Going Green Ideas
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Tips for going green
Would you like some tips for going green? Do you want to live a more environmentally friendly life but you don't know where to start? Are you overwhelmed by all the eco-friendly information that appears in the press, on the TV and on the internet?
Then join the club!
This page is a collection of pages about environmental awareness and becoming more enivironmentally aware and eco-friendly to help you go green.
Image: Love it or Lose it Tote bag by AJ and available at Zazzle
Michael Jackson: Earth Song
World Environment Day
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying Earth
This weeping shore
Environmentally friendly gift buying
and Eco-friendly holidays
Valentine's Day, Halloween and Christmas
Have an Environmentally Friendly Valentine's Day
Buy Eco-friendly Fair Trade gifts for your Valentine
Fair Trade flowers and chocolate plus old gold for an environmentally friendly Valentine's Day
Have a Green Halloween
Environmentally Friendly Halloween Lights

A Squidoo purple star page!
LED lights use 80% less electricity than normal incandescant lights. Use Environmentally Friendly Halloween Lights - save the planet and save money as well!
Eco Friendly Christmas: Twelve Days of a green and ethical Christmas
Twelve ways to have a green, ethical, eco-friendly Christmas
Even if you just use one of these environmentally friendly Christmas tips, you will be helping to make a difference!
There's also ideas for Fair Trade Christmas Gifts.
Simple tips for going green
Ideas to make your home more environmentally friendly
The first going green tip I would like to pass on is take it easy! You cannot green up your entire life. It is just impossible!
So start with the things that are easy to achieve. Focus on areas where simple changes can be made. Think about what is really important to you - you are far more likely to see it through.
For example, do you enjoy gardening? Then perhaps make eco-friendly choices as you decide what plants to add to help wildlife, such as bees, what compost to use and whether you can find organic pest control.
What about cooking? Then when you make that Jack O Lantern for Halloween, use the flesh for soup and roast the seeds.
Do you have a lot of electrical equipment in the home - it is easy to turn it off rather than leave it on standby!
Do you buy gifts? Of course you do! It's easy to buy eco-friendly gifts for every occasion. You just need to know where to find them!
Or what about giving up plastic bags? Carry a canvas tote bag in your purse whenever you go shopping - that is a very easy step to take, which is VERY environmentally friendly!
Buy a Canvas Bag
Reusable Shopping Bags
Why buy a canvas bag?
Did you know that:
* one canvas bag will eliminate the use of 1000 (yes ONE THOUSAND) plastic bags in its lifetime?
* hundreds of thousands of animals are killed by plastic bags EVERY YEAR?
* a plastic bag is used for an average of 12 minutes but takes hundereds of years to decompose in landfill?
Canvas shopping bags on Zazzle
Environmentally friendly tote bags
Eco-friendly shopping bags on Zazzle, from AJ and Family, with some special designs from Sparky and Ana-Belle.
Saving the planet in easy steps
Tips from the UK's
"Green Queen" Janey Lee Grace
Environmentally friendly and natural
Janey Lee Grace: The UK's Green Queen
Saving the Planet one step at a time
Janey Lee Grace is a UK expert in the field of "natural" living.
Imperfectly Natural
Janey Lee Grace Website
As Janey Lee Grace herself says on her website Imperfectly Natural:
"This site is to help build an Imperfectly Natural Community, where I hope to share with you everything I can on the best natural and holistic ideas for us, our kids, our partners, and for our way of life and our environment... but in a realistic way."
Soap Nuts and Green Friendly Cleaning
Natural and eco-friendly cleaning
All about Soapnuts, Info on where to buy Eco Soap, Soapnuts and a recipe for "soap-nut juice" plus Mrs Meyers cleaning products.
Books to help you go green
Green and natural tips from Janey Lee Grace and others
UK Visitors can buy from Amazon UK Amazon UK
The links below take you to Amazon USA
Saving our precious Wildlife
Helping bees and hedgehogs!
For Green Gardeners: The Best Plants for Bees
10 easy to care for plants to attract bees into your garden

A purple star lens, the 10 Best Plants for Bees tells you about how to plant a range of plants to ensure there is something always in bloom to attract the bees all through the late spring, early summer and into the autumn.
St Tiggywinkles: Wildlife is important for the environment too!
Hedgehogs: Organic Slug Control
St Tiggywinkle's is the biggest wildlife hospital in the world!
This page has photos from the vist we made to St Tiggywinkle's in 2009.
Environmentally friendly home
Products for the green home
Environmentally friendly shopping
There's all sorts of ways we can "go green"
in the home and buying an environmentally friendly
vacuum cleaner,
computer and gaming monitor
and 3D TV
will help you become more eco friendly
How to make Green Cupcakes
A green recipe with a difference
Green cupcakes is a recipe lens but with a difference. Not only do you get a yummy green cupcake recipe with the best ever frosting, but there's also information about eco friendly baking equipment, including where to get unbleached cupcake liners.
