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• Ants

  First ants invade your home, and then adding insult to injury you're swarmed with a hundred different natural options for getting rid of the buggers. It's great to have options, and better yet to have choices that won't poison the local groundwater or find their way into your air and food, but you want something that actually works!

• Solar Heater

  What do you think about free heat? Yeah, we though you might be okay with that. There are some great commercial and DIY solutions out there for warming your home, garage, or office practically out of thin air. Some of these are not the most elegant contraptions, but designs for converting solar energy into free forced-hot air vents are just amazing enough to make you shake your head and laugh--twice!

• Hydrogen Peroxide

  Hydrogen peroxide is a powerful oxidizer that kills bacteria, viruses and fungi on surfaces making it great for disinfecting your kitchen and bathroom without leaving behind the kinds of caustic chemical residues that can harm you and your family.

• Ants

  First ants invade your home, and then adding insult to injury you're swarmed with a hundred different natural options for getting rid of the buggers. It's great to have options, and better yet to have choices that won't poison the local groundwater or find their way into your air and food, but you want something that actually works!

• Autos: Fuel Efficiency

  A properly functioning, efficiently operating vehicle requires less fuel to cover the same distance -- operating at a lower Miles Per Gallon (mpg) ratio -- consequently costing you less money and emitting fewer pounds of carbon dioxide and other global warming gases.

• Autos: Reduce Pollution

  Almost one third of the carbon dioxide produced in the USA comes from cars, trucks and airplanes. Incentive: For every mile you don't drive, you save 1 pound of carbon dioxide. So if you don't drive 10 miles per week, over the course of a year, you will have saved 500 pounds of carbon dioxide!

• Baking Soda

  This inexpensive baking ingredient, always at hand, is an excellent alternative to a number of commercial cleaning and maintenance products.

• Carbon Credits/Offsets

  While it is impossible to both live and be non-carbon-emitting, it is possible to pursue carbon-neutrality, compensating for the amount of carbon your daily activities produce by planting trees or funding new renewable energy projects. Current options, with both nonprofit and for-profit companies, range from about $5.50 per metric ton of carbon dioxide offset to as much as $15.

• Carpooling

  Nothing is easier than popping into the car and heading off into the world -- two, three, four, or a dozen times a day without a second thought -- but each trip shoves more carbon dioxide and other pollutants down the planetary throat than any other activity in your typical day. Drive less, drive smarter, and don't drive alone.

• Cleaning Products

  Hygiene has rid the world of easily avoidable diseases, but our cure is starting to kill us. Opting for equally effective but considerably less toxic green cleaning products is the way to go, and a movement just beginning to catch stride.

• Donate

  No individual can solve the environmental problems of the world. Although we should each do our part, great and efficient organizations exist that concentrate on the broad picture or on narrow ecological issues, anything to suit your desire to participate.

• Drain Cleaners

  Those chemicals are going straight down the drain -- that's the point, after all -- but where they'll end up is back in our rivers, streams, lakes, and eventually our drinking water, not at all where they belong. These environmentally neutral solutions work just as well, clearing your drain as well as your conscience!

• Eat Local

  One of the new directions for the environmental movement is the idea of eating locally, that is eating from the farms and the food producers operating as near as possible to you rather than munching on peppers that had to be trucked, shipped, trained, and trucked again to your grocery store all the way from Brazil.

• E-Waste

  Electronics don't break down at all well, amounted to two million tons of U.S. trash in 2005 (while it's the most rapidly expanding category of waste), and many of the components are truly toxic.

• Energy Efficiency

  Everyone talks about new ways to produce electricity -- we love the magic and promise of science and technology -- but the best and swiftest way to reduce our carbon footprint is to use less fuel in the first place.

• Energy Star

  Practically everything you can purchase for your home or business can be found in models reviewed and approved by Energy Star, the well-respected government organization run by the U.S. EPA and Department of Energy that inspects home appliances and equipment, giving an easy to recognize Energy Star seal of approval to products that meet higher standards of energy efficiency.

• Geothermal Heating and Air

  The earth (generally speaking) stays between 45F and 75F. A Geothermal System would be installed where you could be trying to pulling 90F from the outside air and make it a comfortable 72F, using a Geothermal system and its underground coils to change the ambient temperature around the pipes closer to the desired temp in the house.

• Green Cleaning Products

  Some fantastic green cleaning products for your home, including apple cider vinegar, baking soda, and much more!

• Green Offices

  "Office Space" is one of the most popular shows on television for good reason, there's no end of jokes about how sterile the world of cubicles and fluorescent tubes can be. Doesn't mean your lifeless office has to be a drag on life in the rest of the world. Get your coworkers to go with you on a few small changes in the office and they'll multiply your own efforts to living sustainably.

