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....

Welcome to the August 4th, 2008 edition of All Things Eco.

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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....

Maybe you've heard of TerraCycle for their liquid plant food (worm poop!). They're much more than worm poop now, and their brand has expanded to include, among other things, eco-friendly cleaning products. TerraCycle products are the first consumer products to carry the Zerofootprint™ seal, which means the materials and manufacturing process that go into creating the products have virtually no negative environmental effects. The cleaners are non-toxic, fragrance free, biodegradable, people and pet safe, are never tested on animals, and are packaged in waste stream products which would otherwise have ended up in a landfill....