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How Coyotes Live Wild in City Neighborhoods
As coyotes lose more and more territory to humans, rather than go extinct, they start to move into locations we have claimed and developed. How can we help them survive amongst us humans?
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How to Tip at a Semi-Service Restaurant
Most restaurants these days request a tip up-front, even when they don't provide the services tips are for. Since tips are supposed be voluntary, not required (by law), how do you handle it when tips feel forced on you?
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Abortion Bans: Greatest Potential Impact
Abortion bans are intended to save the lives of gestating babies before they are ready to be born. But then what happens afterwards? The outcome is not nearly as positive as one might want it to be.
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The Three Best Budget Electric Weed Eaters for Your Yard
Here are descriptions and comparisons of the three best electric weed eaters recommended by four top sources. If you're in the market for a weed eater, check these out first.
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How to Hang Plants From an Apartment Balcony
It's not as easy as one would think to hang plants on a balcony. Here are ideas for how to hang plants from your balcony walls, roof, railing, or floor.
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DIY Balcony Trellis: How to Build a Simple Trellis for $50–$100 (or Less)
Growing plants up trellises is a great way to save space on your balcony while still having greenery. Trellises are easy and cheap to build. Here are three different kinds.
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How to Grow a Hanging Garden From Your Balcony Railing
Balconies with beautiful, cascading flowers and hanging plants are popular in Europe but not in the U.S. It’s easy to create a balcony garden of hanging plants if you choose the right ones!
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DIY Pea Trellis: How to Build a Simple Pea Trellis in Your Garden
Giving peas a trellis to grow upright makes it easier for them to fruit and for you to pick. It also ensures there will be some left for you after the critters get the low-lying ones. Trellises are easy to build. Try these examples.
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Air-Purifying Bedroom Plants That Can Survive Low Light
Choosing plants good for the bedroom can be a problem. This article will help you decide whether it's possible or worthwhile and, if the answers are yes, what kinds of plants would work.
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Why Are Mushrooms Growing in My Yard?
Mushrooms actually indicate a healthy lawn and are more beneficial than detrimental. Read on to find out how to keep them under control.
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How to Deal With Black Bears in Your Neighborhood
Black bears are moving down into people's living spaces thanks to droughts, wildfires, and lack of food in their mountain homes. Humans like to help where we can, and this article addresses how to help bears through tough times without endangering anyone.
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How Protesting Can Make a Difference
Protesting, by itself, one time, won't make a difference. Protesting needs to be sustained and be supported to create systemic change. Here is how that works.
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How Micro-Loans Can Uplift Poor Communities
Micro-finance agencies in the U.S. do not achieve the same results that they do in less capitalist countries—and there is a reason for that. In reflecting back on the successful micro-loan agency I helped set up in Grenada in the West Indies, the key differences from the U.S. became clear.
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A Morning Prayer for Food & Food Workers
Have you ever wished that more people would recognize how essential food workers are to the country's well being? Well, it can start with you. Here is a prayer you can use every morning to bless your food and its providers.
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How Feral Peacocks Stay Alive in Urban Neighborhoods
Peacocks are thriving in the neighborhood streets of Southern California. How is that possible? They're an Asian bird in the wild. If they're roaming free here, how are they surviving, and what makes them different from wild ones?
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How to Use Your Own Photos as Screen Savers on a Mac
Using your own photos as your Mac screen savers can be surprisingly motivating, fun, and useful. It's easy to set up. Here is why and how to do it.
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Keep Your House Cool Without Using Air Conditioning
Learn a number of ways to go through a hot summer without using your air conditioning so you can save on your electrical bill and also go green.
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How to Choose Between Political Candidates
For beginner voters, it might be okay to have someone tell you who to vote for. But as you grow wiser and more observant about how politics affects daily life, you'll want to be more careful about the election choices you make. This article shows different ways to prepare for voting.
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How to Register and Vote in the U.S. (and Why You Should)
It's so important for us to vote for government officials who stand for us and our country. First, you have to register to vote though. This article shows how to register and why to vote.
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How to Live Without a Car: Tips From a Car-Free Pro
If you've decided to embrace the car-free lifestyle but don't know how to start, this article is for you. If you're already living without a car and finding it difficult, this article can help make it easier.
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How to Decide Whether or Not to Live Without a Car
After ten years of living car-free, I realized that I could have adjusted more quickly by thinking it through first. Here are the many things I've learned that can help you decide whether living without a car makes sense for you or not.
