along the coast blends the sun, sand and surf into a unique offering of economic and recreational activities. A green take on ocean living considers a variety of these blends.

The following few articles cover the general ocean living theme.

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

© 2011 Patricia A. Michaels