Let’s see what you you may have missed this week…
Instead of a green audit, this week we looked at green yard renovations. We checked out: Composting for Soil Health, Greening Your Lawn, and Choosing the Right Plants.
Make Your Own Dowel Vase Cover
Recycled kitchenware in amazing colors.
How to test your dishes for lead
Bake a greener birthday cake plus some great cake recipes.
Where to get used coffee grounds for your garden – and why in the heck you would want to.

14 Ways You Can Love the Earth
Great green architecture links
Free Green Home Poster
We hugged (and learned about) the Cheetah …read more

As promised in my post about where to put your used coffee grounds, I’m back with a tip on where to get used coffee grounds for free.
In case you don’t drink as much coffee as Jennifer, you may need to supplement. And why not? Starbucks has to do something with all those grounds.
I’m guessing there’s a Starbucks near you, and they have a program called Grounds for Your Garden.
They also offer some tips on using coffee grounds.
Also, check out Sunset magazine’s article, The Starbucks coffee compost test.
Image from flickr.

Since Jennifer is doing her audit on the great green that is your yard, I thought it would be very co-bloggy of me to add a post about how your plants can reuse a little something you might be throwing away everyday.
Coffee grounds can be even more useful to you after you drink your coffee:
Coffee grounds release nitrogen. Plants crazy love nitrogen.
You don’t even have to compost the grounds first. Just evenly spread used grounds directly over your plants just before watering. You can also till the grounds into the soil if you haven’t planted yet. If …read more