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 [...]

Don’t feel intimidated about all of those “green” phrases flying around lately. More people talk about it than actually do something about it. Maybe you’ve never thought of yourself as a tree-hugging /vegan /Greenpeace member / bamboo user / Mother Nature nurturer / human being, but just a plain old Joe or Jane working in [...]

I have experimented with several different phosphate free and bleach free dish-washing liquids but none of them really got our dishes clean. Most of the phosphate free liquids left a white powdery residue on our dishes, especially on glasses and pots / pans. Needless to say I was keen on finding a solution to getting [...]

If you subscribe to the Native American Proverb that “We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children”, then we have no excuse not to do something to help our earth and the environment we live in. Our group here in Texas is  made up of 6 different families [...]

Around our house, we have been on a mission to simplify our lives, from how we spend our time, to how we spend our money. We have found ourselves moving way too fast and spending way too much. There are several very good books out there to help in a mission such as this and [...]

One of the things I enjoy doing is art. Working in acrylics and mixed media, I decided to take my artwork to the next eco friendly level and use products that take a greener approach.  As a product or tool used in my work is used up, it is being replaced with products from more [...]

Potential is a funny thing. We all have it, the potential to go green. It’s just an idea, not real yet,  just a maybe. It can inspire you, make you rethink things, different ways to do something. What is true is that potential can never be taken away from you. There is always a possibility, [...]

It’s finally here, St. Patricks day 2009! Here are a few tips for staying green on surely the greenest day of the year… Recycle: Try to recycle all paper and plastic as well as any aluminum cans but remember to leave any extra greasy paper / cardboard out of the recycle bin. Consider composting any [...]

If you ever thought, I can’t go green, I don’t know where to start. How about with your wine. Rosemount wines, www.rosemountestates.com and Penfolds wines,  www.penfolds.com , have turned something very red, very green. Around the neck of their wine bottles I found a tag “20 Ways to Go Green”, inside are 20 tips on [...]

I’m afraid that I am completely guilty of grabbing a bottle of water anytime I’m lounging around, I leave the house, or work out. Instead of just using a glass I was constantly grabbing a bottle and most of the time not disposing of them properly when I had finished. A story on The National Geographic Kids website at [...]

The start of every great journey begins with saying goodbye to where you currently are. Since we are starting our families journey towards a much greener lifestyle we figured we should take a look at where we are now… That’s where CarbonFootPrint.com comes into it’s own; http://www.carbonfootprint.com/calculator.aspx The site has clear instructions on how to begin and pretty much [...]

Having been in high school in the late 70’s, I along with my sister, was an official card carrying tree hugger, charter member of the Environmental club and die hard John Denver fan! Over the years since then, being an environmentally friendly person has come and gone in my life. It is something I am [...]

This is the first ever post on Our Every Day Earth blog… We are a large family that live and work in Texas, USA and we have started this blog to document our daily ambitions to be a greener more earth friendly family. We want to reduce our “Carbon Footprint” and plan to make radical [...]