The seeds from the fruits and vegetables you consume have other uses other than being planted. Here are some unconventional ideas:Washing DetergentSave up all your fruits and vegetable seeds and peels and stuff them into a plastic bottle. Add equal amounts of molasses to the concoction and fill the bottle two thirds full. Release the ...
Getting Involved In Rooftop Gardening
Don\'t get envious of high end condominium residents which have bountiful of rooftop gardens just yet. You can create your own lovely rooftop garden with your midas touch you have always dreamt of. As long as you get the green light about the zoning from your local government, you are good to start working on ...
Reusing Household Items
By reusing household items, not only are you saving money by not having to buy new things, you are also helping to keep the environment alive by reducing wastage as well as the energy needed to dispose off these unwanted items. Here are a few tips on how you can reuse common household items:Tennis BallsDo ...
Avoiding to Create Groundwater Pollution
Heard of mercury poison? That\'s just one of the few groundwater contaminations. The truth\'s contamination occurs when natural or manmade substances permeate groundwater. The consequence of this is that water becomes unusable for consumption.There are several causes of groundwater pollution. Most common ones are improper management of waste including industrial chemicals and poor septic system. ...
Building a solar powered birdbath
If you care about your neighborhood birds and want to provide them with a regular place to bath and drink, building a birdbath in your backyard or garden is the solution. If you are living in a wintery place, the water in your birdbath will freeze when the winter comes. You can install heaters for ...
Preventing Water Pollution at Home
Nowadays, there are a lot of water-saving appliances and water conservation systems in the market such as rain barrels, drip irrigation and on-demand water heaters which are of course more expensive, but if you know and apply the correct ways water saving methods would be able to be achieved with only a little cost. Water ...
Saving water at home
You will be able to pay low water bills if you manage to conserve more water for your household, plus it also helps reduce water pollution of your surrounding environment. Nowadays, the running water provided to every household is definitely is a valuable resource that enables almost endless list of applications and uses in and ...
Saving water in the bathroom
Nowadays the consumption of water is growing by the day while our water supply is starting to decrease due to several reasons. In an effort to help solve this global environmental situation, we need to start to conserve the usage starting from our own bathroom. The efficient usage of water from the bathrooms will definitely ...
Saving water when gardening
For saving water in your garden, you need to plan first what type of plants you are planting in your garden whether it is appropriate or not for your environment and is it necessary for the plant to be watered regularly. You can also gather information on drought tolerant plants (such as hebes, lavenders, buddleias ...
Removing Soil Pollution around a Leaky Oil Tank
Oil is one of the common sources of heating which is often found in every household. If you notice that your oil tank is having a leakage, you must know what action to take, deal with the situation and immediately protect the environment because a leaky oil tank can cause your surrounding soil polluted. In ...
Recycle Cans
Aluminum cans are the most favorite recycled materials among consumer nowadays. It is also easier to recycle cans because in most public areas you will find recycling containers next to the garbage containers. Besides that, you can also receive a small amount of money for recycling cans from your buy-back recycling center. If you recycle ...
Reuse in Remodeling
When it is time for your house to get a facelift, think of all the alternatives before you remove everything and throw them in the dumpster because chances are you could be relinquishing some good old treasure.Think FirstFirst of all, do some research before you start to tear down the old stuffs. Think of the ...
Start Going Green with Recycling Bins
Do SomethingEveryone talks about going green. Everyone talks about recycling. What should you do about it then? If your local authority does not run a recycling program and you have no tools to support your initiative, get recycling bins. These are great helpers to keep your mind to throw your different rubbish into different bins.Spread ...
Recycle Wood
Trees that we can find all over the world plays a very important role especially in sustaining the earth environment. It absorbs all the carbon dioxide and provides oxygen to us, plus also giving shades to humans, livestock, small plants and animals. That is why we should give high importance to the need of recycling ...
