All Entries in the "Home & Garden" Category
Eco-Friendly Cabinets for Your Modern Kitchen
Kitchen renovation seems to be the activity of this season. Here are a few places where you can shop for environmental friendly kitchen cabinets and accessories. 1. EcoUrban EcoUrban is a brand that uses environment friendly cabinets in affordable wood veneer and stainless steel. The materials are sourced domestically and free from formaldehyde-based substrates and [...]
Alternative Building Methods for Eco-housing
With so much junk to deal with and so many homeless people around the world, eco-housing has become the need of the hour. Here are some alternative building methods which are foundations for various eco-housing projects around the world. 1. Earthship Home Earthship home is one of the pioneers in the subject of alternative building [...]
How to Spruce Up Your Home with Eco-Friendly Paint
If you are planning on a painting job in your house or office, then it is time to consider eco-friendly paints as an option. In this context eco-friendly paint means those with low volatile organic compounds (VOC). All paints are chemical based and many of these chemicals have large concentrations of organic compounds which release [...]
How to Remove Tough Stains without Using Dangerous Chemicals
While it may seem like an easy option to use shop-bought chemicals to clean your home, these products often contain harmful chemicals that are bad for your skin as well as the environment. There are a number of very simple ways of cleaning most things in your home in an ecological fashion, so without further [...]
Improve Your Home’s Efficiency with the Right Window Treatments
Window treatments are often one of the best ways to accent or complete the design of a room, and trying to find the perfect ones is rarely an easy task. However, besides increasing aesthetic, the right window coverings and treatments can greatly increase the energy efficiency of your windows, and you don’t have to sacrifice a [...]
Nature Inspired Living Habitats: 6 Awesome Examples
When it comes to the problems of architecture, there are a lot of professionals who turn to nature to find solutions. The result of ‘biomimicry’ doesn’t only consist of interesting looking buildings, but this way it is also easier to integrate the buildings into an eco-friendly system. (photo credit: www.ecofriend.com) 1. Fake Hills Fake Hills [...]
Grow Your Own Organic Vegetables
Before we can even start thinking about growing organic fruits or vegetables, there is another factor that we have to consider: organic soil. This is the most important aspect of gardening that is sometimes overlooked by the beginner gardeners. In case the soil has a high quality, you will be able to grow the vegetables [...]
How to Use a Propagator the Green Way
Most probably you have heard about propagators before, but you may not know which one to choose for different purposes. You should know that there are different kinds of them, and in the end you just have to choose the one that works best for your purposes. Vitopod heated propagators This is a propagator that has [...]
All the Right Reasons to Build a Glasshouse
Have you been doing the same thing in your garden, year after year? Would you like to change the routine? Maybe it is time to make a change and try getting a glasshouse. Getting one could mean a great new project for you, and they could ensure you that you have access to organically grown [...]
2011 Solar Decathlon is On
Usually when it comes to building energy economic houses the most important counter argument is that the initial investment is so large that only a few people could even think about getting such houses. Nonetheless the winning project of the 2011 Solar Decathlon has proven people wrong from this point of view. It has been [...]
