How To Be Green At Work

How To Reuse Everyday Items

Step 1: Save newspapers

Don’t automatically discard your morning newspaper. Use it in place of paper towels to clean glass and mirrors (it doesn’t leave streaks!), shred it to make packing material, use it as a fire starter, and wrap gifts with it.

How to Make A Bath Rug From Old Towels

Michelle teaches us how to make an extremely usable, beautiful, cushy eco-friendly bath rug using old, used bath towels.

Green Jobs Calling

by Madeline Ostrander,Yes Magazine

The citizens of two cities are finding the customers, finances, and skills to put together green jobs.

New Bedford, a former industrial and whaling town in eastern Massachusetts, hasn’t seen much economic prosperity since the early 20th century, the peak of the textile industry. But community leaders hope their town can be the center of a green economy boom, and locals have taken it upon themselves to drum up demand.

Green Ways To Avoid Getting The Flu

Yes, winter is around the corner and you know that you are going to get bedridden with the flu and that there is nothing you can do about it -- so you think? It is assumed that the average adult gets the cold anywhere between 1 to 5 times a year. Is there anything you can do to minimize the number of times you fall sick and can't get to do the things you find most enjoyable to do in wintertime. And is there anyway you can avoid taking those "anti-green" medications like antibiotics?