7 Eco-Friendly Tips to Keep Your Home Bug-Free This Spring
Spring is the best time to get outside, enjoy the fresh air and grill in your backyard. The warm weather is refreshing after many long months of freezing rain and snow, but you’re not the only one enjoying the change in climate. Bugs also crawl out into the sunshine and start looking for food or […]
Tips to Prepare Your Garden for Spring
Spring is just around the corner, so it is time to roll up your sleeves and get your hands dirty. As the days become warmer and warmer, the frost from winter months begins to thaw, there will be more spring gardening tasks facing you. Just looking at the leaves left in autumn, dead grass stalks, […]
Eco-Conscious Living: Sustainable Home Furnishing Tips
Furnishing your home in a sustainable way may be daunting when you’re not familiar with the basics of a green household. However, with current environmental pollution levels, finding new ways to preserve valuable resources is something definitely worth your while, as it can help preserve the environment for future generations. And since you’re already planning […]
7 Eco-Friendly Office Cleaning Tips
We are all moving towards a greener lifestyle at home, but what happens when we walk into the office? Toxic household cleaning chemicals are well documented, along with their dangers and damage to the environment. Ethical shoppers are spending extra time in grocery store aisles, choosing eco-friendly cleaning products to put in their trolley/cart, but […]
How to Maintain Your Landscape in a Drought
Maintaining your landscape is good in that it makes your home the envy of your neighbors and visitors. It is also one of the surest ways of improving your home’s resale value. However, this is not an easy thing to do especially in a drought. Your landscape remarkably gives your home the beautiful green color […]
Purple Grasshopper | Green Wings Award
This is new…I mean, I’ve seen green grasshoppers before, but never a purple one. While its bright color definitely makes it stand out, I can’t imagine that’s a good thing when trying to hide from potential predators. If you’re going to hop among the blades of grass or climb along the green leaves of local […]
Nature Taking Over
Although these train tracks might have once been a sign of “progress” and a way for people and goods to get from one place to another, this part of the urban jungle is slowly being reclaimed by Mother Nature. In fact, she seems to be having her way in this part of town with plants, […]
3 Ways To Improve Your Indoor Air Quality Naturally
Providing the best for loved ones comes naturally to any head of the family. Homeowners go through great lengths to ensure the comfort and safety of their household. Did you know the quality of indoor air is often worse than the air outside? Many factors make the air inside your home unhealthy. In fact, there […]
Going Organic: 10 Edible Garden Plants and Flowers
Gardening has countless benefits. Not only does a well-kept garden add beauty to a property, the act of gardening can be extremely beneficial to one’s health. You get to be outdoors in nature, get some natural Vitamin D and you get your hands dirty creating your own little masterpiece. Tending your own garden can be […]
Green Door
This green door earns today’s Biofriendly Image of the Day. Not only is the door itself green, but it’s surrounded by a green, living wall. Even though it’s locked so we don’t know what’s on the other side, the heart in the middle of the door is a sign of love. Maybe it’s a love […]