Archives for the ‘Gardening’ Category

Cirque du Vert: Circus of the Green - Volume 2

By Matthew Philip • Aug 8th, 2008 • Category: Energy, Gardening, Politics, Recent Posts, Resource Waste Reduction

Highlights include: Green Gift Ideas, Composting tips, Raising an Eco-Friendly Family, Nature’s touchless carwash, Offshore Drilling and Nuclear power debate and much more!



Cirque du Vert :: Volume 1 - July 25, 2008

By Matthew Philip • Jul 25th, 2008 • Category: Energy, Gardening, Health, News and Media, Recent Posts, Transportation

Check out our first edition of Cirque du Vert :: Circus of the Green! Highlights include: A 100 MPG SUV, Get Rid of Ants without Pesticides, Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy, and Coal vs. Wind in the Appalachian Mountains



Green your Pet: On-Site Waste Disposal

By Matthew Philip • Jul 14th, 2008 • Category: Chemicals, Gardening, Products and Shopping, Recent Posts, Resource Waste Reduction

Don’t send your pet waste to the local landfill, find the simple and green way to dispose of dog poop in your own backyard! No smells and great for the environment!



Why Composting is So Important for the Environment

By Wesley Joseph • Jul 10th, 2008 • Category: Chemicals, Climate Change, Gardening, Recent Posts, Recycling

You can and should begin composting — it’s easy and can often be done for free!



EHI Quick Tip: Get a Watering Can

By Wesley Joseph • Jul 8th, 2008 • Category: Gardening, Household, Recent Posts

How can keeping a watering can near your sink help you to green your household?



Plant Some Green (Red, Yellow, and Orange)

By Wesley Joseph • Jun 26th, 2008 • Category: Gardening, Recent Posts

We have mentioned the virtues of gardening before, but with spring ending and summer heating up, we encourage our readers to take a look at what can be done.
You don’t have room for a garden? Most living situations, even in tight quarters in the city, provide some opportunity, even a small one, to do [...]



Solar Powered Mower - Coming to Your Backyard - Now!

By Matthew Philip • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Energy, Gardening

One of my favorite blogs, Lifehacker, recently linked to an article about how you can make a DIY (Do It Yourself) solar powered lawn mower, which was originally published by Appropedia here.
Well, it takes a little bit of work because they take you through everything for replacing the actual gas engine with an electrical one [...]



Vines are Fine, Just Fine

By Wesley Joseph • Jun 16th, 2008 • Category: Gardening

While preparing the bed of soil that will be my urban garden in just a few weeks, pulling larger weeds and cutting back the intruding crawling vines, I saw that the vines which just last year were only on the fence behind my apartment building are now also covering the garage and retaining wall.
Why did [...]



A Huge Worm Dump! Awesome!

By Wesley Joseph • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Gardening, Household

You know that feeling after a worm takes a huge dump? Awesome!
Actually, let’s talk about many many worms pooping lots of little bits to make a product called, “Worm Poop.” Disgusting? Look for it at your Home Depot!
TerraCycle is a young company started by two Princeton dropouts, Co-founders Tom Szaky and Jon Beyer, [...]



Greener Under Twenty: Start With Seeds, Not Seedlings

By Wesley Joseph • May 17th, 2008 • Category: Gardening, Household

This entry is part 7 of 7 in the series Greener Under TwentyOh, the ease with which we can stop off at a home improvement store or nursery for plants that have been growing for weeks or months and transplant them very quickly to our backyard gardens. While you won’t hear from us that [...]