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-friendlyinformation that appears in the press, on the TV and on the internet?
Then join the club!
This lens is a lensography and resource about environmental awareness and becoming more enivironmentally aware and eco-friendly to help you go green.
Lens pic reproduced by permission of Drifter0658
Michael Jackson: Earth Song
World Environment Day
Did you ever stop to notice
This crying Earth
This weeping shore
Michael Jackson - Earth Song - World Environment Day
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Environmentally friendly gift buying
and Eco-friendly holidays
Valentine's Day, Halloween and Christmas
Have an Environmentally Friendly Valentines 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
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Valentines Day
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Valentine's Day is celebrated all over the world and is another of those special days which appears to have been hijacked by commercialism - but the soppy romantic in me still loves it! However, if you do want to buy chocs or flowers for the lov...
Have a Green Halloween
Environmentally Friendly Halloween Lights
A purple star lens!
LED lights use 80% less electricity than normal incandescant lights. Use Environmentally Friendly Halloween Lights - save the planet and save money as well!
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Environmentally Friendly Halloween Lights
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You can create a wonderfully spooky atmosphere with the right Halloween lights, but you can also do your bit for the environment. Nothing scares the children quite so much as a dark, spooky house! So turn off your normal lights and use orange and...
Eco-friendly Christmas: Twelve days of a green and ethical Christmas
Twelve ways to have a green, ethical, eco-friendly Christmas
01 December 2008
Even if you just use one of these environmentally friendly Christmas tips, you will be helping to make a difference!
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Twelve Days of a Green & Ethical Christmas
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How do you have a green Christmas? Here's twelve ways to have an ethical, eco-friendly and environmentally friendly Christmas. The Twelve Days of Christmas to my family is simply a time of being together. When I was a child there was no such thi...
Buy environmentally friendly products from these suppliers
Eco-friendly gifts, cleaning products and more!
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!
Canvas shopping bags on Zazzle
Environmentally friendly tote bags
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.
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Janey Lee Grace
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Janey Lee Grace is a UK expert in the field of "natural" living. Janey describes herself as an "Imperfectly Natural Woman" and has written a best selling book with the same title. More recently "The Wright Stuff" on UK TV has started referring to her...
Imperfectly natural
Website of Janey Lee Grace
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."
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Imperfectly natural
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Imperfectly Natural.com is the home of natural alternatives. How did I become the Editor of this website that has over 3-400,000 hits a month? It is all thanks to Squidoo! This lens tells you how I first met the Imperfectly Natural Woman, Janey Lee...
Soapnuts: an environmentally friendly soap
Natural and eco-friendly cleaning
All about Soapnuts. Info on where to buy and a recipe for "soap-nut juice"
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Soapnuts - The Environmentally Friendly & Natural Cleaner
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Soapnuts are one of the best "ecosoaps" on the planet! They are an environmentally friendly, natural and cheap alternative to commercial detergents, which are easy to use in the home. We have four children and like many parents, my husband and I are...
Books to help you go green
Green and natural tips from Janey Lee Grace and others
UK Visitors can buy from Amazon UK via this link
The links below take you to Amazon USA
Imperfectly Natural Home: Everything You Need to Know to Create a Natural Home
The other book I bought, when I met Janey Lee Grace for the first time. In it Janey shares her secrets and top tips for living natural. She gives friendly and down to earth advice.
Amazon Price: $15.56 (as of 12/02/2009) 
Imperfectly Natural Woman: The Pocket Book
Building on the success of her first book Janey has created Imperfectly Natural Woman: the pocket book. It includes tips and ideas extracted and adapted from Imperfectly Natural Woman together with some new tips and and added sections (particularly recipes for making your own natural skincare) and some gorgeous illustrations.
A great gift - as a Christmas stocking filler or for Mother's Day
Amazon Price: (as of 12/02/2009)
Imperfectly Natural Woman: Getting Life Right the Natural Way
The book that has inspired me to try to be more "natural" in the home and converted me to Soapnuts.
