The Our Everyday Earth green blog is excited to announce part two of our six part miniseries. Over the coming months we will be publishing a unique guide to growing a green business from the experienced perspective of a superb local eco-conscious event and wedding planner, Wendy Dorsey. So let’s begin part 2 of 6 [...]

Once our baby arrives, we want to create an environment that is safe, healthy and environmentally friendly. It is important that we do all we can to make sure they are brought up as best as possible. Therefore, it is important to take a look at what products you’re buying them. Your baby will spend [...]

The Our Everyday Earth green blog is excited to announce part one of an amazing six part miniseries. Over the next six months we will be publishing a unique guide to growing a green business from the experienced perspective of a superb local eco-conscious event designer and planner, Wendy Dorsey. Wendy is the president and [...]

If you live here in Fort Worth or the greater metroplex you might think that the zoo is the best place to learn about wildlife and local flora, but there is an alternative… We first discovered the Fort Worth Nature Center back in March when we found two baby opossums in our back yard; The [...]

My wife and I brought our first baby home from the hospital about three weeks ago and his first Christmas has been filled with baby clothes, blankets, cuddle toys and rattles! Our friends and family all know how much we love eco friendly products and many of our baby boys gifts were organic or made [...]

I grew up in England where the Ford Fiesta was a car you could see on most streets in my neighborhood, in fact Ford pretty much dominated the car industry and in my home town of Manchester the Ford Fiesta and Ford Escort dominated the streets. We called them “boy racers” and young drivers would [...]

The holidays are almost here and my wife and I are expecting our first baby boy so I wanted to create a painting for his nursery wall inspired by nature. We ended up choosing a whale for his nursery wall and below is a video of the painting from start to finish. I painted the [...]

Have you been considering starting a home decorating project but wanted some ideas to make your renovation more eco friendly? Well this article is our attempt at helping you with some of our own green decorating ideas…. With our first baby on the way my wife and I have started taking on those small renovation [...]

Here we are at the end of another year. 2010 is just around the corner and for me, it is the beginning of another opportunity to make life choices. What will I do in the coming new year to help my home, my planet be a better, healthier, greener place? Lets see, there are so [...]

I was contacted yesterday with a request to write an article about a relatively new company and I approached the request with equal amounts of skepticism and intrigue! The request was to write about a company that takes used cardboard boxes and sells them back to businesses and the general public at low prices. What [...]

On the news the other night there was a story about a drought ridden area in Texas where the wells had gone dry. Except for one family, everyone was having to truck water in just to exist. The one exception was a family that had installed a rainwater collection system. Even with little to no [...]

How does a project that seems so simple and gratifying, end up making you feel guilty when your done? Well, when you start becoming environmentally conscious about what you do, then sometimes the end result can give you a different ending, as in my story. It has opened my eyes and given me yet another [...]

My husband and I have taken quite a few bike rides in the fall and spring; cruising the many biking trails available in the area.  While riding we typically listen to our iPods, kind of a serenade along the trail.  Last time we were out, about 10 minutes into the ride, my iPod went dead. [...]

While out grocery shopping this past weekend, I came across a great product. I bought a bag of Stahlbush Island Farms diced butternut squash. The brown paper packaging caught my eye with 100% Natural, Certified Sustainable Farming, Grown in the USA across the top. That was enough to make me buy and try the product. [...]

Inspiration for our articles comes from many different places and last week I found a great company that inspired me to logon and write; My inspiration came when I was “Googling” for recycled bags and purses, buried on the second page of my Google search was a name that just jumped out at me… UrthBags [...]

We were recently invited by my wife’s parents, Sharen and Carter, to get fresh frozen yogurt from a local business they had been telling us about for weeks. We tagged along in hope of some delicious dessert and found much, much more! The “Yogurt Patch” sells a variety of low-fat, no-fat and no sugar added [...]

I ran across a energy saving tip the other day while I was scanning the INTERNET. The tip said if you put a dry bath towel in the dryer with wet clothes, it will cut your drying time by 1/3 to 1/2. I find that hard to believe so, I’m doing the test as we [...]

“So plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.” Unknown It is a known biological fact that people breath about 20 times per minute, more than 10 million times per year, which equates to approximately 700 million breathes in a lifetime. Oxygen is a very [...]

I walk into the grocery store, over to the produce section; In one hand I pick up a perfect conventionally grown red delicious apple, in the other, I have one labeled organically grown. Both apples are firm, shiny and red. Both are loaded with vitamins and fiber, free of fat, sodium and cholesterol. What more [...]

I just wanted to give a quick shout out to Physicians Formula Organic wear Mascara. Yes, you read right, I just said “shout out”. I was pretty impressed with this organic spin on every girl’s must have…mascara. I had my favorite mascara before, which I’m sad to say was not green or organic in any [...]