It’s much safer for your kids if you banish household bugs without the use of harmful chemicals and pesticides. Here’s how to deal with buggies without icky junk…

Keep crumbs off the floor; especially in well hidden areas like under the fridge, under stove burners and in-between the fridge and cupboards.
Never leave standing water anywhere in the house – bugs like to drink your standing water so eliminate it. Watch for leaks and puddles under the fridge and in the basement.
Block them – try caulking holes and gaps in the walls, especially around baseboards and doors. Most bugs move into your …read more

This week we’re talking about some places you can shop for men’s organic cotton clothing, so now seems like the perfect time to talk about why anyone should buy organic clothing.
Conventionally Grown Cotton:

-Accounts for a quarter of the pesticides used worldwide.
-Pollutes our groundwater, leaving a mess for future generations.
-Also, preparing conventional cotton (after farming ends) means applying even more chemicals.
Organic Cotton:
-Sets a good example for conventional cotton growers. Farmers who haven’t gone organic with their cotton production need some motivation to change their farming practices. And nothing motivates more than demand.
-Does not require as much irrigation as conventionally grown cotton.
-Never …read more

This week, instead of doing a green room audit, we’re looking at green renovations for your yard.

Today let’s look at your actual lawn. Following are some tips I picked up from a local Oregon green resource newsletter and my collection of organic gardening books.
While not all the tips are specific to my region, a good tip is to check with your local natural gardening specialists for your city or state. Some regions will have very specific issues related to organic yard care and gardening. For instance, in New Mexico we were focused on water conservation, but in Humboldt the tips …read more

Yikes, it’s early to garden, I know. But, soon enough you’ll need to plan your early spring starters. Plus, there are plenty of plants and herbs to grow indoors, year round. In either case you’ll need seeds.
Organic seeds are the way to go as most offer the following:

GMO-free (i.e. not genetically modified)
No chemicals added.
Buying organic seeds from companies or farms supports the organic movement as a whole.
Many organic seed companies have, or are, introducing organic seeds that are breed to fare well in organic growing conditions.
The most obvious point – if you’re into organic gardening; why start with a …read more

Tis the season for sliding the slopes. However, a recent article in the Daily Camera points out that the The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), thinks that some ski waxes may be toxic. The issue is with the PFCs; the chemicals found in some ski waxes. The waxes in question are the fluorinated ski waxes – expensive but slick. The article notes, “The EPA says a derivative of some PFCs called perfluorooctanoic acid, or PFOA, is a possible carcinogen.” This is where that whole issue surrounding Teflon cookware came from – remember that?
Because these specific waxes are so costly, …read more