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When your children repeatedly beg you to compost, your options are limited. After all, “No, because Mommy and Daddy don’t care about preserving the Earth for you, your children and your children’s children,” is not the message most parents are trying to send.
The time to compost had come.
This long NYT piece is part essay about overcoming psychological barriers, part product guide for aspiring composters.
DIY project du jour:
Turn old door knobs into useful hooks.
(photo: Not Just a Housewife blog)
DIY Instant Closet from Chairs
This really is incredibly clever. The chairs are a simple wooden folding variety and are not permanently affixed to the wall. Yet when opened they stabilize, hold boxes of loose articles and are the perfect width from the wall to hang even the most bulky of garments.
The entire article Re-Thinking Furniture: Innovative Design Explorations by Yi Cong Lu from Core77 is a good read and full of clever designs.
Don’t forget that April 22nd is Earth Day, so check out just some of events going on in every corner of the state. Saving the environment isn’t just for hippies (not that there’s anything wrong with them), it involves all of us and you can really make a difference. ;)
4 Ways to Celebrate Earth Day in Palm Beach County
Florida Department of Environmental Protection Event
Conservancy of Southwest Florida
Earth Day Events for the Florida Keys
USF Botanical Gardens & Sierra Club Tampa Bay
Listings at Florida State Parks
Going home this weekend? Check out these links to see what sort of Earth Day activities are in your part of Florida!!
4 simple ways to slay energy vampires at home
Vampire energy — or phantom load — is the energy that is used by appliances that have a standby function (like microwaves and TV’s) or are designed to draw no-load power (consuming power without offering any features — like a toaster).
These energy vampires are sucking the life out of your electric bill too.
Fortunately, any consumer can be turned into the finest Buffy-esque vampire energy slayer with the most minimal of training and weapons.
DOES THIS REALLY WORK?! MIND BLOWING.
One of the most Eco-friendly way to prevent ants from getting close to sweet stuff as illustrated above.
With a rope made up of elastic bands that circled around those cans of condensed milk, as what I learnt, is one such effective way without using pesticide.
They actually have them in all the stores!!! They also have this AWESOME section to their website—> http://www6.homedepot.com/ecooptions/index.html?
:D!!
For those wondering where to recycle CFLs, here’s a convenient bin. #cfl #recycle #dispose #bulbs (Taken with Instagram at Home Depot, Alakawa)
The dirty little secret about our tech love? It’s not an environmentally friendly relationship.
In fact, our mobile phones have been blamed for causing bee suicide, contain toxic chemicals that are impossible to recycle and a version of rechargeable green batteries seems to be a…
GE’s plan to make rooftop solar more affordable
Today, the average cost of installing a solar system on a typical home is $6.50 per watt, or $32,500. We want to cut the cost by more than half. At less than half the price, solar systems will be practical for millions of homeowners in the United States, Charlie Korman, manager of solar energy programs at GE Global Research, said in a release Wednesday. To achieve such a radical cost reduction, new technologies are needed to simplify and standardize how solar installations are made. The process has to be as routine as putting a new roof on your home.
Paul Higgins: a much better approach than massive subsidies that cost way too much per tonne of carbon, or shaming people into adoption.
Full Story: Smartplanet
Infographic: Green Home Improvements That Pay You Back
(Source: One Block Off The Grid)
