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Twenty Tips To Feed Your Family For Less74

Twenty Tips To Feed Your Family For Less

Perhaps you, like me, are learning to feed your family on one income. Perhaps you've been downsized out of one job and have started another at a lower rate of pay. Perhaps you just want to save more out of what you earn. Whatever your reason,...

3 comments    frugal living meal planning
The Plastic Bag Revolution Takes Hold: Reusable Bags Take The Lead77

The Plastic Bag Revolution Takes Hold: Reusable Bags Take The Lead

The end of the era of plastic bags is in sight - at least, at my local grocery store! Despite the protests of the plastic bag industry, it turns out that consumers have caught the wave and a sea change is underway in the area around Toronto, Canada....

6 comments    reusable bags cloth bags
Sunscreens: Buy Healthy Or Make Your Own83

Sunscreens: Buy Healthy Or Make Your Own

With the reduction of our ozone layer, more of the sun's damaging ultraviolet (UV) rays are reaching our planet's surface. As a result, most health professionals recommend taking precautions to better protect...

0 comments    sun protection safe sunscreen
Capturing Carbon: Is Carbon Sequestration The Way Out Of Climate Change?84

Capturing Carbon: Is Carbon Sequestration The Way Out Of Climate Change?

If Alanna Mitchell is right, the massive release of carbon dioxide into our atmosphere as a result of human activity is disastrous. Carbon dioxide directly affects the basic chemistry of our oceans: in fact, it impacts the basic chemistry of life on...

13 comments    global warming climate change
Are You Getting Your Vitamin D?69

Are You Getting Your Vitamin D?

Vitamin D plays a key role in human health. Some experts believe that it's one of the most healing substances known to human kind - and our skin makes it for us free of charge! Unfortunately, most of us are...

7 comments    vitamin d ozone layer safe sun
Is There Plastic in Your Exfoliating Scrub?83

Is There Plastic in Your Exfoliating Scrub?

Plastic has pervaded our culture. It now turns up in the strangest places - like your favorite exfoliating scrub. Many skin care brands now use polyethelene microbeads to exfoliate your skin, rather than other natural sourced ingredients. ...

4 comments    facial care facial scrub
Save Money And Eat Healthy: Grow Your Own Organic Sprouts79

Save Money And Eat Healthy: Grow Your Own Organic Sprouts

For frugal shoppers who want to eat organic, cost is a big issue - especially for healthy greens. Organic greens tend to be more perishable - and very expensive. While organic food in season may be priced comparably with its conventional...

9 comments    organic gardening organic greens
Easy Backyard Composting72

Easy Backyard Composting

Backyard composting has a bad reputation. Many people assume that it would be smelly and nasty. Well - with a bit of patience and a good routine, it doesn't have to be. Well-managed compost bins do their job with a minimum of fuss - and virtually...

8 comments    frugal living green living
Sick Seas: How Alanna Mitchell Changes Our View Of Our Planet64

Sick Seas: How Alanna Mitchell Changes Our View Of Our Planet

Water makes the world go round, to paraphrase an old song. We land-dwellers rarely think of our home as a water world, but scientists estimate that over 70 per cent of our surface is covered by water. As much...

21 comments    climate change ocean pollution
From Global To Local: What Peak Oil Means For You66

From Global To Local: What Peak Oil Means For You

You may not know it, but your life is going to change. And it's not because everyone is going to decide to be "green" because they are good people (although that may happen too): it's because we've hit the midway point of the world's oil reserves...

9 comments    environment economics peak oil
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