Going Green Ideas
Ideas and tips for going green and natural
More information about natural healthy living, natural skin care recipes, natural body care, green headlines and green gardening
Blog: Going Green Ideas
That's "green" as in "environmentally friendly"
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byNews about the Environment
Worldwide environement headlines
- Canada, Alberta commit to 'improve' environmental monitoring of oil sands
- By Eric Watkins The governments of Canada and Alberta, stung by the recent US decision to postpone development of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline project, have agreed to step up their monitoring of the environmental effects of oil sands developments ...
- Obama Budget Proposal a Big Net Plus for Environment
- Environmental Defense Fund praised President Obama's congressional budget request that would provide funding for sustainable fisheries and shift some of the $4 billion a year in subsidies for oil and gas companies to invest in clean technology in ...
- Alltopics.com Offers the Best News on Environment
- Today Alltopics.com has launched Environment as a new topic of the website. Environment articles, all gathered from every source on the Web, are now easily accessible and widely read. Environment.alltopics.com is the number one news and information ...
- Suppliers Partnership for the Environment Announces 2012 Executive Committee
- By Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP) WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2012 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Suppliers Partnership for the Environment (SP) has announced its new Executive Committee for 2012. Chairing the SP Executive Committee for ...
A lighthearted video with a couple of great green tips from Treehugger.com
It's a lot easier to be eco-friendly than you might think!
Treehugger.com strives to be "a one-stop shop for green news, solutions, and product information"
Did you ever stop to notice
this crying Earth
this weeping shore
If there is just one thing you take from this lens,
today please promise you will change the way
you do just one thing.
Whether it be to plant a flowering shrub to attract bees
or
buy Fair Trade flowers
or
always carrying a canvas shopping bag in your purse,
just one thing WILL make a difference!
Thank you
Going Green links
A reminder of the places to visit
Links to places to help you go green
- Gifts with Humanity
- 100% Fair Trade gifts for all occasions
- Ethical Superstore.com
- Your One Stop Shop for ethical gifts, cleaning and a lot more
- Flora 2000
- Fair trade flowers sent worldwide
- Going Green Ideas Blog
- AJ's blog: Going Green Ideas - ideas and tips on green and natural living
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cheapsolarpanels
Jul 7, 2011 @ 9:43 pm | delete
- Fantastic green living tips... in my country some big malls are switching to green/eco-friendly shopping bags already.
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sousababy
Apr 3, 2011 @ 9:10 pm | delete
- I love how you get to the point (esp. about plastic bags) in this lens. Whenever people are given the truth it moves them towards change...certainly a gift of yours AJ! Going green tips I have, well, maybe conserving water and recycling like crazy (but I am sure I could be doing so much more). Thank you for an informative and educational lens. Sincerely, Rose
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UKGhostwriter Apr 2, 2011 @ 7:00 pm | delete
- brilliant lens!
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aesta1
Mar 9, 2011 @ 6:49 pm | delete
- We are putting solar up in our beach place. Hope this works.
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ajgodinho Oct 22, 2010 @ 11:36 am | delete
- Great lens on helping people go green. I agree, it's a good idea to start simple and gradually expand if not it can get overwhelming with all the media attention and pressure. One of the problems to keep in mind when using canvas bags is to make sure to disinfect them for harmful bacteria which can cause and spread disease. **Blessed by a Squid-Angel**
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Tipi
Sep 18, 2010 @ 10:54 pm | delete
- I must admit that canvas bags are the best invention since automobiles. I'm real fond of solar energy and fire. A nice green ideas lens AJ.
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JoyfulPamela
Aug 5, 2010 @ 10:24 am | delete
- AJ - these are wonderful ideas! I have a couple canvas bags for groceries, but my problem is that I carry them into the house then forget to take them back out to the car! I promise I'll keep working on remembering! : )
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Obscure_Treasures May 21, 2010 @ 12:06 pm | delete
- Great ideas, thanks! Green Living Eco Friendly Tips
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partybuzz
Apr 28, 2010 @ 9:20 pm | delete
- This is a great, green lens! I use the canvas bags...I hate plastic in landfills! Thanks for the information.
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Wednesday_Elf
Apr 28, 2010 @ 4:27 pm | delete
- This is a NEW comment, because I don't think I've been here before :-). Very interesting green ideas. I've known for years that plastic bags were 'not good' -- for the environment and for 'just in general', but I had NO idea about the statistics you included about this -- use an average of 12 minutes each, then it takes hundreds of years to decompose. Now THAT is an 'awakening'. I see more and more people using canvas bags at the grocery stores, so I guess the message is getting through.
I recycle and use canvas bags and so does my extended family. Other ideas I didn't know or realize about and I thank you for this lens, these great resources and links, and for helping us all become more aware of how we can positively affect our planet. Well done.
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