How to Go Green: Index

From home and garden to food and health and tech and transport, there are tons of ways we can make our lives greener, and our guides for How to Go Green are here to help. Read on to start greening your life with ease, while understanding why each action is so important. Use these for guidance as you travel down a greener path...Carpe diem kids! Pick one and let's get started...

How to Go Green: Barbeques

Barbequing in the United States has become a national pastime, but almost all regions of the world embrace the tradition in one form or another. So whether you're grilling pork ribs Southern style, breaking out the tofu dogs and veggie burgers, or switching it up on a Japanese-style Hibachi or preparing Indonesian Satay over charcoal, we've put together the info that will help you green your grill time.

Earth Day History and Introduction

Earth day history gives you a sneak peak into Earth day's past. Find out more about how this special day came to be.

How to Go Green: Spring Cleaning

Even the messiest among us get the urge for spring cleaning, and though we don't all act on it, those of us who do should keep the annual scrub-down as green as possible.

How to Go Green: Spring Break

Spring Break began as a training trip in Fort Lauderdale, Florida for college athletes, and has become a rite of passage for students and families. Here's how to go green with your spring break.

How to Go Green: Like Celebrities

Green celebrities can help get the go-green message. Find out more about green celebrities—who they are and what they are doing for the planet.

How to Go Green: Wedding Engagement

The average couple is engaged for 15 months, which means over a year of parties, planning, and wedding preparation. Here's how to have a green wedding engagement.

How to Go Green: Dating

Could dating online help you go green? Find out in our guide to online dating.

How to Go Green: Alternative Energy

Powering and heating your home with alternative and renewable energy sources sounds like a no-brainer when it comes to going green, but deciding which kind of fuel is right for you isn't as simple.

How to Go Green: Skiing and Snowboarding

Skiing and snowboarding are such robust, exhilarating outdoor-oriented pastimes that it just seems wrong to not be green when you hit the slopes. Here's how.

How to Go Green: Work from Home

Working from home can be a great green alternative to a desk in a cubicle, but, as many people who try it will tell you, it isn't as easy as slapping your laptop down on the dining room table.

How to Go Green: Workouts

Before you commit to a workout plan that depends on lots of electricity, automotive transportation, and a bunch of new gear, wait: There's a greener way.

How to Go Green: New Year's

Green new year's is a way to have fun but still be kind to the planet. Get the basics on how to have a green new year.

How to Go Green: Holidays

Green holidays celebrate the season and the planet. Get the basics on an eco-friendly green holiday.

How to Go Green: Cocktails

There is something about sipping on a cocktail surrounded by friends that makes a party feel special. If that cocktail is good for the planet, the experience will be even more special. We tell you how.

How to Go Green: Beers

Beer isn't just the poster beverage for college parties, your after-work wind down, and lazy Sunday afternoons everywhere—no, beer is also a key player in a multi-billion dollar industry that reaches into the far corners of the world. Everyone loves beer—even environmentalists. So gear up, fellow lovers of libations. We're all going to have to start saving the world—one beer at a time.

How to Go Green: Thanksgiving Day

With all the planning, cooking, and cleaning, the last thing you want to think about is greening your Thanksgiving Day, right? But this is the perfect time to reflect and reassess your holiday preparations with a nod to sustainability.

How to Go Green: Gadgets

Green gadgets are better for the environment. Get the basics on why eco-friendly gadgets make a difference.

How to Go Green: Wine

Ever since the days of Julius Caesar, wine has been big business. Here's how to green your wine, from biodynamic growing to organic wine in your glass.

How to Go Green: Dinner Parties

Thinking about throwing a dinner party for your friends? Find out what you need to make it green.

How to Go Green: Halloween

Green Halloween means making this spooky holiday less scary for the environment. Find how to have a green Halloween this year!

How to Go Green: School Teachers

School teachers, listen up! When it comes to how to teach children science, math, and geography, you're the best at it. This is a call for help. You are one of the first lines of defense in the environmental movement. In a few short years, the upcoming generation will decide the fate of this planet.

How to Go Green: Job Searches

Green jobs are for go-getters who set their eyes on eco-friendly careers and a greener planet. Find out more about eco-friendly green jobs and how to get them.

How To Go Green: Commuting

Commuting may be an unavoidable fact of life, but that doesn't mean we have to make the planet suffer. Find out how commuting green can help you save money, make a friend, and help the environment.

How to Go Green: Natural Skin Care

The average person uses 10 different skin care products on his or her body every day - It turns out beauty is more than skin deep. Make your natural skin care green with this guide.

How to Go Green: In the Bathroom

Green bathrooms are great for your home and the environment. Find out why having a green bathroom is so important!

