Green Living Highlights

If you're looking to make your home greener, a good place to start is with eco-friendly bathroom products. With some simple changes, you can eliminate a lot of chemicals and products that damage the environment. Patty Kim of the Green Guide shows how we can all have green bathrooms.

In this episode we teach you how to make your own high spf, water proof sunblock from organic and natural ingredients for pennies on the dollar compared to buying it off the shelf. Ingredients include- zinc oxide (sunblocking agent), coconut oil (soothes and conditions skin), bee's wax (waterproofing agent), and tea tree oil (soothes and repairs skin and smells good too). Rub on and paddle out.

Here are Fine Living smart tips on solar outdoor lighting.

Dave learns from Ed Snodgrass, an expert on green roofs and a speaker at the 2009 New England Grows exhibition and educational conference, how green roofs are changing the urban and suburban landscape.

Maintaining a beautiful, environmentally friendly lawn and garden is easy with these cost-effective solutions from expert Mark Cullen.

What does it mean to grow vegetables organically? Scott Meyer, editor of Organic Gardening magazine shows how to plant and nurture an organic vegetable garden.

Mike Agerbo speaks with Aryne Sheppard from the David Suzuki Foundation with tips on how to make your workplace a little more environmentally friendly.

Make your next soiree a green party! Check out some eco-fabulous ideas to get you started.

Have you ever calculated your food miles? That’s the distance food has to travel to get to your table. If you reduce your food miles and buy local food produce, you’ll help the environment and your local farmers. Author Anna Lappe of the Small Planet Institute has tips to help you find, buy, and eat locally grown foods.

Cleaning expert Matt Iseman reveals the often-overlooked places in the bathroom you need to keep clean, and shares his green cleaning recipes.

Packing material is no friend to the environment. It takes significant energy to produce and often ends up in the landfill after a single use. BNET correspondent Sumi Das looks at some greener options.

Learn the hidden carcinogens lurking in your home, and get Fran Drescher's top tips for a carcinogen-free life.

Learn some of the most realistic ways to go green, as well as some surprising tips for the Eco-minded.

The household thermostat has always been difficult to program, wasting energy and driving up your utility bill. BNET correspondent Sumi Das explains how new networking technologies will one day connect your thermostat and meter to your PC, enabling you to track, monitor, and analyze energy usage.

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