Eco-Friendly Alternative To Treated Timber

What a brilliant invention this is. I highly recommend checking out NAC Flex if you’re looking for a safer alternative to treated timber. The video covers not only the benefits of the product, but also the dangers of treated timber. The timber is treated with arsenic, among other things. Andrew Duncan, the inventor of NAC Flex points out that treated timber is used in playgrounds, where kids are touching it, and it’s so toxic that it can only be disposed of by burying in a landfill where it continues to leech toxins for generations.

NAC Flex (NAC standing for Natural Alternative Composite) is a safe, viable, sustainable, and environmentally friendly alternative to CCA treated wood.

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How To Build An Eco Friendly Home on a Budget

This is a guest post by Cynthia Booth from architecture career opportunities blog.

New Jersey school of architecture professor shows us how to build an environmental-friendly house cheaply

Do you know two NY based designers designed an asymmetrical home with fixed cost of $250,000?

Designers and Jersey City citizens Richard Garber (assistant tutor at NJ-New Jersey Institute of Technology’s University of Architecture and Design in Newark) and Nicole Robertson of GRO Architects in NYC rose to the difficult task of designing and managing the building of a single-family house that’s a real proof of both innovative design and eco-friendly technology. Read more..

Commercial Laundry Detergents Cause Allergies

Over previous decades, the amount of products available for us to clean our clothes with has grown in staggering proportions. Laundry detergents not only wash our clothes, but now they brighten, bleach, soften and deodorize them. They do a downright amazing job at getting out a good amount of the stains that we manage to get on our clothing.

So now we have cleaner clothes, but at what price? In an effort to improve the cleaning power of these laundry detergents, all sorts of dyes and chemicals have been added to these products. Then to hide the nasty smell from these chemicals, fragrances are added. Read more..

The Importance of Going Green

Every day we experience weather changes and world catastrophes caused by global warming, erosion, and other ecological changes the Earth has experienced over the past century. Complete rain forests have been destroyed, never to grow back. The planet is dying – poisoned by all the toxic waste and pollution we have released upon it. Read more..

13 Steps to Greening Your Home

There has been, and continues to be, much conversation about conserving energy in your home. Conservation is necessary to ensure there are enough resources for our future and the future of the next generations. Read more..

Heirloom Seeds – Help Save The Planet

Heirloom seeds have made a dramatic comeback in recent years. It is said that there are more than 5,000 heirloom tomato varieties alone. But heirloom seeds are much more than tomatoes, each variety has its own life story. Each seed has been sown, cultivated, harvested, saved, and passed on, often for hundreds of years, down through the generations. Read more..

Going Green: Starting with your Home

Have you considered going green? Going green is essentially to save our planet from the obvious doom ahead (if nothing is done). Going green is a term that has picked up a lot of steam, and is sure to continue growing in the years to come, because awareness will keep growing. Unfortunately, some people just do not know how important it is to go green as well as live a green life. That being said, learning how to go green in the comfort of your own home or your workplace is not as hard as you may think. Read more..

Is Switching To Organic Food A Good Move?

When you go to the grocery store, do you drop by the organic food section or walk past it? Do you know what is the difference between the food on the organic aisle and the other aisles? Simply put, organic food is free of chemicals, antibiotics, and growth hormones. In other words, they are truly 100% natural. Read more..

Cargo Bikes, The Perfect Vehicle for an Eco-friendly World

Today, global warming has been a prevalent problem in the world. Because of this, people are seeking ways of cutting the smoke emissions from the Earth that comes from cars, factories, and other industries. The goal is to help impede the process of the greenhouse effect that causes our planet to increase in temperature. One brilliant idea that man invented is the cargo bike. Read more..

Using Natural Pesticides In Your Vegetable Garden

Pesticides are harmful to us and the environment. There are more than 9,000 different acceptable pesticides that have been approved by the FDA. You may not be able to see, smell or taste them, but unless you eat organically-grown food, you’re consuming them. And unfortunately these pesticides don’t harm only the pests they are intended for. They can pose health risks for us too. Read more..

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