EnviroHumanImpact

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

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

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

Oh, 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 this is bad for the environment, there is a cheaper way to [...]

Looking to make your indoor environment cleaner? Sure, you can use greener household detergents and cosmetics. You can use greener paints with lower or no volatile organic compound (VOC) output. But there will always be toxins in your air from the outdoors, everyday products, your carpet, paint, cosmetics, leather treatments, etc.
To help your [...]

We have all seen the calls to “eat local,” and with food costs skyrocketing, there’s one more reason to do a little gardening. But, costs aside, eating locally grown foods is better for the environment chiefly because less energy was spent shipping it to your table.
We will delve further into the locavore (or, to [...]