August 15th's Tip

Tomatoes: Never refrigerate tomatoes. Cold kills flavor, nutrients, and texture. On the flip side, heat makes tomatoes mushy and flavorless. Ideal tomato temperature is between 55 and 70 degrees F. To ripen tomatoes, store them in a pierced paper bag at room temperature with an apple for a few days....

August 8th's Tip

Books: According to Eco-Libris, 4.15 billion books are produced in the US every year (2006 figures), which results in more than 20 million trees being cut down. If these numbers disturb you, there are some steps you can take to lowering your impact in regards to books....

August 1st's Tip

Lawn Watering: Today's tip comes from Eric at Real World Green in the form of a video.

For our RSS readers and those of you who can't get the video to load, Eric lets us know that the best time for watering our lawns is in the early morning....

July 25th's Tip

Electric razors: There's the obvious benefit: throwing away less disposables. Sure, you'll have to replace an electric razor once in a while, but it won't be once a week or more like with disposables. You'll also be throwing away less or no shaving gel/cream containers, because you won't need it. Another bonus of electric razors: you'll use less water....

July 18th's Tip

Greeting Cards: In the U.S. alone, about 7 billion greeting cards are purchased each year. Wonder how many trees go into making those cards? I'm not sure I want to know! Why not forgo the traditional card, and send an e-card? Another benefit to e-cards is many of them are free! If you don't want to go that route, try buying recycled cards (which any card shop should carry), or tree-free cards. You an even make your own cards out of recycled paper....