We all love our lawns, which provide much more than landscaping: they are a place for our kids to play, our pets to roam and just somewhere to relax in a hammock. And there is a right and a wrong way to plan and maintain them.
Planting for Performance
With water shortages occurring in many parts of [...]
A conversation with Kathleen Rogers
For the past six years, Earth Day Network has been working to inspire civic engagement in the classroom. It’s among the organization’s most recent collaborative initiatives in 174 countries.
President of Earth Day Network
Americans are being called to clean up their environmental act at home and abroad, but the response is slower [...]
Good Moves for New and Existing Abodes
With current U.S. population surpassing 303 million, consumption of food, energy and other resources is booming. The threats posed by global warming, deforestation, drought, high fuel prices, air pollution and disappearing natural resources all have contributed to an explosion in “green” building.
A survey by McGraw-Hill Construction, called the Green [...]
Goldilocks didn’t have to concern herself with poisonous chemicals in any of the three mattresses she tried out. In her storybook world, all the beds were naturally perfect. The good news for us is that, with today’s certified organic mattresses, all sleepers can appreciate a night of sound, simple, healthy rest.
Whether it’s to bolster the [...]
Smart Moves to reduce Indoor Pollution
While most people are aware of outdoor pollution, they may know little about harmful air pollutants inside their home. That ignorance can have grave consequences.
Indoor pollutants can come from faulty combustion in appliances, trapped moisture, household products and home furnishings. Even the mattress we sleep on could, through a process [...]
As population pressures compress living space, and the world’s maelstrom intensifies, having a private place of refuge and sanctuary is no longer a luxury, but a necessity. Everyone needs a space “where you can walk and sit and feel alone with nature,” notes gardening legend Rosemary Verey.
Urban planner Kevin Lynch says that even those who [...]
A greener approach to cleaning products
There’s nothing like a cleanser that actually works as advertised, bulldozing through dirt and leaving a surface sparkling clean. But conventional cleaning products can actually leave indoor air polluted with a toxic smog of petrochemical volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and the synthetic fragrances used to mask them.
Think, then, what damage [...]
Dear EarthTalk: I’m looking for a job and would like to find a position at a company that is either marketing a green product or service or that is seriously trying to improve its ecological “footprint”. Where do I look?
With just about every company trying to green its products, services and internal operations these [...]
Dear EarthTalk: I’m looking for a job and would like to find a position at a company that is either marketing a green product or service or that is seriously trying to improve its ecological “footprint”. Where do I look?
With just about every company trying to green its products, services and internal operations these days, [...]
Now that America has the hang of recycling paper and plastic, it’s time to begin recycling our CDs and DVDs. We can do it for free courtesy of The Compact Disc Recycling Center of America. They’ll even provide collection boxes suitable for shipping, although any mailing envelope will do. All we pay is the U.S. [...]
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