Articles tagged “Water Conservation”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           

How to Attack Viruses with Herbs, Spices and Food By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Oct 15 2008 Among all things I love so much during Fall and Winter months, there is also the presence of something I do not covet as dearly—the perpetual sneezing, runny nose fluid, swollen throat, and painful cough often associated with the common cold. So, here are a few natural solutions suggested by various health professionals that help prevent the common foe from thriving or invading our bodies in the first place. + READ MORE

A Shower of Green: 4 Tips for a Greener Rinse By Brian Merchant IN Home & Garden Oct 15 2008 One helpful way of moving towards a more eco-friendly lifestyle is to take a look at which steps of your daily routine could use a little greening. And one fine place to start is with your (hopefully) daily shower. + READ MORE

Neckties and other Lesser Known Eco Evils By Josh Peterson IN Work & Connect Oct 13 2008 We should all know by now that water bottles, plastic bags, aerosol cans and auto emissions are bad for the environment. Cars are polluting the sky, and we still drive them and buy gas and use plastic bags and shoot aerosol-powered deodorant into our armpits. We are trying to knock it off, but these things take time. + READ MORE

Why You Need a Rain Gauge and How to Build One By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Oct 10 2008 A lot of us city folk could care less about the amount of rain that falls. When rain falls here in Los Angeles, all it means to me is stay off the freeway. In farm communities, however, rain is ridiculously important. At your local filling station, the farmers will be gathered around the Lotto machines talking about the rainfall their farmsteads have received. + READ MORE

Try These Eco Friendly Grass Varieties for a Greener Lawn By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Oct 9 2008 I don't know why grass is the proper plant for yards. Perhaps it is because grass is verdant-looking and easy-to-manage. I suppose a wheat yard might look messy and a yard composed of nothing but lambsquarter would be positively nightmarish. + READ MORE

2 Alternatives to Rain Barrels, if You've Got Something Against Rain Barrels By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Oct 3 2008 Some people are tired of barrels. I would guess that the Italian fellow from Donkey Kong is very sick of barrels what with that ape always hurling them. Barrel coopers probably need to take a rousing vacation away from their stock of moderately priced barrels from time to time. + READ MORE

7 Questions You Need to Answer to Conserve Water Now By Elizabeth Seward IN Home & Garden Sep 29 2008 Conserving water is something that every person should make a habit of doing. It can be hard, however, particularly if you're not the person who pays your water bill. However, conserving water is incredibly important. We don't always remember the tips we were taught when young about how to save water. So just to remind you of some things you can do that you may not have thought of already, check out this these tips. + READ MORE

Don't DIY: Car Washing By Josh Peterson IN Tech & Transport Sep 29 2008 Doing it yourself is a popular green technique often undertaken by yourself and others like yourself. Sometimes, however, it is best to leave things to the professionals. Don't practice medicine on yourself. Don't get behind the cockpit of plane with no flight experience, even if you think that you know the greenest way to get somewhere and don't wash your own car at home. + READ MORE

Did You Know?: Teeth Brushing By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Sep 24 2008 Teeth, sometimes called hard, bitey mouth rocks, need to be cleaned three times a day due to the fact that our mouths often suffer from foodfullness at mealtimes. Consuming food can coat choppers with a layer of cuisine-debris, and the nutritional mess must be brushed away before a cavity is formed. + READ MORE

Stuff Happens Video: Don't Flush Away the Environment By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Sep 22 2008 How much water does your toilet use? How do toilets even work? Where does all that water and waste go after you flush it down? What is the environmental impact of all that flushing? Bill Nye explains all when he takes a close look at the bathroom and toilets in this online clip from Stuff Happens. + READ MORE

Trust Your Tap Water By Josh Peterson IN Food & Health Sep 19 2008 Remember that day years ago, when your father or grandfather spied bottled water in the supermarket? I bet he laughed. "Who would buy that?" he asked. "What a scam." Now, it's like twenty years later, and bottled water has become an environmental scourge. It was a bad idea taken to an extreme. It almost seems like it should be a plot from a really bad science fiction novel that stars a character named Dirk Dashing. + READ MORE

Battleground Earth Episode: Wet and Wild By Team Planet Green IN Battleground Earth Sep 18 2008 Comedian Wayne Brady meets the ecorages at the shrinking Lake Meade and introduces them to the topic of the episode: water conservation. He challenges them to get Vegas residents to conserve water and go a little greener. This episode... + READ MORE

Roadie Blog, Week 7, Wet and Wild By Team Planet Green IN Battleground Earth Sep 15 2008 It's sunny in Lake Mead, a gentle 106 degrees under a cloudless and sweltering sky as the buses pull up in front of Wayne Brady. I'm so excited when I see him; I've watched every episode of Who's Line... + READ MORE

Did You Know?: Skip By Team Planet Green IN Fashion & Beauty Sep 11 2008 Unlike most women, men have the ability to grow facial hair well. A clean-shaven jaw is a sign of professionalism in the business world, but a lot of successful people have had beards: Darwin, Moses, Marx, Da Vinci, Lincoln, Pericles and Aquaman circa 1994. + READ MORE

Green Glossary: Watershed By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors Sep 8 2008 Scientist geographer John Wesley Powell defines a watershed as "that area of land, a bounded hydrologic system, within which all living things are inextricably linked by their common water course and where, as humans settled, simple logic demanded that they become part of a community." + READ MORE

Did You Know?: Showers By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Sep 4 2008 Water seems as if it is everywhere: In our bathtubs, in our balloons, in our oceans and in our jars labeled WATER. Even our bodies are sixty percent water. When a person drinks a glass of water, they are, in fact, committing sixty percent cannibalism. Yes. Water is a seemingly ubiquitous substance. + READ MORE

Organic Mulch, an Easy, Free Garden Booster By Jeannine Ouellette IN Home & Garden Aug 28 2008 Mulching your organic garden is probably easier than you may think, and can be accomplished for practically free. Mulching helps make your home gardening efforts less work and more productive, so you can put your energy and creativity into growing more of what you love, whether that?s peonies or chili peppers. + READ MORE

Focus Earth: August 23, 2008 By Team Planet Green IN Focus Earth Aug 22 2008 This week, Bob and the Focus Earth team bring you eco-reports from the city, the sea, and everywhere in between. Get the facts on the environmental legacy the 2008 Olympic Games will leave behind in Beijing, go deep into the... + READ MORE

Ready, Set, Green, Week Six: Dressing Up By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jul 23 2008 I have always washed all my clothes in cold water?mostly because I'm just one person and I never have enough whites for a whole load of hot water. I'd rather throw everything in together and only take up two machines at the Laundromat than separate my lights and darks and spend the entire afternoon. + READ MORE

Ready, Set, Green, Week Five: One Drip at a Time By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Jul 23 2008 When it comes to greening our home, I'm pretty limited. I have good intentions, but we rent an apartment, so I'm not in a place where I can replace appliances, add solar panels, or change anything about the heating system. + READ MORE