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7 Ways to Create an Eco-Friendly Kitchen

An eco-friendly kitchen is helpful to the environment because it helps reduce your carbon footprint. It also helps you save money by conserving resources and reducing utility bills. Here are some ways for you to create an eco-friendly kitchen. 
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A Guide to Eco-Friendly Paints

Are you looking for a safer alternative to traditional interior paints? Read this guide to learn how to choose the right type of products for painting projects that will yield great results with a less negative impact on the planet and your family’s health. Here’s what you need to know about buying non-toxic paint safe for you and the environment.
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DIY Natural Cleaning Products

Keep your home clean and safe from harsh chemicals with these natural products and DIY cleaner recipes.
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8 DIY Humidifier Ideas

Heating systems tend to rob the air of much-needed moisture content, leaving you with itchy skin, stuffed sinuses, and poor air quality. These DIY humidifier ideas will help increase your home’s humidity for a more comfortable environment.
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The 5 Best Air Purifiers

Air purifiers create cleaner, healthier air that eases breathing and assists with allergies. In this review, we look at the best air purifiers on the market today.
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How to Clean Tile Grout With Homemade Cleaner

In this edition of DIY Smarts, Ask This Old House general contractor Tom Silva offers cleaning tips on how to get rid of dirty tile grout using only household supplies.
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All About Green Homes

A green home is house that’s both healthy for the environment and for its occupants, with the main criteria being energy efficiency, sustainability, durability, and human health.
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How to Remove Air Pollution in the Home

While a tight, well-insulated home is great for saving energy, trapping lots of stale air indoors can undermine your health. Here’s what you need to know to ensure that the quality of the air inside is healthy and free from harmful pollutants.
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What to Know About Non-Toxic Kitchen Cabinets

Protect your health by choosing one of these non-toxic materials for your cabinets.
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10 Summer Fixes

Easy ways to improve your home during the summer
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19 Easy Home Upgrades for April

Simple ways to improve your home this month
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Upgrades That Slash Energy Costs

Once drafty and underinsulated, a New England house gets a state-of-the-art efficiency makeover
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How to Install a Green Roof

Cut energy bills and reduce the strain on the environment with a roof covered in sedums
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9 Clean-Air Plants for Your Home

Learn about everyday houseplants that do double duty clearing out pollutants in your indoor air.
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Better Score for Energy Use

A new evaluation tool looks at more than just green building materials when deciding if a house is energy efficient
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10 Uses for Vinegar

This inexpensive kitchen staple—the distilled white kind, that is—can multitask in any room of the house.
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Health-Conscious Kitchen Cabinets

Why a pediatrician mom chose nontoxic kitchen cabinets for her young family's vintage home
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How Eight Homeowners Save Over $12,275 on Energy

How do they do it? By putting power-saving technologies to work inside their homes. You can do the same
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Eco-Friendly Holiday Decorations

Deck the halls with these stylish and recycled, all-natural, eco-friendly items
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The Recycled, Repurposed, Nontoxic House

How one couple remodelled and expanded a 1940 cottage with their children's future in mind
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Car That Doubles as a Backup Generator for Your House

A California utility develops a plug-in hybrid that keeps the house lights on for you
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22 Little Ways to Go Green

Here are some low-stress steps to take around the house to reduce your carbon footprint, create a healthier home, and lower your monthly bills to boot
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5 of the Best Nontoxic Cleaners You Aren't Using

The question is why? After all, they're within reach-right in your kitchen cupboard.

Green Roofs

Who says your garden has to be on the ground? An environmentally friendly trend grows—on rooftops.
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Green-Home Resolutions

Giving up carbs and quitting smoking are hard. Saving money, conserving energy, and making the world a better place are easy
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Creating a Safe, Healthy Playroom

Playrooms made with healthy, fun, durable, eco-friendly materials