Tag Archives: green home

Healthy Halloween Treats for Little Critters

It's that time of year when the sugar-fueled mania of your kids threatens to drive you mad. But with a little imagination, you can get them to eat healthy Halloween treats. These awesome healthy Halloween snack ideas are just what the doctor ordered!

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Best Ever Pickled Onion Recipe

It's that time of year when our onion harvests are in and pickling and preserving are the order of the day. If you pickle your onions soon, they'll be ready in time for your holiday festivities and some pretty interesting incidents under the mistletoe!

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Eco-Friendly and DIY Bathroom Mat Ideas

Eco-friendly and DIY upcycled bath mats that you can make yourself will help to give your bathroom a little green pick-me-up. You don't have to spend a fortune just to keep your tootsies dry!

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What has the Internet ever done for Us?

Let’s start with a big question and then go from there. Today’s big question is this: How green is the internet? To be fair, it’s a question that’s already been asked - not least at a Google sponsored summit in 2013 that included Bill Gates as a keynote speaker. The answer is, perhaps inevitably, not quite as bright, shiny and cheerfully upbeat as all those shiny screensavers would have you believe. Lest we forget, the internet runs on electricity.

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6 (Polite) Reasons to Love Canadians

When you start typing “Canadians are… into Google, it suggests ‘weird’ as an ending to that sentence, but I would like to proffer ‘polite’ as a far more accurate description. I’m not Canadian, but I have been living in the heart of Toronto for nearly four years now and I can guarantee that Canadians truly are the most polite people on earth. Here’s some of the sweet, sweet ways in which they brighten my every day.

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