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How to Live Car-Free (and Reasons for Getting Rid of Your Car)
I haven't owned a car for 10 years. . . even though I live in LA. Here's my list of reasons for getting rid of my car, how I manage a car-free life, transportation options, and tips for weening yourself off of car ownership.
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How to Wash and Dry Clothes at a Laundromat
A sustainable household doesn't always have to have its own washer and dryer. You can save money and water by going to a laundromat, and there are even ways to make that time enjoyable.
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How to Kill Crabgrass in Your Lawn Naturally
Most people hate crabgrass. Advertisers teach us to when they promote their many products, used to kill it. Although it has benefits and farmers love it, homeowners would much rather be rid of it.
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How to Grow Green Grass Successfully
Wondering how to grow grass? Most lawn grasses in the U.S. come from Europe, but the weather in the U.S. is different. Learn tips on how to grow grass lawns to make them lush and attractive year round.
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Lawn Care Maintenance: Seven Tasks for Fall
In maintaining a healthy lawn, there are certain tasks that are seasonal—like planting new grass in the spring, not the fall. Here are seven lawn maintenance tasks to carry out in the fall for a healthy lawn.
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How the Irish Potato Famine Grew Into Food Sustainability
The Irish Potato Famine was a disaster for Ireland's farmers and families. Recovery took a long time, but now the country is committed to food and drink sustainability. Here is how it happened.
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Sustainable Agriculture in Ireland: Origin Green
All across Europe, Ireland is perceived as a sustainable green country. But is it really? Ireland's new program "Origin Green," the first of its kind in the world, is making sure of it.
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The Role of Photosynthesis in a Sustainable Atmosphere
A sustainable atmosphere is one that maintains its gases at a healthy level and balance for life to thrive. Photosynthesis plays an integral role, with plant activity balancing mammals like us. This article shows what plants do.
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Wild Parrots Multiplying in Southern California
Southern California's wild parrot population is growing, raising worries that they might be threatening the survival of native birds.
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Why Nature Is Important to Human Physical and Economic Well-Being
People need the natural world. From nature we learn what it is to be human, how we fit into our environment, and how we can make life easier.
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How to Choose the Best Father's Day Gift for Your Relationship
Father's Day is a special time to show what your relationship means to you––whatever kind of father he is or was. Here are several ideas for choosing a gift that reflects the two of you together.
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Best Websites to Search for Eco-Friendly Products Online
There are more earth-friendly goods being sold online than ever before, but where are they? Try one of these green directories for links to stores that sell sustainably-produced goods and services.
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7 Public Relations Tools You Can Use to Promote Sustainability
Here are several public relations techniques you can use to draw others into supporting good earth stewardship. You could even get celebrities to help promote sustainability.
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Stop Wasting Life Away and Create Meaning Instead
How many things have you bought that you don't need? Toys for the kids they never play with? Clothes, shoes, jewelry you never wear? Time to change that around and create a more thrifty life full of meaning.
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5 Pianists Who Are Also Political Activists
Being truly expressive requires playing with passion, which activists have plenty of. Learn about these great pianists and how they helped shape society.
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Setting Goals Using the Law of Attraction
Your power to create a fun, sustainable life is stronger than you think, especially when you understand the Law of Attraction. Training yourself to utilize the Law will benefit yourself and everyone around you for a long time to come.
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Help Your Community Have a Bright Christmas
Life is richer and more fun when a person balances solitary and family time with involvement in a community. This is especially true during the Christmas holidays when everyone celebrates together.
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Choosing and Hosting a Holiday Family Reunion
As the older generation passes on and the younger one grows up, when and how does responsibility shift for hosting family gatherings?
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How to Buy Eco-Friendly Gifts for Christmas
Tips for holiday buyers who want to purchase responsibly this Christmas. Here are actual examples and some photos of what makes a product "green."
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Christmas Carols - Celebrating the Season
What really speaks "Christmas" to you. Is it the lights? The shopping? For me it's the music. Christmas carols get you in the mood, wherever you are, and here are some to get you started.
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American Food and the Origin of Thanksgiving
Wampanoag tribal elders saved the lives of the first Pilgrims, showing them how to identify and grow native food, but our Thanksgiving holiday did not come from them. This article is about the real history of Thanksgiving and its traditional foods.
