Top 6 Clean Green Cleaning Tips - Cleaning Your House The Natural Way

Six Tips from The Chicago Tribune for cleaning your home the green, natural way: Baking soda, borax, white vinegar and lemons. That’s all you need to start “green cleaning” this spring, a cheap, healthy and environmentally ... that do not contain chlorine or phosphates. Products include Bioshield Dishwasher Concentrate, Earth Friendly [more...]

Date: 2009-01-10 08:34:02

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Eco-Friendly Cleaning Products

Fresh eggs: clean green Daniel Jeffreys - SCMP - Updated on Jan 18, 2009 Traditionally, ... at ThreeSixty, who describes himself as a dedicated environmentalist. “Using chemical-free cleaning ... and apartments will be scoured with all manner of cleaning fluids to ensure bad luck and evil spirits [more...]

Date: 2009-01-18 01:22:18

Submitted Tips

Are you new to Tip Junkie? If so, check out our Frequently Asked Questions. Hey Ladies! Time to spotlight some fun women and their current projects ... . Tori submitted Green Cleaning made simple. How to clean with baking soda, frugal and environmentally friendly. LuAnn's doing some Christmas sewing and submitted her ideas for creating pouches [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 00:13:29

Sears Carpet Cleaning Service Guys Goes Green With Eco-Friendly Cleaners

While Dalworth Carpet Cleaning is high on the homecare lists of folks in the Dallas area, ... for property owners. These include air duct cleaning, water extraction in the event of water damage and tile ... the Sears Carpet Cleaning Service offers a wider-based solution for homeowners [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 21:34:46

Can Carpet Cleaning be Green or Eco Friendly?

A little bit of a departure from my usual spiritual musings, but an important topic none-the-less ... the last week, I've called the rental office back to inquire about the carpet cleaner and was told it was a small business that cut the complex a good rate for a standard carpet cleaning.OK, something [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 23:53:00

9 Easy Ways to Green Your Home

Greening up your home is actually a lot simpler than spending thousands on solar panels for your roof, ... throwing something away. 6 - Choose eco-friendly or green commercial cleaning supplies, or make your own. Vinegar, for example, is a powerful cleaning agent, no ammonia or bleach needed! Consider [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 13:41:19

Green, User-Friendly, and High-Tech

Solar panels and wind generators are two examples of green technology, but cleaning products and disposable diapers can also be called green products if they’re made to be environmentally friendly. Perhaps any device that reduces pollution, or cuts fossil fuel [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 03:50:00

making wind farms eco-friendly neighbors

.. Wind power is a popular and growing source of “green” and clean energy ... that the process of getting wind-turbine “farms” approved by towns and villages is also clean — free ... .  As Art says at his website: They may be touted as “green and clean,” but inappropriate siting [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 01:42:13

Clean Green!

by: AJ McCreary, PICurrent Assistant Producer ... at a price. Or does it? Cleaning Green has been around for centuries. It just hasn’t been sold as “environmentally friendly”, but mainly as practical or inexpensive. These old time cleaning practices [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 13:15:47

Goldstar Realty’s Green Property Management

Goldstar Realty provides property owners green tools to improve and enhance their investment properties rental value including: green contractor rehab options, earth friendly property cleaning and maintenance, a recycling focus and energy consumption audits.  Call us today to discuss your investment property needs [more...]

Date: 2008-08-30 21:34:13

Go Green in 2009: Clean up your act

While we certainly won't advocate wearing your underwear multiple days in a row to reduce the amount of energy and water used for your laundry ( ... : Use eco friendly cleaning products or make your own. Many effective cleaners (vinegar, lemon ... . Greener: Find a line of environmentally-conscious cleaning products, and give yourself an extra [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:30:41

Keep Your Home Clean By Going Green

Every one's talking about "going green" but would you believe that steam cleaners can be green, too? It's true! Vapor steam cleaners are a natural way to clean without the use of non-environment-friendly ... mite and remove mold and bacteria. This is done using dry steam at high temperatures which sanitize [more...]

Date: 2008-08-02 05:36:47

Lifestyle - Solay Simple Makes Cleaning Easy and Eco-Friendly

solay simple cleaning products We’ve all purchased household cleaners that weren’t as effective as their commercials led us to believe, ... of salt. This natural cleaning agent is mixed with additional non-toxic ingredients like purified water ... of green cleaners also includes a fruit and veggie wash, laundry soap, dish soap and glass cleaner [more...]

Date: 2008-09-26 11:00:00

GREENING THE WEST - Will you have a green Christmas?

With only hours to go until Christmas, if you haven’t finished buying gifts you are in big trouble ... with my “it’s good to be green” theme, I’ll give gifts that are environmentally friendly and simple ... , but it’s part of my mission to spread the message of “Green is good”: cleaning products. I’ll [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 01:07:05

O.C. ‘green’ firm gives 700,000 greenbacks to workers

Earth Friendly Products, a Garden Grove producer of environmentally friendly cleaning products, has given its 120 employees $700, ... s reputation for being expensive, we enable environmentally aware consumers to afford products ... 000 in Christmas bonuses.   The bonuses reflect Earth Friendly’s ability to defy sales woes [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 14:00:04

Take A Shortcut to Clean and Still Stay Green!