• Green Roofs

  You may have noticed that a few cities in our Initiatives section have been pushing the concept of Green Roofs. This isn't a new concept in sustainable development, but it suddenly has renewed vigor. And it's always remarkable how a new generation rediscovers the wisdom of the past, such as in the case of sod roofs (even sod houses), turning up again as increasingly interesting to the environmentally minded crowd.

• Hardwood Floors

  There are many wood floors to choose from out there, but I angle towards some environmentally friendly and responsible options. Recycled hardwood is one such possibility.

• Home Heating Systems

  Most homes and public places require some amount of heating through the course of the year, whether it's a 365 day need inside the Arctic Circle or an occasional comfort on colder nights in a more tropical region. But fossil fuels, which have been the go-to source of hot air and boiler heating, not only have a tarnished reputation (all that soot, don't you know!) but prices are starting to blow the roof off the very home you're trying to keep warm and comfortable.

• Houseplants

  Tips on the care, propagation, watering, feed, and more of ouseplants, from Earth Clinic Planet.

• Hydrogen Peroxide

  Hydrogen peroxide is a powerful oxidizer that kills bacteria, viruses and fungi on surfaces making it great for disinfecting your kitchen and bathroom without leaving behind the kinds of caustic chemical residues that can harm you and your family.

• Insulation

  One of the Obama Administration's first efforts is in promoting improved insulation for businesses, government offices, and in low-income homes. Better, modern insulation reduces the money and energy wasted on both heating AND cooling. Before very long, the money you've invested in insulation and weatherproofing will pay itself back a dozen times over, but there is good insulation and then there is much better.

• Laundry

  Tips from Earth Clinic Planet to get your laundry clean without polluting the planet.

• Lighbulbs

  It may seem like a small act against a global problem, but the ubiquity of the light bulb offers us the opportunity to snowball each changed bulb into an avalanche of energy savings--and about $25 per bulb after energy costs are factored in.

• Medication Disposal

  Tips on how to safely dispose of your old medications.

• Mice

  Environmentally friendly tips on controlling mice.

• Paint

  Tips on low-VOC and other healthier, more planet-friendly paint options.

• Paper

  Paper towels, tissues, toilet paper, and other disposable paper products largely rely on virgin fiber -- living, breathing trees clear-cut from the world's forests -- to make life a trifling bit more convenient.

• Pay As You Throw

  With households, businesses, and organizations taken collectively in 2005, each and every American produced nearly a ton of garbage through his or her everyday activities of consumption in work and leisure. Approximately 4.5 pounds of waste per person per day tossed to the curbside.

• Philosophy of Green

  Tips and Ideas on how to live a Greener life.

• Plastic

  Tips on how to reduce your plastic consumption and reuse what you've got.

• Recycling

  Taking recyclable items to your local recyling center? You can separate your items into the following groups:

• Rust

  Rust tips and solutions from Earth Clinic Planet.

• Shopping

  Tips on making your shopping experience a little easier on the planet and your conscience!

• Shower and Bath

  Whether it's turning down the hot water heat, shortening your shower, turning off the water while you scrub up, or going for the cold shower there are plenty of ways to make your shower a place to clean the environment while you wash behind your ears!

• Solar Heater

  What do you think about free heat? Yeah, we though you might be okay with that. There are some great commercial and DIY solutions out there for warming your home, garage, or office practically out of thin air. Some of these are not the most elegant contraptions, but designs for converting solar energy into free forced-hot air vents are just amazing enough to make you shake your head and laugh--twice!

• Stains

  Tips on removing stains with everyday household products (instead of harsh chemicals).

• Toilets

  Tips and ideas on water efficient toilets.

• Water Conservation

  Fresh, drinkable water is becoming one of the world's most precious commodities, as increasing population pressures and intense agricultural usage drains our aquifers and pollutes the water left behind.

• White Roofs

  Steven Chu, the US Secretary of Energy and a Nobel laureate in physics has a plan for a better energy and climate future, and amazingly we all can understand it. He wants us to paint our roofs white. Simple enough, but the movement could be a real game-changer. According to recent studies, a white roof can reduce your air-conditioning costs by 20%. What's more, if the world's 100 largest cities required all their homes and buildings be capped by white roofs, that alone would roll back the pace of global warming by a couple of decades.

• Window Cleaner Products, Green

  Ever heard of cornstarch window cleaner? It's one of the best natural products for getting windows and mirrors sparkly clean!