Nov 18th, 2008
Sustainable News
Are you looking for eco-friendly jobs or the latest green news on travel, architecture, cars, fashion and beauty? Tree Hugger is a comprehensive green site that can help you get informed on the environmental issues you care about. You can also look into the lives of other environmentalists by watching some video eco-tips. Tree Hugger’s readers have sent in videos showing their green habits and green hacks (renovations). You can learn how to make recycled paper, how to teach children to compost and various other ways to be more sustainable.
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Oct 28th, 2008
Drive Smarter Challenge
Take the Drive Smarter Challenge by entering basic information about your car’s make, model and year. By following the six money saving tips that are presented, you can potentially save hundreds of dollars per year. For example, did you know that you could save up to 20 gallons of gasoline annually by keeping your tires properly inflated? Also, if you’re an aggressive driver, taming your jackrabbit starts at green lights can lower your gas mileage by 33 percent. After you challenge yourself, challenge a friend and receive coupons to AutoZone. Go go drivesmarterchallenge.org.
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Sep 26th, 2008
Green Guide
National Geographic has launched a Green Guide, which provides various tips on how to be environmentally conscious. Whether you are building a new home or renovating a current one, there are buying guides to help you make more eco-friendly decisions about certain materials. Or if you have children going back to school, there is a feature on how to keep the classroom pollution free. Maybe you already know ways to be green, so test your knowledge by completing a quiz on saving gas or seasonal foods. If you are not sure how to deal with plastic and household cleaners, ask a question or see if it has already been answered in the Just Ask section of the guide. Go to thegreenguide.com.
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Sep 24th, 2008
British model, Keeley Hazell is not only gorgeous, but she’s eco-friendly too. Keeley just helped the Sun Newspaper give away over 4 million energy saving lightbulbs and the model is a staunch activist for saving the planet with more eco-friendly practices. She also finds time to model Green bikinis too.
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Sep 23rd, 2008
Many of us are so busy renovating our homes to conserve energy, driving a new Smart Car, and even composting, but we fall short when it comes to skincare. Most drugstore brands comtain chemicals that may contribute to breast cancer and many other ailments. Your best all natural, green skincare secrets may be hiding in your kitchen cupboard.
- Avocados - Avocados are not only delicious, but they are considered a good fat to eat. Consider a moisturizing avocado facial mask. Smash up a ripe avocado with some honey and royal jelly. Leave on your face for 20 minutes, then rinse off. Your face will be baby smooth with a natural glow.
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Sep 19th, 2008
As the economy continues to get more challenging for all of us here in the states, it’s time to start thinking about reducing debt and getting on stable ground. This is more important now than ever. Here are some tips to help get you started:
- Say No to credit - Even if you have a ton of credit cards with high limits, get used to spending cash for purchases instead. Spending cash can save you years of paying on the interest on credit cards.
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Sep 16th, 2008
Living a Zen Lifestyle includes achieving it in the workplace as well. This may be easier said than done, but this article may help you get on the path to success in the workplace. Achieving zen at the office has more to do with living up to your bosses’ expectations. Everyone is an induvidual, valuing different traits, and have various ways of handling different office issue. The workplace is an excellent area to practice Organization and Mindfulness.
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Sep 14th, 2008
I think by now we all know that cell phones work by involving radio waves “made up of electromagnetic radiation propagated by the antenna.” Logically, this has raised many questions regarding potential health risks to cell phone users.
While no one has a concrete answer on how to Green our much needed cell phones, there is now an earth friendly answer to recharging them which goes by the name of the Solio Solar Charger. These green chargers give you unlimited power because it uses the always available renewable resource of the sun to power your electronic devices from cell phones to GPS systems. The Solio is also considered a hybrid, accepting power from either the wall socket or the sun, storing this energy within Solio’s internal rechargeable battery. Solio then uses this energy to power your gadgets at the same rate as if they were plugged into the wall. Last, but not least, the Solio is designed to hold it’s power up ton one full year. Talk about fun in the sun!
This eco-friendly charger will run you about $119.99, plus tax and shipping. If your interested in picking up one of these Green Gadgets, you can check them out here.
Green-Zen.com
Sep 12th, 2008
Buddha’s says: “Who loves oneself will never harm another.” I don’t know if this is true or not, but in Buddhism, the challenge is to find out for yourself. What exactly does it mean to love ourselves. I decided that it was finally time for me to find out what that really means.
Easier said than done, especially in today’s economy while we are still in the throws of a war… and don’t even get started on the high gas prices and unemployment. All of that can make even the sanest person go a little crazy. This is why we need Zen Practices.
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Sep 10th, 2008
I think it’s safe to say everyone is not a morning person. I would almost bet that more than half of society dreads that morning wakeup call or alarm. Studies have shown that many people are more creative in the nocturnal hours, like bats. Bats sleep all day and fly around all night looking for food. Some of us, especially musicians, are like bats. We start to perk up around 5:00pm and can work all night until the break of dawn.
Recently, Best Buy did a study with their employees to see what could make them more productive. The company gave their employees laptops and allowed them to work half of their work week at home. Guess what. Productivity increased up to 40%! Some of their workers stated they preferred to work during the evening hours, and working at home allowed them to indulge this, ergo inreasing their work productivity.
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Sep 9th, 2008
Boost your positive karma with this tasty Zen Bars RecipeA traditional seven-layer cookie bar with an Asian twist, with graham cracker, chocolate, almonds, candied ginger, coconut, and sesame seeds. A few bites will take you one step closer to Heaven.
TIME/SERVINGS
Total Time: 40 mins
Active Time: 15 mins
Makes: 24 bars
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Sep 4th, 2008
Let’s face it, the bathroom isn’t the most glamorous room in your household. Ranging from staid and boring to downright dangerous, many modern bathrooms are not designed as thoughtfully the rest of our homes. The irony in that fact is that bathrooms are one of the most expensive rooms in the house to build, averaging about $10,000 a pop. Still, for all their expense, the design hasn’t evolved too far beyond shiny fixtures and his ‘n her sinks: many of us are still using the five-by-eight bathroom with the three fixtures — toilet, sink, and tub — all lined up in a row. And while it might help maximize space, having a dirty fixture where you deposit your waste (the toilet) next to two where you clean yourself (the sink and the tub) doesn’t make for the healthiest environment.
Here are some great Green Bathroom renovation tips that will make your home healthier for your and your family as well as Greener:
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Sep 2nd, 2008
The following are 5 Tips for successful bicycle commuting. Why? Let’s pretend that gas prices aren’t at an all time high…we are still destroying the planet with gas and exhaust fumes. Earth-friendly transportation includes car pooling, walking and bicycling. If you live ten miles or less from your job, you may want to seriously consier giving bicycle commuting a chance. Not only are you saving the planet, you will be getting daily exercise and enjoying all that nature has to give with your new scenic route.
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Sep 2nd, 2008
Zen Yoga is completely different from traditional Indian yoga. Zen yoga poses are part of an Oriental system that combines the practice of asanas with Traditional Chinese and Japanese Medicine. Postures are categorized according to the primary meridian they affect. Meridians are similar to a blood vessel, in that it has an energetic structure that corresponds with the human body, but which is instead a channel for energy to circulate.
The alignment of these exercises with specific meridians is what makes zen yoga such a powerful healing exercise. Teachers of this Oriental system emphasize its’ capacity to help treat the basic causes of illness. This article will explore what is meant by that, and provide some illustration on how zen yoga poses can be adapted to an individual’s problems.
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