Ecostore   While we love mixing up clever concoctions for cleaning around the house and trading stain removal tips, sometimes grabbing a bottle of something eco friendly for cleaning is a good [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 23:10:06

Decor - Easy, Eco-Friendly Bathroom Cleaning

You know how after you clean your bathroom with harsh chemical products it reeks for days? ... your tub fresh, the Green Mandarin and Leaf shower cleaner by Seventh Generation is non-toxic ... Enzymes’ natural drain opener. This eco-alternative is a non-caustic, non-toxic and biodegradable way [more...]

Date: 2008-07-28 16:37:00

Tis’ the Season to Be Clean (and Green)! Part 1

My husband absolutely insists on having a clean house.  I, on the other hand, am not as keen on the actual process of cleaning ... and protect most hard surface floors, strengthening the floor and leaving a streak-free, shiny finish ... table very soon).   Perfect Planet is Weiman’s environmentally friendly line of cleaners designed [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 06:33:30

Ten Things I Really Don't Think YOU Know About ME

Kelly, I loved reading all those things about you! I was deeply, truly shocked by some of them. Dude, no tampons? Wha? ... to be as green as I can. I buy mostly organic and use all eco-friendly cleaning products, but once a week I freak out and scarf down McNuggets and fries and I've gone back to putting scrubbing bubbles chemical [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 14:49:07

Green Challenge Showcase: Boston Public Health Commission

Net Impact, a group of future and current leaders who use business to create positive change invited student and professional members to compete in ... , who had a few ideas about how to make the Commission a more environmentally-friendly operation ... cleaning program at one of our properties, piloting a “single-stream” recycling program at another [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 09:52:15

Consumers Won’t Be Fooled: Greenwashing Index Cleaning Up Advertising

We’ve hit the one-year mark for the Greenwashing Index, the online forum we created with partners at the University of Oregon, ... more time and money claiming to be green than actually implementing environmentally friendly practices ... , we hope it will drive advertisers to evaluate how they present green products and services [more...]

Date: 2009-01-16 22:29:46

Review: Baby Girl Products (contest and review, 29th)

When I was searching for things that would be neat to have for our green month here at Momdot, my Mom told me about a couple of local girls (in the Tampa area) that had created these all natural, non chemical, earth friendly cleaning ... a glass cleaner and an all purpose cleaner at my house for myself to review!  What service [more...]

Date: 2008-09-24 19:45:56

Chicago’s green schools

The Chicago Public Schools are getting a lot of attention these days, as the hometown of President-elect Barack Obama and Superintendent Arne Duncan, ... and embrace more environmentally friendly practices. Part of it is mandated by state law-the Illinois legislature required all schools in the state to adopt green cleaning practices in May 2008 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 15:40:17

Compact Florescent Nightmares

More ghoulish pranks from your “environmentally friendly” Marxist Green Monsters: ( ... and turned off your heat or air? Oh in your rush, did you forget to pack the baby??? Did you know that when you return to your home to clean up the mess of shattered bulbs, you cannot use a broom [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 21:38:00

Easy on the Earth… and the wallet

I gotta say, this economy is making me approach the holiday season with more concern than usual ... , Dad’s getting the business card holder made of a reused circuit board (for less than $20!). My sister with three kids gets the babysitting gift certificate or maybe the eco-friendly cleaning service [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 19:42:38

Guest Blog: Indie is the new Green by Jessica Gonacha - Greener Screenprinting

by guest contributor Jessica Gonacha ... and eco-friendly cleaners/solvents. 3. Wextix — offers water-based inks and environmentally-friendly cleaning options. 4. Post Expose, owned by Urban Inks in Long Island– offer eco-friendly screen [more...]

Date: 2008-06-16 18:52:07

Save green by being green

photo by janey henning Being frugal is eco-friendly. Some people don’t realize how frugality and green living go hand in hand ... -powered ones. HOMEKEEPING: Use natural, homemade cleaners, microfiber cloths or reusable cloth materials for surface cleaning and cloth napkins instead of paper; line-dry clothing; and turn off heat [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 05:43:13

Eco-Friendly yet Frugal Laundering

I thought a lot about being a frugal launderer, and in fact I even wrote a post on the 10 things you can do to save money on laundry ... ) of Simple Green cleaning fluid. (Source: Thrifty Living)Use Charlie's Soap (store bought), which [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 10:00:00

Five green things I learned in 2008

Five green lessons I learned in 2008:The cheap solution can be the green solution ... as various cleaning products. And a $6 package of Arm & Hammer at Sam’s Club is far cheaper – ... in discretionary income doesn’t mean you have to drop environmentally friendly habits. Whether [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 19:03:00

slap 'green' on it and go

If you're like us, you've probably noticed that every company seems to be promoting their wares as green these days, ... all-natural”, “environmentally-friendly”, and “earth-friendly.”Sin of Irrelevancee.g. CFC-free oven cleaners ... from water bottles that 'help save the planet' to disposable household cleaning cloths that 'save [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 14:36:00

The Cleaning of California

Andrew Wetzler wrote a powerfully worded Op-Ed in the LA Times, ... the importance of greening the energy grid as more environmentally friendly plug-in hybrids roll [more...]

