Here’s a safe, cheap, earth-friendly weed control: Spray those bad guys with a mixture of a gallon of white vinegar and an ounce of bio-degradable dish soap.
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Here’s a cheap, earth-friendly weed control: Spray those bad guys with a mixture of a gallon of white vinegar and an ounce of bio-degradable dish soap.
[For more easy, money-saving, Earth-friendly tips, get a FREE copy of Green Riches: Help the Earth & Your Budget. Go to www.Smashwords.com/books/view/7000 or your favorite e-book seller and load it onto your computer or e-book device. Totally free, with no strings attached.]
“Consumption has become a habit, a hobby and a sport” (Evy McDonald, Spending Money as if Life Really Mattered). True. I recycle but don’t always buy items with the “chasing arrows”/recycled content label. I should prepare more of my own meals (cheaper, healthier, less wasteful). Then there’s all those gadgets in my kitchen—what do I actually use and which really make life easier? I can go through my home and give away stuff that’s no longer useful or that I’m keeping out of compulsion or the status I think they give me. I can use the library rather than accumulating books. And visit museums, art exhibits, etc. instead of buying more dust-collectors. As an experiment, I plan to set aside a time in which I try not to waste a single thing all day. That will help care for both me AND the Earth.
Are you thinking about redoing part of your yard, or even all of it? Now is a good time to do some eco-thinking. The right yard can be friendly to our planet, easy to keep up, cheap to maintain, and beautiful, all at once. Before reaching for your gardening tools or taking a trip to the local plant nursery, consider what is in the article “How to Put Your Yard to Work for the environment.”
Tonight, cook dinner and throw away 1/3 before you serve it to your family. Sounds not only wasteful but downright stupid, doesn’t it? However, that’s the amount of the food that we grow in our world that goes to waste. And yet there is famine, hunger, and food insecurity among children while our landfills overflow.
Supermarkets put out only the perfect produce for us to buy. They know that we won’t pay their prices for misshapen vegetables or fruit that has a slight bruise. Not that we get the chance to buy it, because stores toss it out, even though it tastes the same and is just as nutritious. After all, it’s all grown the same, in dirt or dangling from buggy trees.
I like the idea of a Canadian company who is packaging its appropriately named “No Name Naturally Imperfect” produce. These fruits and veggies can sell to markets cheaper, and markets can sell to us for less. In fact, Raley’s Nob Hill has announced that they’ll do just that in the near future.
I’ll be in line to buy it. I like saving money, getting a bargain, and eating apples that aren’t perfectly rounded or a shiny uniform color. Who knows? I might even learn to eat healthy.