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Go Green with 7/17 Tip + Best Green Pinterest Pin of The Week

Today’s Tip from The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference: Try the 100-mile diet. On average, the ingredients you use to make your favorite meal travel 1,500 miles before they reach your plate.  The abundance of fresh fruits and veggies available in the summer makes it the perfect time to try the 100-mile diet — eating foods that were grown within 100 miles of your … [Read more...]

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Go Green with This Week’s Tip + Green Pinterest Pin of The Week

Today’s Tip from The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference: Toss your used coffee grounds in the garden. Coffee grounds make excellent fertilizer of nitrogen-loving plants like roses, azaleas, and blueberries.  Sprinkle the grounds around your plants before your water to create an instant slow-release fertilizer.  You can also add coffee grounds to your compost … [Read more...]

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Go Green with June 26th Tip

Today’s Tip from The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference: Design your garden to take advantage of storm-water run off. Rain gardens are built near driveways and rooftops to capture the rainwater that would otherwise end up flowing into storm drains.  Compared to a regular patch of lawn, a rain garden allows about 30 percent more water to soak into the ground, which … [Read more...]

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Go Green With 6/19 Tip + Fave “green” Pinterest Pin of The Week

Today’s Tip from The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference: Get rid of garden pests naturally. Natural pest control is almost always as effective as chemical pesticides.  More importantly, it does not harm the environment.  The residue from chemical pesticides eventually ends up in lakes and rivers where it can be ingested by local wildlife.  Harsh chemicals can also … [Read more...]

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Go Green with 6/12 Tip + Fave “Green” Pinterest Pin of The Week!

Today’s Tip from The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference: Use ice to sharpen the blades in your garbage disposal. Instead of using food waste like peach pits to sharpen garbage disposal blades, use ice.  Ice is safer because it won't harm aquatic life when it reaches streams and lakes. Since our house sold and I've started packing I've been daydreaming about … [Read more...]

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Go Green with 6/5 Tip + Fave “Green” Pinterest Pin of The Week!

Today’s Tip from The Green Year: 365 Small Things You Can Do to Make a Big Difference: Remove the screensaver from your computer. A screensaver uses 100 watts of power, compared with just 10 watts in sleep mode.  Consider this: a company with 5,000 computers that have screensavers running 20 hours per week uses emissions totaling 750,000 pounds of carbon dioxide, more than 5,800 pounds of … [Read more...]