How to Go Green: Dorm Rooms

College dorm rooms may seem like the ultimate green living space: a building designed to house as many people as possible. Still, students turn them into eco-monsters with that they put inside them. Make your's green with our guide.

How to Go Green: Dorm Rooms

College dorm rooms may seem like the ultimate green living space: a building designed to house as many people as possible. Still, students turn them into eco-monsters with that they put inside them. Make your's green with our guide.

How to Go Green: Home Renovation

Green home renovation whips your home into shape and gives the planet a break! Find out how choosing green home renovation can make a huge impact on the environment.

How to Go Green: Back to School

Now that summer is waning, and the days are shortening, many kids (and their parents) are getting ready to go back to school. So, how do you combine school's three R's—that's readin', writin' and 'rithmetic—with the planet's three R's of reduce, reuse, and recycle?

How to Go Green: Bathroom Renovation

Let's face it: the North American bathroom isn't the most glamorous of rooms. But you can make your bathroom spectacular with a green renovation. We'll show you how.

How to Go Green: Hybrid Cars

How to Go Green: Hybrid Cars Everyone knows that our automotive way of life has had a massive impact on the environment. Mild Hybrids Mild Hybrids have drivetrains similar to regular cars, with beefed up starter motors that allow them to turn off the engine to save gas (while stopped at a red light, for example) and to...

How to Go Green: Volunteerism

More than half of American adults - and lots of kids, too - volunteer for various causes. Here's how to make the most of your green volunteering.

Why to Go Green

Here's an in-depth look at the reasons behind why we should go green, and how your everyday green choices can have a far-reaching impact around the globe.

How to Go Green: Laundry

Green laundry helps you lighten your load on the environment while keeping your keeping your clothes clean. Find out how choosing green laundry habits and products can make all the difference.

How to Go Green: Back to Basics

With everyone going green, it is easy to loose sight of the basics. It's important to get started on the eco-path the right way, and our How to Go Green guide is here to help.

How to Go Green: Summer

With the warm weather fully unfurled, you?ve got some free time and some hot summer days before you. That means time off to spend at the beach, with the kids, away on vacation, whatever? You?ve got backyard BBQs, ballgames, trips to the local zoo, and a whole lot more to squeeze in, but you?re not so certain how to make sure your summer vacation is looking and feelings its greenest. So let?s lotion up, put some beer on ice, and get down to business.

How to Go Green: Public Transportation

Public transportation eases congestion, reduce emissions, and gives you plenty of quality time to relax, read or nap during that commute instead of fighting and stressing and feeling the road rage. There's also time to people watch, as well as get to know your neighbors. So, what do we mean by public transportation? Well, for this article we are focusing on buses, trains, planes and ferries/boats, whether used for the daily commute or just to get around. For those of you interested in leaving that car at home, these tips discuss the merits of public transportation as well as offer suggestions for how to expand and improve public transportation in your community.

How to Go Green: In the Kitchen

Eco-friendly, green kitchens are great for the environment and for your home. Find out why having an eco-friendly, green kitchen in your home is so important.

How to Go Green: In the Community

Green communities come together for their cause and for the good of the neighborhood. Find out how green communities can make a difference.

How to Go Green: Home Heating

Green heating is great for your home and the environment. Find out how choosing eco-friendly heating can make a positive impact on the environment.

How to Go Green: Home Electronics

As electronics have become smaller, they have become more ubiquitous in our lives. Make sure your home electronics are green with our guide on How to Go Green: Home Electronics.

How to Go Green: Eating

Eating green is good for the planet and your body. Get started with our guide to How to Go Green: Eating.

How to Go Green: Dishwashers

Green dishwashing is no greenwash. Start today with the tips in our How to Go Green: Dishwashing.

How to Go Green: Books (for Publishers)

The last time you walked into a bookstore it probably didn't feel much like a forest—but for all the trees used in those pages, it could be. Book publishers have a lot to do to make their business greener. This guide tells you where to start.

How to Go Green: Books (for Authors)

Authors looking to publish a book don't usually shop for a green publisher. Still, authors can do their part towards making book publishing green. Here's how.

How to Go Green: Gardening

Eco-friendly gardening makes you and your garden green. Find out how your green choices make a difference.

How to Go Green: Carbon Offsets

Talk of climate change is everywhere and carbon offsets are commonly suggested as the best way to stop the process. Carbon offsets help reduce your carbon footprint, but how do you get started? Our How to Go Green guide has everything you need.

How to Go Green: Weddings

A wedding is one of the most important days in a couple?s life. If you care about the planet, why not integrate your green principles into your big day?

