Those who have been recycling for a while likely realize that there are all kinds of household objects that can have a second life somewhere else so long as they are not sent to the trash heap. In the beginning you may be content to put your soda cans and bottles in the bin and [...]

Enjoying your backyard can be difficult to do when the weather is cold. Keeping your backyard eco-friendly during the winter can also be difficult when you do not feel like spending time outdoors. However, it is not impossible to enjoy your backyard in winter while still keeping it eco-friendly. Below you’ll find five ways you [...]

When you reduce your boat’s “carbon footprint,” you also reduce your operating costs. Even as you acknowledge your blissful days on the lake are an extravagance, you argue their benefits for your sanity and your family’s happiness more than justify the expense. Moreover, you love your days on the open water so much you are [...]

“Reduce your carbon footprint,” is a mantra that we’ve all heard from the local news anchor, read in our newspapers and seen on the cover of magazines. But what does carbon footprint really mean, and does reducing it honestly make a difference? By definition, our carbon footprint is the impact that our activities, both at [...]

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 [...]

Planning a bachelor or stag party could be a nerve wracking experience for the first timer. There is certainly an expectation for the best man, best friend, or whoever is planning the  bachelor party to come up with something extraordinarily unique for the groom. For those who tire of the usual bachelor parties and wish [...]

Sometimes I think that the environmentally conscious are true optimists. We seem convinced that we can save the planet and make a world of difference, if only we can get the word out and have everyone take steps to change things. Even tiny victories are celebrated and we happily make those little shifts in behavior [...]

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 [...]

What is one product that you use multiple times a day, but have never thought about the effect it has on the environment? For most people that product is probably toilet paper. The average American uses over 100 single rolls of toilet paper each year, but do you ever stop and think of where it [...]

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 [...]

This is a guest post By Carrie Brown, Author of Eco Enthusiast More and more people are using reusable shopping bags these days, and that is great. If you are interested in taking another step forward then, would you consider bringing reusable produce bags to the grocery store or farmers market? Produce bags are also [...]

My principal sent out an email to all faculty members: Is anyone interested in trying to have a paper-free classroom next year? I was an English teacher. How on earth could I live without paper? And yet … and yet, I was the teacher who was constantly complaining about how much paper our students were [...]

Do you ever wish there was a more personalized alternative to those store bought resuable bags? We all know that every time you use a canvas shopping tote instead of a plastic bag that our landfills get less clogged with plastic but did you know that your eco canvas tote can be groovy, customized, head [...]

Plastic bags are more practical than paper in many ways.  They tend to be more durable (especially when wet), they take up less space in your cupboard (if you save them), and they can be reused more often.  And yet, you’d be better off to reject them completely! Despite their many uses around the house [...]

I am going to go out on a limb here and guess that at some point in your life you went to school. And since you probably went to school, I would also be willing to place a very large bet that you did some fundraising at some point. Going even further, I would guess [...]

It’s more important than ever to think of ways to benefit the environment so that future generations may enjoy it as much as we have. By reducing our carbon footprint, we can help to bring about a new sense of dedication to a greener, healthier earth. A carbon footprint is defined as; “The total set [...]

Let’s face it; each and every person on the planet has a responsibility to be kinder to the environment which we share with a countless number of other life forms. It is after witnessing horrific natural disasters, such as the recent floods in Pakistan, that we realize that we take for granted the amazing resources [...]

Precycling is becoming a buzz word amongst greenies like us and the Our Everyday Earth family wanted to share the following top 5 ways to boost your eco-friendliness with some waste stopping precycling…. Precycling is the practice of reducing waste by attempting to avoid bringing into the home or business items which will generate waste. [...]

I have finally finished my painting “The Painted Lady”.  The focal point of this piece is of coarse, the Painted Lady Butterfly. This is one of the most familiar butterflies in North America, as well as around the world.  If you want to attract these pretty ladies to your yard, plant thistle, hollyhocks, common sunflowers, [...]

We have been using the Berkeley Institute of the Environment carbon footprint calculator to track our average ecological impact and our progress is shown below. When we started tracking our carbon footprint back in March 2009 we assessed that our household produced a shocking 68 tons of CO2 per year, this is equivalent to 158 [...]