From growing herbs and lettuce in your apartment to raising chickens, many people have taken control over at least a portion of their own food production. Let’s look at three ways you can begin to produce your own food, even in urban or suburban settings. Windowfarms Here at the Windowfarms [...]

Home gardening accounts for an astonishing 75% of all pesticides used in North America, making it several million pounds used per year. Most of these are used to control insects on fruits and vegetables. From the garden, most of these chemicals find their way into streams and rivers as runoff, [...]

Going green is a top priority for many, and if we could all do a little bit more to help our planet we could all enjoy it for longer! There are a multitude of things that we can do or not do in order to go green and lots of [...]

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As the clock ticks through the year, the Canadian federal government deadline to eliminate incandescent bulbs draws ever nearer. By 2012, the old lighting standby will be eliminated in Canada, just one of many countries effectively outlawing Edison’s most famous invention. To replace this venerable light source, there are a [...]

In recent years, Transition Towns have become a global phenomenon. They bring together individuals in a community who share the same desire to do the following: tackle oil dependency, address climate change, and seize the opportunities offered by creating a more sustainable way of life. No small task. So how [...]

An Italian mama will tell you that it takes a big mutha of a pot-of-water; a celebrity chef will tell you that ‘for technical reasons’ the water just needs to cover the pasta. There has to be a middle ground. Pasta is a Western diet staple (Americans cook around a [...]

It’s easy to ignore the disconcerting fact that heating water for showers and baths constitutes a huge proportion of the cost of your energy bill, as the overall total is hidden. But showers consume up to 80% of hot water in the average home. But it’s not all doom and [...]

Well, how? What do I mean by that? Simple, really – we need more devices that actually indicate, in a simple way, how much power they’re drawing from our house. But when I say in a simple way, what I really mean is in a way that’s simple for us [...]

If you like to entertain and spend time in your garden then you will want to ensure that you can do that all year round. In some areas the temperature drops at night meaning this can be difficult as you and your guests will get cold. Outdoor fireplaces are ideal [...]