Fall seemed the appropriate time to talk about worm composting. Worm composting is a way to recycle food waste into a rich, dark, earthy-smelling soil conditioner. This type of composting is somewhat unique in that it can be done indoors, as well as outdoors, this allows for all year composting. If you live in a [...]

Photo by: Momster Its almost Halloween and along with the season comes the carving of the pumpkin.  The pumpkin carving ritual isn’t complete until you have cleaned out all those seeds. Here is a great idea, recycle and reuse them, by roasting them in the oven. Roasted pumpkin seeds are packed with nutrition and low in [...]

What could be greener than a traditional pumpkin carving contest? Pumpkins are all natural, completely bio-degradable and they unite families at this time of year in an earth friendly activity. These are the Our Everyday Earth favorite pumpkin carvings for 2009. Help us pick the best of the bunch by taking our Top 10 Halloween [...]

Have you ever wondered whether you can buy a wonderfully soft plush toy which is also good for the environment? Well now there are a range of super cute stuffed animal toys made by Mary Meyer, they are the amazing green plush toys called “Fuzz that Wuzz”. Amazingly these cute stuffed toys are made from [...]

If you are anything like alot of people, you have probably never heard of soap nuts. I know I hadn’t, until this article I read the other day. Soap nuts, also called soapberries, washing nuts, or Ritha/Reetha (in Hindi), contain “saponins”, which have the ability to clean and wash. When in contact with water, it [...]

Our sunny Texas subdivision is host to a wealth of wildlife including possums, skunks, snakes, lizards, toads, squirrels and hawks to name but a few! Today we had the pure luck to witness a meetig of two sharp eyed yard prowlers, a Hawk and a Squirrel… Below are the photos we took documenting the epic battle of [...]

Halloween is almost here and we have been trying to find creative ways to green our Halloween! Have you got lots of old spotlight bulbs ready to be recycled? We replaced all of our old incandescent spotlights with Compact Flourescents and had a cupboard full of old burned out spotlight bulbs… But what could we [...]

Fall has arrived here in Texas. The cooler weather makes me think about the holidays and decorating. There are so may ways you can dress up your house for fall, Harvest parties and the holidays in a eco-friendly way. Here are just a few ideas ideas, if you have others, let me know. Table fashions: [...]

Have you ever wanted to know how long it would take to walk somewhere, or better yet, wanted a detailed walking map to your destination? We always use Google Maps to plan out our journeys but now there are Google walking maps available! How is this green you ask? Well surely the greenest way to [...]

It’s almost time for the ghosts and ghouls to haunt our streets again so we put together the Our Everyday Earth top ten list of green Halloween costumes! These spooky Halloween “get-ups” either spread an eco friendly message or are made from recycled materials; #10: Captain Recycle! We loved this idea, he’s a mean green [...]

A brand new recycling center has just opened in McKinney, Texas and it promises to revolutionize recycling in the local area. The IESI McKinney recycling facility is called a Material Recovery Facility and is situated in McKinney near the Collin Airport. The Mckinney recycling facility will be the first privately funded single-stream LEED certified Material [...]

Did you know that a whopping 46 percent of home energy use is actually energy loss! In other words, there is no productive energy use at all! Here are 10 simple ways of reversing this energy lose, by changing some old habit and starting some new ones! Check out this list, these are some very [...]

October is finally here and it’s time for another Our Everyday Earth giveaway competition. YOU COULD WIN a wonderfully eco friendly EttaSays! recycled rubber dog collar! Our October freebie giveaway will provide one lucky winner with one of these great recycled rubber dog collars, the prize winner will get to choose the size they need [...]

We had lots of entries and thank you all for the interest in the Our Everyday Earth September giveaway… The winner of the fabulous UrthBags “Elle” clutch purse is Laurie Murley, CONGRATULATIONS! We will contacting you shortly to arrange shipping the wonderful recycled material UrthBag to you. We thank everyone that entered and don’t forget [...]