Everything a green yogi needs for his/her green earth-lovin’ practice. Mats: EM4 4 mm Yoga Mat: “Eco Yoga, a UK-based company, has created a natural mat that does not contain any PVC. The mat has a pure rubber underside that grips the floor and a jute fabric/rubber mix on top. The fabric gives a highly [...]
If your compost pile is starting to stink or get flies in this hot weather you may need to add more grass clippings or leaves to it. Also, nightcrawlers help your compost breakdown faster. They should come on their own, but if they don’t you can buy them.
After almost 4 years of being married I finally brought my wedding dress in to get dry cleaned. I brought it to my local green dry cleaners, Hawthorne Cleaners in Glen Ellyn, IL. I haven’t been a big fan of dry cleaning since I found out that they actually did dry clean your clothes (I [...]
How can contentment help the planet? It’s simple. By learning to be content with where we are in the moment and what we have, we may naturally find that we become less hungry for material possessions. The urge to buy a new pair of shoes, sheets, or whatever else it may be often arises in [...]
I mentioned in my post, The History of Organic Farming, that with the 21st century there came a surge in the popularity of organic products. The growing popularity of organics and hard work of those within the organic community has made organics a multi-billion dollar industry. Unfortunately, this has drawn those who want to reap [...]
It has been on my list to write a post on gas powered lawnmowers. Idealbite just made it a lot easier by doing the work for me and sending it write to my inbox as today’s daily tip. Here you go (You can view the tip in its original form on their site.): The Benefits [...]
I both practice and teach yoga and I have been excited about the increasing awareness within the yoga community of our connection to this earth as it specifically relates to our need to take care of the environment. In the May 2006 issue of Yoga Journal, Magdalena Winter in talking with Laura Cornell, took a [...]
Organic farming is not a mark of alternative culture that appeared in the 60′s with those granola-eating-hippies–you know the ones I’m talking about–only to “sell-out” when it recently came into style as the en vogue food of choice among the wealthy-upper-class-elites who can afford to shop at the high-end grocery stores. I repeat, this is [...]