When I heard the name, “One Block off the Grid,” I thought what a weird name. Is this like some trendy place like SOHO, which stands for south of Houston Street in NYC, or a some new band name which plays less than mainstream music? So, what is One Block Off the Grid? Basically in [...]
April 2009
Almost two years ago I interviewed Ryan Lewis, CEO of Green Crawler, about the Company’s unique online green shopping website. Recently, I received an email from him telling me about the Company’s relaunch of the website and their growth over the last two years. So, what is Green Crawler? “Green Crawler is an innovative online shopping database of green, organic, natural, eco-friendly, [...]
April 27, 2009 is National Healthy Schools Day , which promotes green and healthy schools for our children. It will be celebrated throughout the US and Canada. Janelle Sorensen, Senior Writer and Health Consultant for Healthy Child Healthy World submitted the following post to me which is being cross-posted on Healthy Child, Healthy World’s blog to get the word out about [...]
See Update below: 12/21/2010: TerraCycle is now collecting glue bottles and sticks as part of their brigade program. Check out the giveaway below! If you have kids, you have Elmer’s glue in the form of glue sticks or glue bottle. My kids are notorious for leaving off the glue stick caps or using way too much glues [...]
With Earth Day fastly approaching, I have been pondering what should I write about. A list of 10 items on how to be kinder to the Earth? Earth Day announcements from various not for profits helping to make our world a better place? A gift guide to help you to change the world via your [...]
In celebration of Earth Day, Walmart announced its “Earth Day, Every Day” School Challenge, in which the winning school will receive $20,000 to help further green their school. The purpose of the challenge is to recognize those schools that are taking active strives to create a greener Earth. How do you apply? Between April 3-May [...]
See Update Below: 12/11/2011: My life is pretty simple and relatively boring. That was all about to change when I met a vintage chandelier that needed some TLC. It lead me down a road that most would not have taken. Ominous? Kind of. Friday the 13th? Not so scary. It involved stripping (and not the [...]
Corn Gluten Pellets. For three years I have used different form of corn gluten with different success rates to kick the butt of crabgrass. Why corn gluten? Corn gluten is a more natural product to get rid of my crabgrass. I am anti-pesticide and come August, my lawn looks more like a bad haircut rather than [...]
EarthForEnergy sells a handy e-book on how to make your own wind turbine or solar panel for under $200. In addition, the e-book is accompanied by two installation videos. Watch the short video above as Wayne from the Company walks you through building the guts of the wind turbine. I had no idea at the time [...]
I received an email from my friends at Ecobunga! telling me about their great Earth Day Giveaway. I have previouly written about them since I love their concept. Think online sweepstakes meets green. The site features green giveaways and discounts from companies and websites like Green Talk. I signed up to receive their newsletter to [...]
