This weekend I decided to look at all the best reasons why you shouldn’t bother going green. In case you missed any of these anti-green excuses, now is your chance to catch up…

I don’t matter
Global warming is a crock
Going green is too expensive
I’m not a damn hippie
I don’t have time
I have no idea where to start

Can you think of any other good reasons not to go green?
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Getting started is the easy part of green, if you know where to look.
The best advice is to start small and incorporate green activities naturally into your world.
Basic ideas to get your brain pumping:

10 Super Tiny Baby Green Steps You Can Take
How Kids Can Make A Difference: Saving the Planet from A to Z
100 Ideas for Your Green Family
Five Great Green (and Easy) New Years Resolutions
Free Green Home Poster

A few good books that will help you:

Easy Green Living: The Ultimate Guide to Simple, Eco-Friendly Choices for You and Your Home
It’s Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth-Friendly Living
Wake …read more

I’m going to make this short and sweet. Yeah you do.
Don’t believe me? It takes under five minutes to…

Unplug an appliance.
Hang your towel
Scrape a plate.
Recycle a toilet paper tube.
Whip up a kitchen face scrub.
Pass up toxic cleaners at the store – just keep on walking.
Switch to a LED light bulb.
Make an entire batch of homemade ice pops.
Choose organic milk over conventional.
Take your own bag to the store.
Grab a reusable cup.
Conserve water.

Even if you did all of this above today, your grand total of time spent would be well under an hour.
In my opinion, the bigger green steps don’t always …read more

All expenses in the world have leverage and many expenses are choice orientated. Not trying because you think it’ll be too expensive is not a great excuse to ignore green living. If you need help getting over this issue, we discuss it all the time here:

Organic Food Costs Rise – 11 Ways to Save Money on Organic Food
How Green Living Saves You Money: Napkin Example
Why Does Being Green Cost So Much?
Raising Green Kids In A Commercial Culture
Kids & Shopping – How Kids Can Be Smart Consumers
As a parent, do you understand the impact of the need for stuff?

If you’re …read more

So what if it is?
Frankly I’m tired of this excuse. Yeah it might be a crock, but it’s a lame excuse to use to avoid green living.
Green living is so much more than the global warming issue. True green living supports local economy, fair employment, resource and nature preservation, healthy bodies, and much more. Green living will ensure we don’t live in a concrete jungle void of trees and allows us to learn how to keep dangerous toxins out of our homes and kids.
To flip with global warming. Don’t believe, believe, do what you like, but it’s really a moot …read more

With the new year almost upon us, many folks are thinking, “Hey, this will be the year I try to live a little greener.” Others will say, “What a waste of time.” There are hundreds of excuse why someone can’t or won’t go green. That said, I’ve decided we’ll have an anti-green weekend before 2009 arrives. This weekend we’ll look at five reasons why you really shouldn’t bother with green living.
This weekend, I’ll post six of the most common excuses I’ve heard over the years. Starting with…
I’m just one person so it’s not like I’ll make that big a difference:
Actually, …read more

We haven’t done one of these posts since May! Yet, we’ll be good and try not to overwhelm you, too much.
Jennifer and I chose these links to other posts we’ve written because we thought you’d find them interesting and some shade of green.
Misc. Fun

DVD to Watch: Who Killed the Electric Car?
Light Green Stairs Turns One
Recycling on Vacation Too
Going, Going, Green
Save time at the farmers’ market

Reuse / Craft

How about a BOB?
Maple Roses
Kitty Cardboard Chaise
My Paperboard Person
Milk Carton Projects for Kids & Adults
DIY Party Decorations
Many Uses of Catalog Pages to Entertain Cats
Liquor box storage
Fingerprint Mini-Mosaic with Scrabble Tiles
Start Your Bat Costume Today
Ways …read more

Instructables and Discover magazine have joined forces and right now are running the Green Science Fair For a Better Planet contest and event. I actually meant to post on this sooner (bad me). The contest is complied of every sort of green project you can think of, but each project needs to be instructions, a how to go green, make a green something, or use green ideas for something off the charts odd.
Voting ends tomorrow. So right now you can go vote or even still submit, if you’re quick. There are all kinds of things to see at the event …read more

First a disclaimer. I actually like HGTV. They’re nice people, or their PR folks are anyhow. Although I can’t ever find them now, they’ve had both George and Ed on their station (love them both!). They promote green living (to an extent), and they offer me my summer dose of TV.
However, I recently saw something at their website that sort of irks me. This isn’t the first time either. They do this quite a lot on their TV shows. I suppose tonight was the last straw.
I was at their Green Home blog, and I was reading this post, Green Decorating …read more

Plastic bags don’t biodegrade. But something must happen to them. They don’t disappear just because you throw them away.
In landfills, plastic bags take up to 1,000 years to break down.
As litter exposed to sunlight, plastic bags photodegrade, breaking down into small, toxic pieces. Those pieces pollute our land, lakes, rivers and oceans. Plastic bits look like food to marine life. Look at the jellyfish photo to the right. Can’t you see a turtle mistaking a plastic bag for a jellyfish?
When fish eat plastic pieces, that not only hurts them, but it can hurt you if it enters the food chain. …read more