Posts Tagged ‘garden’

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!



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!



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 [...]



Greener Under Twenty: Start With Seeds, Not Seedlings

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

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 [...]



Give Gardening a Try

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

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 [...]