Month: June 2014

  • Herbs for health

    Herbs for health

    Asthma, Cancer, diabetes, heart diseases, and obesity. Look around and ask. How many people have at least one of the above listed chronic health conditions? Too many to count, I bet. With the ever increasing rate in chronic health conditions worldwide, the need for a healthy living becomes top priority. But, what does one do?…

  • Go green the older way – GARDENING

    Go green the older way – GARDENING

    Gardening is one such recreational activity that gives delight and helps passing of leisure time. It is often adopted as a hobby by many and some take it up as a passion. Gardening gives pleasure to the aching soul and refreshes one after a hard day’s work. Early in the morning a walk in the…

  • Small steps make a Big Difference

    Small steps make a Big Difference

    There are tons of small things that we can do at home to help in reducing landfill waste, cleaning the air, preserving our natural landscape and help in reducing carbon footprint, creating a healthier home and lowering monthly bills to boot. Let’s fasten our seat – belts and go on a ‘Green Adventure’ and take…

  • Weight loss – the green way

    Weight loss – the green way

    Nowadays, almost everything that we eat is processed in some kind of factory or the other. Nothing that we consume is natural anymore. All the nutrients that are available in the natural food are lost and what we finally consume as the end product is but a shadow of what the original was. Without exception,…

  • Who causes Forest Fire – Nature or Human Beings?

    Who causes Forest Fire – Nature or Human Beings?

    One of the most harmful natural disasters to the environment is the Forest Fire. A forest fire or a wild fire, as the name suggests, is combustion of a large area covered with trees or other vegetation. Wildfires mostly occur in the regions of hot and dry climate, like Australia. The wet or cold climate…

  • 10 Eco-friendly gifting-ideas

    10 Eco-friendly gifting-ideas

    Someone’s birthday coming up? Or you want to impress someone? Or maybe just give them a little surprise? But, you don’t seem to know how ! Gifts are always the best way to win anyone’s heart. What if you relate this to the go- green idea? It would be wonderful to gift someone by making…

  • Food waste generation; Why should we care?

    Food waste generation; Why should we care?

    The world population is expected to reach 9 billion by 2030 and this large population will require food to eat, to survive. This means that in the coming years we need to produce more food to feed this extra 2 billion, while ensuring that we also produce and provide enough to feed the millions in…

  • 7 Eco-friendly must-have gadgets

    7 Eco-friendly must-have gadgets

    The green living strategies have attained a new modified course. They are now inculcated in technology too. With the green-living concepts that are now on full-swing, the mantra of reduce, reuse and recycle has been considered to be a way of life .Green appliances, green homes and now green gadgets too.!! If you’re a tech…

  • A greener way to make cheese

    A greener way to make cheese

    We often don’t realize the amount of environmental damage that we are causing whenever we place a fresh cut of cheddar on the plate or wedge a slice of cheese in between our sandwich. Cheese though vegetarian in nature and seemingly harmless to the environment is actually causing severe pollution to the land and the…

  • Save paper: Eco-friendly printing

    Save paper: Eco-friendly printing

    Trees are dying. The fear of deforestation has assaulted our gullible planet. Yet, we cut down trees for our selfish purposes and waste paper for unnecessary printing which could be replaced by e-books or e-documents. Moreover, the futile felling of trees for trivial needs has resulted in a massive negative impact called as global warming.…