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Have you ever painted a really small and tight room and felt like you were gonna fall to the floor or pass out from the fumes? It certainly can’t be a good thing right? Stupid question (I know), but...

There's a lot that the unemployed can learn from freegans, many of whom choose to be jobless because of the freedom their lifestyle affords. Read on to learn about 50 freegan habits and strategies you can take up to live a cheaper, less wasteful life.

If you are interested in living green than be aware of what you buy and what it’s packaged in.  Skip the tortured process of

Do you want to help save the environment but prefer to keep your hands clean? Well now you can help plant a new forest from the comfort of your home. My'It'Things will plant 10 trees for every green article submitted through its website, with a goal of planting ten thousand trees. Best of all, the writer of the best 'green' article on the site will be awarded $1,000!

You may or may not have noticed a small little face-lift on the site over the weekend, a quick little botox if you will. In the bottom left corner of the page on the sidebar is a badge for the 350 Challenge. A small addition to help make a difference, the simple message that we tirelessly preach here at Ecologicliving.

It's easy to have a beautiful wedding without the usual wastefulness of traditional weddings. Here are some tips for keeping it eco-friendly, natural and low-impact when you tie the knot.

Once inside, you will be transported into a silent dream world courtesy the structure’s sound filter. The Garden’s exoskeleton is made out of a metal frame which has ladders for kids to have a whale of a time.

I bet you’ve read dozens of articles telling you to switch to low energy light bulbs and to insulate your cavity walls if you want to save energy and be green. I know I have. And that’s all very well if you own your own home and have the money available to buy those CFL light bulbs. But what if you don’t? Are you doomed to live a life of excess and waste just because you can’t afford to go green? I think not. There are plenty of things that you can do that will curb your carbon emissions and save yourself some money to boot.

Sometimes circumstances make it difficult to do the "big things" when improving the sustainability of your house. Things like installing solar cells, or replacing hot water systems. This article covers how some simple changes, like turning down the thermostat and replacing light bulbs, was enough to cut one household's power consumption by almost a third.

Hello again everyone, how we all doing today? Throughout this year there have been outstanding festivals, conventions, and events for green design, green energy, green living, you name it. Unfortunately I did not manage to make it to any of these that I wanted to, but there was no shortage of updates and articles from sites and blogs all over the internet, much appreciated! Today I would also like to briefly talk about yet another green design that caught my eye.

So here I am again talking about an energy company going green. Theres so many issues and ethics to consider here it makes you want to be sick. An energy company going green? I know....I know, but todays post is a little different. Here we have an energy company going green, and they are largely based in California. With that being said, it may be possible to consider them actually going green due to strict regulations in California and well just being in the "green" state of California. The company is PG&E, and their amazing slogan is "We Can Do This"!

While our green consumption may make us feel good, like we've done our little penance, the consumer culture is at the root of our climate and energy crises. This Guardian writer predicts that it will take governmental rationing, in the style of a war effort, to motivate the kinds of behavioral changes that are needed. She hopes for "... a low-consumption economy oriented towards facilitating the real sources of human fulfilment. Most of us dimly recognise that huge lifestyle changes are necessary, but we're waiting for someone else to initiate the process."

Green gifts for the whole family.

We’ve done bikes, cars, boats, and even planes here, but we never expected to see this one. As part of General Electric’s ecomagination campaign, the engineers behind this project dreamt up a way to transform one of the oldest and most powerful forms of transportation in the planet into an energy efficient marvel. Introducing, the Hybrid Locomotive!

Previously we have talked about the wine industry, the whole glass bottle situation, and the possibilities of TetraPak. Today I would like to talk about a new wine that not only uses an alternative to a glass bottle, but also plants a tree for every bottle that is purchased!