How to Go Green: Fashion Accessories

Green fashion accessories keep you looking good and do less damage to the environment. Find out more about green fashion and why it's so important.

How to Go Green: Recycling

Recycling got its start almost four decades ago, a U.S. paper company wanted a symbol to communicate its products' recycled content to customers. The design competition they held was won by Gary Anderson, a young graphic designer from the University of Southern California. His entry, based on the Mobius strip (a shape with only one side and no end) is now universally recognized as the symbol for recycling. To many people, recycling conjures up the blue plastic bins and bottle drives. But recycling is a design principal, a law of nature, a source of creativity, and a source of prosperity. For anyone looking to make recycling a more integral part of their lives, this guide is an overview of the basic legwork as well as some of the finer and more advanced concepts that have emerged in recent years.

How to Go Green: Coffee & Tea

A cup of coffee or tea starts the morning for most of us, but could this morning ritual be made greener? Find out how to go green with coffee and tea.

How to Go Green: Outdoor Sports

We love playing outdoor sports in our wild, outdoor places. The problem is, we?re loving those places to death. Flying to visit the distant ones is contributing carbon dioxide to the ever-growing greenhouse gas overload; all the clobber we take with us demands greater extraction of diminishing resources both to manufacturer and to reach us in our homes; and when we arrive at our beloved open-air domains, our combined weight is directly impacting already fragile ecosystems.

How to Go Green: Pets

Your pets, Snookiepuss and Mrs. Fluffypants are practically family, right? Treat them right with green pet foods and products, and throw the planet a bone while you?re at it; we?ve got the goods on how to reduce your pets? carbon paw prints?without making your wallet roll over and play dead.

How to Go Green: Babies

A new baby entering your life can create an enormous number of unexpected changes. Our How to Go Green guide helps you make them changes for the greener.

How to Go Green: Women's Personal Care

Personal care products-- cleansing and cosmetics, hair care, skin care, makeup, hair removal -- can be full of toxic ingredients. Here's how to go green with women's personal care. We are bombarded daily with the coaxing of the worldwide cosmetics industry as it tries to sell us products which guarantee to make us look younger, thinner, and more gorgeous. Sadly, these products are not regulated to a level that would make most people feel very safe. Many of these products contain ingredients with dubious implications (many of which are petroleum derived), as well as potentially toxic agents that are not even included on the label. There are, however, easy and affordable alternatives available to every consumer.

How to Go Green: Furniture

Eco-friendly furniture adds a touch of glamor to your home or office and keeps you on good terms with the environment. Find out how choosing green furniture can make a positive impact on the planet.

How to Go Green: Water

There is no resource more precious than water. Safe drinking water, healthy ecosystems, and a stable food supply are a few of the things at stake as our water supply is put under greater and greater stress.

How to Go Green: Cleaning

Cleaning is something we all have to do but it doesn't have to be hard on the environment. Find out how to clean the green way with our guide to How to Go Green: Cleaning.

How to Go Green: Electricity

Electricity is something we all use but rarely think about. Unless the bill is too high or the service shuts off, we don't pay attention. Still, making sure your electricity use is green is important for the environment. Get started with this guide.

How to Go Green: Home Buying

Green house hunting means finding a home that fits you and the environment. Find out how to have a positive impact on the planet while green house hunting.

How to Go Green: Lighting

Green eco-friendly lighting illuminates your world and lessens your burden on your environment. Find out how choosing green lighting can make a positive impact on the planet.

How to Go Green: Funerals

Green funerals and eco-burials have a lesser impact on the earth than traditional burial and cremation practices. While death can be a difficult subject, keeping ethical beliefs and environmental convictions in mind while tending to end-of-life arrangements can create a meaningful send-off—not to mention a lower-impact one. After all, if you gotta go, why not go green?

How to Go Green: Kids' Toys

Green toys are fun for kids and great for the environment. Find out how choosing eco-friendly green toys can make a huge impact.

How to Go Green: Cars

Cars are one of the great mixed bags of our time. They are at once wonders of engineering and a threat to life on Earth. Fortunately, going green with your car is easy with our guide.

How to Go Green: Wardrobe

Learn how to green your wardrobe from head to toe, and learn to find green fashion that fits your style and doesn't harm the planet. Here's the irony: fashion is ephemeral while fabric and pollution are not.

How to Go Green: Sex

Whether you're single and playing the field or settled down with that special someone, most of us consider good, green, sexy sex an important part of this complete breakfast.

How to Go Green: At Work

A greener workplace can mean a lighter ecological footprint, a healthier and more productive place to work, and good news for the bottom line. Our How to Go Green guide gets you started.

How to Go Green: Investing

Green investing means investing in your planet and your future. Find out what a positive impact you can make with green investing.