Articles tagged “Sustainable Flowers”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

Flowers For Your Valentine: How Not to Threaten Flamingos and Exploit People in the Process By Rachel Cernansky IN Home & Garden Feb 10 2010 Most industrial flowers are grown with at least a dozen pesticides and picked by people working essentially in outdoor sweatshops. + READ MORE

7 Green Gifts to Wow Your Thanksgiving Dinner Host By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Home & Garden Nov 18 2009 Instead of picking up the usual hostess gift, look for eco-friendly alternatives. It may sound like extra work, but with so many green products available, it's more about thinking green as you shop. + READ MORE

Celebrate National Honey Bee Awareness Day By Collin Dunn IN Food & Health Aug 21 2009 Today, Saturday, August 22, is the first ever National Honey Bee Awareness Day. While bees are perhaps best known for keeping the world supplied with honey, the amazing striped insects deserving of their own day of awareness for a variety of other reasons, too. + READ MORE

Spritz Your Garden—and Watch it Grow—with Compost Tea By Jessica Root IN Home & Garden Jun 22 2009 We all know compost is great for enriching a garden?s soil bed, but did you know it provides a lovely liquid fertilizer, too? Dilute some of your compost into a homebrewed, nutrient-dense tea to nourish, treat and fertilize your most prized plants. + READ MORE

Found Flowers: The Perfect Eco-Alternative to Cut-Flowers By Cara Smusiak, NaturallySavvy.com IN Travel & Outdoors Jun 12 2009 Who doesn't love some pretty flowers on a windowsill, table or desk? Somehow they just transform any space, making it more fresh and lively. But cut flowers are expensive. And between the giant carbon footprint, fair trade issues and the pesticides used, I have some reservations about purchasing cut flowers. Sure, I could buy organic flowers, but the bottom line goes up even more. So what's a flower-loving girl on a budget to do? + READ MORE

New Yorkers: Go Native with NYC Wildflower Week By Jessica Root IN Travel & Outdoors May 5 2009 If the rainy, concrete blues have you close to bashing your head against a wall, how about a little flora therapy to brighten your mood? Uplift yourself with a vibrant event taking place this week, May 2-9: NYC?s second annual Wildflower Week. + READ MORE

Deal with Dandelions the Eco-Friendly Way By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Apr 2 2009 For a weed, dandelions are attractive. But alas and alack, they are considered a weed and get treated thusly. Therefore, when societal pressure forces you to rid your yard of dandelions, do it in an eco-friendly manner. Here's how: + READ MORE

Deliver Your Flowers Yourself By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Mar 26 2009 Giving a girl flowers is a pretty sure way to make her smile. Even your most tomboyish lady (cough cough, that would be me) enjoys an array of flowers here and there. I think they're beautiful. And I know that's subjective. But I also know a whole lot of ladies out there who agree with me. + READ MORE

Spring is Here, Start Bulb Planting By Sara Novak IN Home & Garden Mar 23 2009 How do you know when it's time to plant bulbs? Easy, look outside and see that the daffodils have started to sprout. If so, that means you're good to go. If you have some bulbs leftover from last year, it's best not to plant them because there is a good chance that they won't sprout and you will have wasted your energy for something that won't grow. + READ MORE

5 Ways to Keep Deer out of Your Yard By Josh Peterson IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 20 2009 Deer do not belong in your yard. Majestic as deer are, your yard is not a good place for them. Here are a few eco-friendly ways to keep the deer in the wilderness where they belong. + READ MORE

Go Guerrilla Gardening: It's the Greenest Kind of Vandalism By Brian Merchant IN Travel & Outdoors Mar 10 2009 Okay, so it sounds like an oxymoron—but at least it has the alliteration going for it. War Flowering simply never had a chance. But guerilla gardening is a very real phenomenon that's picking up steam in urban areas around the world. So what the hell is it? + READ MORE

Skip Valentine's Day, and Still Please Your Lover: 4 Ways By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Feb 11 2009 For some of us, Valentine's Day is a nice reason to show someone you love how much you care for them. It isn't about extravagant gifts or outlandish plans; there are no pink packages or candy hearts involved. + READ MORE

Make Origami Flower Bouquets from Recycled Paper By Jaymi Heimbuch IN Home & Garden Dec 15 2008 While we're sure you'll be following suggestions on alternative wrapping, it's likely you'll still have quite a bit of used wrapping paper around you after the holidays. Here's a great way to put it all to use, as well as any brightly colored paper you come across during the year! Turn it into beautiful flower bouquets! + READ MORE

Turn this Junk into Vase Perfect for Work By Elizabeth Seward IN Work & Connect Dec 12 2008 I've learned something about myself that may very well apply to you too: plants brighten up my mood. Something about having a plant nearby calms me and there's scientific evidence supporting that I'm not insane for thinking so. + READ MORE

Avoid These Wedding Eco Demons for a Greener Wedding By Sara Novak IN Fashion & Beauty Oct 22 2008 Wedding budgets can get ridiculous and I know because I just got married. Costs get out of control incredibly fast, almost as fast as your carbon footprint. With a few easy steps you can control your impact and save tons of money to spend on your first down payment. Remember what's important, getting your friends and family together to celebrate?not the plastic parting gifts. + READ MORE

Plant the New Pretenders CD Packaging, Grow Flowers By Brian Merchant IN Travel & Outdoors Oct 13 2008 Pretenders fans already know that the group's long-awaited album Break Up the Concrete is coming out this month. But did you know that if you plant the paper the CD comes packaged in, it will literally grow roots and sprout flowers? + READ MORE

G Word Video: Green My Palate By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Sep 26 2008 In this video, G Word correspondent Stephen Brooks takes a look at delicious fruits that may be growing on a tree or bush near you. He begins his search in San Diego, California, where, on a casual stroll through town, he finds several edible fruits and flowers growing naturally. + READ MORE

Skip the Cut Flowers; Choose Eco-Friendly Succulent Plants By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Aug 7 2008 Green interior designer, Ryann Davis, recently presented a fabulous alternative to wasteful cut flowers, a $40 billion a year industry that's doing major ecological damage, on Supper Club. Her company Succulentla is a floral design firm based on the succulent plant. A succulent plant is a water-retaining plant adapted to arid climates or soil conditions. + READ MORE

Making Your Own Perfume By Elizabeth Seward IN Fashion & Beauty Jul 29 2008 Women tend to love perfume--myself included. It makes sense that we love it so much. The fragrance is typically derived from some of the most beautiful things on the planet. However, like most commercial goods, producing and manufacturing perfumes takes up quite a bit of energy. In addition to energy, the bottles--whether plastic or glass--also require resources and energy to produce. + READ MORE

Eco-Life After Death By Natalie Cook IN Travel & Outdoors Jul 28 2008 Aside from being one of man's greatest mysteries and Notorious B.I.G.'s second album, Life After Death is a concept environmentalists consider when it comes to the funeral process. Both Tommy Lee and Ludicrus threw music-style green funerals on Battleground Earth. So how can we memorialize loved ones in a way that supports the ecosystem? Can we have a planet-positive process to say "good-bye?" + READ MORE