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How to Make Air-Popped Popcorn for Recreation & Health
Using an air popper to make popcorn improves its health and taste. It's also cheaper than a microwave. Use these recipes and tips to create fun events at home with healthy popcorn.
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Landscaping Books to Help With Design
Landscapers are great sources for advice and so is the Internet. But if you want to just kick back with a cup and a good book with photos, landscape design books are awesome. Here are some good ones.
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A Portable Shade Canopy is a Place to Socialize
Outside events are great places to gather & socialize. Large families, parade goers, clubs, and activist groups are some of the people who can benefit from gathering under a portable shade canopy.
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Softscape and Hardscape: Garden Components
This article describes the physical components of a garden, including softscape and hardscape, and explains how to use them.
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How to Plant Trees in Your Sustainable Landscape
Trees provide numerous benefits that most people don't think of, especially if they're local trees. They can even determine what goes in the rest of the landscape. This article will show you how.
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Display Tables for Public Events: Preparing Ahead
Having a display table at a public event can be great public relations for nonprofit groups. It does take planning ahead, but the increased membership, donations, and publicity can make it worthwhile.
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Taking Public Transport to Business Meetings
For someone who wants to become less dependent on driving, doing their bit for the environment and saving money on gas, trying out public transport as a travel option makes sense. But it's not as easy as it sounds. There's the tradeoff of money vs...
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Political Activists Hold Legislators Accountable: BP Oil Spill
What would you do in serious disaster like the BP oil spill, if promises made by government officials had still not been carried out a year later? Citizens are learning, from observation over the years, that too many legislators make promises they don't follow through on. Here are some ideas for...
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Changing Client Reports to Sample Reports for Marketing
Marketing your services is crucial to success for contractors, who have many potential tools they may not be aware of. Here is how one turns a client report into a tool for marketing.
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Design Principles That Make Your Landscape Attractive
Planting native plants is a great way to support a healthy earth, but it can look messy and ugly if you don't use basic design principles. Here we discuss color, texture, scale, and line.
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Display Tables for Public Events: How to Staff One
If you've never helped staff a display table at a public event, you've missed out on a potentially fun time. Public events are great places to talk about issues you care about with others who care.
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Designating a Subcontractor in Your Project Proposal
When you find a request for proposal (RFP) that you don't fully qualify for, consider hiring a subcontractor to fill in the missing expertise.
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A Subcontract Agreement Can Help You Get Contracts
When you see a contract you want to bid for, but you don't have one of the skills, what do you do? Give up? Why not find a subcontractor to take care of that skill, while you do the rest?
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How to be a Sensitive Political Protester
Political protesters publicize societal problems and corruption that our governments should be dealing with, but aren't. In turn, we are often attacked. But by whom and why? How do we deal with it?
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Political Activists Need Rituals Too
Political activists provide the critical action that helps make the world a better place. If you are one, then you know how quickly activists can get burned out. Waking & sleeping rituals can help.
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Weather and Environmental Factors in Green Landscape Design
Designing a landscape that matches the type of climate you live in can save lots of money spent on dead plants, fertilizer, pesticides, and water. Here are several climate factors to consider when you plant.
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Activist or Nonprofit Wish Lists vs Goals
Clear wish lists trigger synchronistic events that help you and your nonprofit accomplish your goals. They are especially powerful tools when everyone's input is included.
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Vendor/Agency Bidding Meetings for Successful Entrepreneurs
Have you ever wondered if you should attend a government bidding meeting when you are bidding on a new contract? This article shows what such meetings are like.
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How Local Lands and Soils Affect Landscape Design
It isn't just weather that affects the growth of plants, but also the types of soils and the amount of water available. This article shows you how to consider local conditions in your design.
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Landscape Design Ideas, Styles, and Themes
Well-planned landscapes have an overall "look" to them that can be classified as a style. Learn about native styles that are considered exotic in other locales.
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Low Impact Development (LID) in Landscape Design
LID is a design principle that encourages a landscape to utilize natural landforms and weather patterns in its design. It's usually used by government entities to create parks and other outdoor recreation areas, but you can also use it to design your own yard.
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Definition and Impact of Sustainable Landscaping
When you apply the three pillars of sustainability—ecological, economic, and social—in your landscape design, you prepare your landscape to survive hard times and thrive in your natural locale. How is your garden doing?