Date: 2008-09-15 22:31:29

Go Green in 2009: What to do when you leave your house

I've spent the past couple of days discussing the things you can do around home to 'greenify' your lifestyle, from cleaning and organizing to conserving water. However, being environmentally friendly only starts there. Once you leave your home for the day to carry on with your daily business [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 18:30:41

I'll Have a Green Christmas Without You, Chemicals!

dkMommy Spot is hosting an entire week of eco-friendly, chemical-free giveaways to celebrate her week of "Dreaming of a Green Christmas."Some of the giveaways includeA Seventh Generation Home Starter Cleaning Kit (LOVE their products ... Plan Toys Fire EngineBadger Balm Duo (love their chemical-free sunscreen)Down to Earth Toys veggie [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 22:21:00

Go Green? Go NUTS.

Who knew that going nuts could be so much fun, and good for the environment too? ... lifestyle change would be to use Soap Nuts for almost any cleaning task at hand including the following ... as an environmentally friendly alternative to manufactured, chemical detergents . A few nuts [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 16:49:30

Get a reusable dry cleaning bag

So you’ve already picked out an eco-friendly dry cleaner, and dutifully take back your hangers for reuse ... , made with recycled cotton duck, organic cotton accents, and a leather label made using textile waste ... the contact info of your dry cleaner. Photos via Jendarling, Reusenik, and Green Garmento [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 00:48:52

Travel Green Category Definitions

Travel Green Category Definitions New in 2009 we are including Travel Green Practices on our website. www.ExploreMinnesota.com ... HVAC annually, use HEPA filters, test air periodically, environmentally responsible cleaning, fume-free products, use low VOC materials. Eco-friendly landscape & facility design: minimize water [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 20:18:26

Green Mom Jennie Garth Designs Reusable Bag To Benefit Sierra Club

Actress Jennie Garth of 90210 fame has teamed up with Green Works natural cleaners to design and promote a new environmentally-friendly 100% ... of the bag. “Like many moms, I’m on a journey to living a more natural lifestyle without sacrificing ... opportunity to share the message about natural cleaning, while supporting a deserving organization [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 16:06:54

Celebrate Green!

By now, we all know we're supposed to be taking steps to clean up our act when it comes to helping the environment, ... more earth-friendly - without making them less fun. The book is about so much more than just eco-friendly entertaining, though. It's a practical, accessible, and encouraging reference guide [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 18:41:31

The Green Wagon: Nashville’s First “Green” General Store

Entrepreneur Jennifer Casale is opening what she calls “Nashville’s first green general store” this Friday in Sylvan Park, ... more for being sustainable and environmentally friendly. And Jen herself is the real deal - She even ... Wagon will house a classic collection of general store merchandise, with everything from cleaning [more...]

Date: 2009-01-14 17:00:22

Paints Guide

Introduction This Green by Design buying guide is designed to assist you in choosing eco-friendly paints that reduce the threat of exposure to ... paint follow safe work practices, including: Containing the work area Minimizing dust Cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 08:41:35

Searching for an Eco-Friendly Vacuum Cleaner

Just the other day I wrote an article on the handy-dandy, electriticity-free way to clean your carpets: the carpet sweeper. Carpet sweepers are fine for light cleaning or touch-ups between proper vacuumings, but is there a way to "vacuum green"? Carpet vacuums have existed in one strance form or another since [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 09:06:11

Green Laundry: Nellie's All-Natural Oxygen Booster

If you use eco-friendly laundry detergent, ... , and environmentally safe. You can even use it for carpet and upholstery stain removal too, as well as cleaning [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 06:56:00

Pothole Killers to Introduce Their 'Green' Solution to Pothole Repair at The National League of Cities Exposition in Orlando

Pothole Killers Presenting New Eco Friendly Spray Injection Pothole Repair Technology MORRISVILLE, Pa., Oct. 10 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) ... . Using the PK2000 Patcher, equipped with an environmentally designed HPA re-circulation cleaning ... using recycled materials, with existing application, to create an environmentally safe product [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 14:29:37

Green Up Your Clean: Environmentally Friendly Cleaning Methods

This article by Beth Coughlin provides some tips for how you can “green up your clean” by using products that serve as ... effective use of them. Green cleaning is becoming a more common goal in housekeeping every day ... , and a host of other companies are offering green cleaning alternatives. However, there are some common [more...]

Date: 2009-01-17 01:15:33

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