To celebrate fall we wanted to share our top 10 run down of photographs of leaves. These stunning images of leaves are truly inspirational, the beauty of nature never fails to impress; 1. Leaf by Jeff Kubina 2. His Fingerprints Fern Leaf by Randy Robertson 3. Sailing by Steve H 4. A Frosty Morning in [...]

I just wanted to write a quick post to say thank you and attaboy to our electricity provider, Reliant Energy. I received an email titled “Reliant e-sense summary” and opened it to find a very useful electricity usage chart. The chart instantly shows us the last seven days of electricity usage in Kilo Watt Hours [...]

We recently found an excellent online source for LED light bulbs, SuperBrightLEDs.com. The company is based in St. Louis, Missouri and their internet bulb ordering site has a huge variety of LED lights ranging from home, auto, RV, security and accent lighting all the way through to industrial LED light products! We had been searching [...]

We wanted to share a local Texas based companies excellent product with our readers, Andersen Windows’ in Garland, Texas are making the greenest windows around by using recycled wood and glass to make beautiful and eco friendly replacement windows. They even have a blog similar to ours which discusses sustainable practices, check it out here; [...]

The PowerSupersite has just published a very insightful infographic showing power consumption facts for the USA. The statistics show that over the course of a year the US actually uses more electricity than Japan or China topping the list at 4.40 Trillion kwh, however Canadians use more electricity per day than Americans, the stats show [...]

This year has been particularly dry for North Texans and most of us are under severe water restrictions. A couple of weeks back I was contacted by a wonderful local company called Niagara Conservation, they sent me a fantastic water saving “EcoKit” for our home to try out and review… As soon as the Water [...]

June has been very hot so far here in Texas, triple digit days and very warm nights, so it seemed only fitting that we track the energy usage of an item that helps keep our food and drinks cool, the refrigerator… We plugged in our trusty P3 Kill-A-Watt Wireless unit and started watching the numbers [...]

For the month of June we decided to monitor how much electricity is used by our television. We used the awesome P3 Kill-A-Watt Wireless to track how much electricity was being consumed by our TV over a three day period. A typical day of television watching in our household consists of a couple of hours [...]

This post will be the first of many where we track our everyday energy usage using the fabulous P3 Kill-A-Watt Wireless electricity usage monitor. The first item that I chose to track was an obvious choice for someone who grew up in Britain, the electric kettle! I drink copious amounts of tea and my trusty [...]

We’re excited to announce the winner of our May green giveaway. We had lots of entries and some great comments, unfortunately there can be only one winner. The winner was picked at random using random.org. Congratulations to Angela Morgan, she will be receiving the 50 Sunflower Seed Kits for her summer wedding courtesy of TreeBeginnings.com. [...]

Summer is almost here and we are excited to announce an amazing giveaway for May sponsored by TreeBeginnings.com. One lucky contestant will receive fifty wonderful sunflower seed kits from our friends at Tree Beginnings; Simply leave a comment against this post to enter The 50 sunflower seed kits include: Sunflower seeds in packet (2 x [...]

Today was a very special occasion for many residents of North Richland Hills, it was the official ribbon cutting ceremony to celebrate the opening of the Common Ground NRH Community Gardens. Around a hundred NRH residents and onlookers gathered to witness the unveiling of this wonderful collaboration. Common Ground NRH Community Garden is a group [...]

Arbor Day will be here soon and to celebrate we wanted to offer our readers the chance to win six pairs of wonderful organic socks from Maggie’s Organics courtesy of Blissmo.com. What better way to explore the beauty of our forests than putting on a pair of Maggie’s Organic socks a pair of sturdy boots [...]

Happy Earth Day 2011 to all of our readers! This month we had two fantastic giveaway contests both counting down to Earth Day 2011. We selected the contest winners completely at random using Random.org and are finally ready to announce our lucky winners…. Contest #1: Fifty Tree Seedlings Courtesy of TreeBeginnings.com The lucky winner of [...]

Each year here in Texas we are visited by a group of wonderful lizards that run on our fence, climb our outside walls, sunbathe on plants and plant pots and generally keep us entertained with their bright green antics… We have always known these little green critters as Texas Green Anole lizards but their real [...]

The animation below is part 1 of an amazing 8 part series created by JC Little and the Little Animation Studio. It’s an Earth Day animation which details “The Little Earth Charter” to educate kids about ways to help protect the environment and become the environmental stewards of the next generation. You can read more [...]

With Earth Day 2011 fast approaching (22nd April) we wanted to share another fabulous green giveaway; One lucky contestant will receive a five day supply of PeopleTowels, the newest concept in sustainability “PeopleTowels are an on-the-go alternative to paper towels. Reusable personal hand towels that make going green as easy as drying your hands. Made [...]

We spent a perfect Sunday at Bluemoon Farm in Texas, our wonderful Aunt and Uncle have created such an inspirational space that we wanted to share the experience with our readers. Here is our photo journal the visit, from mini horses to Tiger Swallowtail butterflies, take a look at our day on the farm;

With the countdown to Earth Day 2011 underway we are excited to announce an amazing giveaway for March sponsored by TreeBeginnings.com. One lucky contestant will receive fifty, yes fifty, eco friendly tree seedlings from our friends at Tree Beginnings; Simply leave a comment against this post to enter These “green” tree seedlings are created 100% [...]

We visited the Funky Finds Indie Craft Show over the weekend and found some great handcrafted creations. One of our favorites were the handcrafted designs by Ape-Gear, these wonderful, wearable pieces of art are from Austin, Texas. Ape-Gear was created by an artist who was tired of having other peoples visions, designs, or bland corporate [...]