Amazon Price: $24.95 (as of 12/02/2009)
Green Your Home All in One For Dummies (For Dummies (Home & Garden))
Amazon description
Green Your Home All-in-One For Dummies empowers readers to make ecologically-friendly improvements to each and every area of their home. At $29.99 and 696 pages, this package is a real value and a true source book for readers looking for a substantial breadth of information and solutions yet unwilling to invest in four, five, or six books on the wide range of content that they seek.
Amazon Price: $19.79 (as of 12/02/2009)
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Green Living
Amazon description
The environmental movement and rising awareness of global warming have sparked an interest in green living. People want to know what they can do to live sustainable lives. In this book, you will find an overview of global warming and environmental degradation of air, water, and soil; what sustainable living is and how to do it; how to cut down on carbon output (the cause of global warming) with alternative cars and fuels; and environmentally friendly home and lawn care products.
Amazon Price: $11.53 (as of 12/02/2009)
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.
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Best Plants for Bees
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What are the best plants for bees? What are the plants that bees love? And why should we care? Why should we make sure we plant bee friendly gardens? Because thanks to a mystery illness called Colony Collapse Disorder, they need all the help they ca...
St Tiggywinkles: Wildlife is important for the environment too!
Hedgehogs are an organic slug control!
St Tiggywinkle's is the biggest wildlife hospital in the world!
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St Tiggywinkles
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St Tiggywinkles is the biggest wildlife hospital in the world and it is located in a small village in rural England. According to the St Tiggywinkles' website every year in Britain over five million wild animals and birds are injured as a direct res...
Blog: AJ is going green on Squidoo
That's "green" as in "environmentally friendly"
Yes, AJ is hanging out with her pal Drifter0658 and other lensmasters at Crabby's Beach and decided to make Going Green the focus of her new blog.
Fetching RSS feed... please stand byNews about the Environment
Worldwide environement headlines
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- Pick for Environment Post Raises Some Eyebrows
- By MICHAEL BARBARO Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg has said he will remain vastly ambitious in his third term, and is committed to a sweeping environmental ...
- Spring Hill's new rain garden teaches about environment
- That's a change that many are hoping will happen with the city's new rain garden, a project funded through the Tennessee Environmental Council and the ...
- Schultz: Weis is a great coach in the wrong environment
- He is proven and knows the game in great detail but he was in the wrong environment. He is a pro football coach, not a college coach. ...
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"
TreeHugger: Green Tips for Slackers
Two quick, lighthearted skits that show a couple of easy ways to save energy. Like it? Check treehugger.com for over 4,500 posts on modern meets green. And please send comments to graham at treehugger dot com.
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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
- Mr Light.com
- Environmentally friendly LED lights
- Ethical Superstore.com
- Your One Stop Shop for ethical gifts, cleaning and a lot more
- Flora 2000
- Fair trade flowers sent worldwide
- AJ is Going Green on Squidoo
- AJ is Always Juggling and Going Green on Crabbys Beach
- Crabbysbeach Squidoo blogging community, where lensmasters play.
- Crabbysbeach blog community for all things, and lensmasters that are Squidoo. Free blogs for lensmasters of all walks.
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Do you have any green tips to share?
What do you promise to do to help the environment?
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- GrowWear GrowWear Nov 6, 2009 @ 8:14 pm
- You've shown here that there are things we can do right now to help ourselves go green. Thank you!
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- totalhealth totalhealth Nov 3, 2009 @ 3:11 pm
- nice lens, nice collection of lenses and ideas on going green.
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- Blake Publishing - Bill Blake Blake Publishing - Bill Blake Nov 3, 2009 @ 11:35 am
- Nov. 3, 2009 Hello !
We promise to continue to grow and add new "Green"
information and resources
to our Website for tips and Digital Book gift downloads on
ideas to save the environment / planet and wildlife.
We can all make a difference by taking action and just do
a little each day, week, month... to learn how to
"Live Green" ~ "Going Green"..
Please visit & share:
http://www.going-green-ideas.com
Thanks for your time & Kindest Regards,
Bill Blake
http://www.blakepublishing.com
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- Earth_Friend Earth_Friend Oct 24, 2009 @ 5:18 pm
- good ideas! Look into Geothermal Energy I think you'll like what you see.
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- OhMe OhMe Oct 22, 2009 @ 7:32 am
- Great Green Lensography. Well done!
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