If you’re planning to purchase a tree this Christmas, the greenest choice is a living tree that can be reused or replanted.  If this is not an option, natural cut trees are preferable to artificial varieties.  Although artificial trees are potentially endlessly reusable, they are usually made from non-renewable PVC plastic, contain trace amounts of [...]

Since the holiday season is soon approaching here are just a few tips to consider:
Purchase greeting cards made from recycled or tree-free materials.  Americans send two billion holiday cards each year, so just a 1 percent reduction could save fifteen thousand trees.
Rogers, Elizabeth, and Thomas M. Kostigen. The Green Book.  New York: Three Rivers Press, 2007.
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Line dry your sheets in warm months.  If you’ve got two trees in you back or side yard, you can string up a clothesline in minutes.
Trask, Crissy.  It’s Easy Being Green. Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2006.
I line dry all of my cleaning rags, towels, sheets, and clothes.  One simple tip from me…..don’t forget the fabric softener!  [...]

Buy phosphate-free detergent.  Phosphates are a cause of oxygen depletion in water, leading to the loss of aquatic life.
Trask, Crissy.  It’s Easy Being Green. Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2006.
Greener Cleaners - Tucson ‘Green’ House Cleaning

It seems like every time I mention to anyone that I am a professional housekeeper, I get one of two common responses…..”That’s hot!” or “What product work best on….?” The truth is that while one is more flattering than the other, I’ll leave it to you to decide which one, I am speechless each time. [...]

It’s becoming the time of year that children dream about for 13 months out of the year.  A time where a jolly old man works his way down chimney’s to leave gifts for those young children that have behaved. 
For the fathers, it’s the time of year we search for and dig through boxes that [...]

Check your tire pressure once a month, and before long trips, to keep tires at their optimal pressure for better gas mileage.
Trask, Crissy.  It’s Easy Being Green. Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2006.
Greener Cleaners - Tucson ‘Green’ House Cleaning

If you will be camping, leave the campsite and park better than you found it.  Carry all trash out with you; do not burn or bury garbage of any kind, and check your campsite thoroughly to make sure nothing gets left behind.
Trask, Crissy.  It’s Easy Being Green. Utah: Gibbs Smith, 2006.
A really “fun” game my [...]

OK, so it may seem that all I’m doing with these “Green Tips” is taking some other persons work and posting it on my site. In my eyes it’s really something greater than that. Too, it’s not like I’m taking credit for their work either. Thus the works cited. I could very [...]

If you routinely shower before work in the morning and then again after your evening visit to the gym, consider switching to a morning workout and showering just once a day.  You’ll save about two hundred gallons of water for each shower you subtract from your schedule.  Over the course of a year, you could [...]