Overwhelmed by Energy Saving Options? Start Small!

When you’re just start­ing to look at cut­ting down those sky­rock­et­ing energy bills, it’s easy to get over­whelmed — where to begin? What’s most impor­tant? And specif­i­cally, how can you get the best return on your invest­ment? It’s tempt­ing to go for the big, notice­able things — the new win­dows, the new roof, the new… more



$10 off $25 Order @ Our New Green Irene E-Store!

Fresh Green Image is now relaunch­ing our Green Irene e-commerce store with new green prod­ucts for fam­i­lies and busi­nesses! Just click the My Green Store but­ton at right and explore our top-of-the-line prod­ucts designed to help you live a health­ier, more sus­tain­able life. We’ve added hun­dreds of new prod­ucts and cre­ated a great new e-commerce expe­ri­ence,… more

Spring Rain Has You Soggy & Waterlogged?
Save It for a Sunny Day!

When spring rains are beat­ing against your win­dows and gully-washing down the street, you prob­a­bly don’t see all that water as a trea­sure that you should save. But the truth is -  all that water is head­ing directly into your neighborhood’s storm sew­ers, wash­ing off pre­cious top­soil nutri­ents (or expen­sive fer­til­izer, seed and other spring… more

Guest Blogger — Green Your Printing & Save Green

While my nearly-paperless office uses a high-quality inkjet for my small print­ing needs, I have friends who rou­tinely spend hun­dreds of dol­lars for new laser toner car­tridges. Sure, the out­put may be mea­sured in thou­sands (or tens of thou­sands) of pages, but the cost of the car­tridges is.…well, steep! It’s steep for the earth as… more

Raising Cash with Dead Pens

As a writer, I’m pretty par­tic­u­lar about my pens. They’ve got to have the right feel, the right heft, the right balancing…they need to be ever-ready with the right flow of ink, with no blot­ting or fruit­less loop­ing before a mark appears. And they must — repeat MUST — be refill­able. I have work­ing pens… more

Do You Buy Green to Reduce Your Carbon Footprint?

I’m doing some­thing a lit­tle dif­fer­ent today…and I need your help. Just yes­ter­day, I read an arti­cle on Treehugger.com about the ongo­ing debate: whether “greens focus too much on cli­mate change.” After all, con­sum­ing less energy and water, sav­ing nat­ural resources for com­ing gen­er­a­tions, liv­ing in clean, non-toxic indoor envi­ron­ments, and not lit­ter­ing the world with… more

Is the Air in Your House Worse than Smog?

That’s a pretty out­ra­geous ques­tion to ask — after all, most of us spend a good bit of time and money on cleansers, dis­in­fec­tants, air fresh­en­ers, etc., etc.! And that’s just the prob­lem. With 80,000 chem­i­cal com­pounds in com­mon com­mer­cial use, from rugs and cab­i­nets to per­sonal care prod­ucts to house­hold cleansers, our indoor air is… more

How to Compost in a Blizzard

So you’ve pre­pared a com­fort­ing, nour­ish­ing, eco-friendly veg­gie stew to warm you down to your toes while the bliz­zard howls out­side, and the time’s come to dis­pose of the peel­ings and trim­mings. What to do? You go to the win­dow and peer through the white-out,  try­ing to see the dome of snow on top of your… more

Green Candles and Guest Bloggers

One of the won­der­ful things about the green busi­ness com­mu­nity is that, well, it is a com­mu­nity,  shar­ing many of the same goals, val­ues and cer­tainly the same over­rid­ing mis­sion: to care for and pro­tect the Earth.  In that com­mu­nity spirit, you’ll often find green busi­nesses join­ing forces and col­lab­o­rat­ing in mutual support…as some­one said,… more

Beware BPA Exposure, Says the FDA (At Last!)

Why does this look to me like another (obvi­ous) argu­ment against let­ting an indus­try self-regulate and self-test? Today, Lind­say Lay­ton of the Wash­ing­ton Post revealed that after years of rum­blings from the sci­en­tific, med­ical and pub­lic health com­mu­ni­ties, the FDA has finally expressed con­cerns that per­haps Bisphe­nol A — the chem­i­cal com­pound used to harden… more

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