Green Living Tips for Rednecks
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Apparently Americans generate between 10,000 and 15,000 pounds of carbon dioxide each year. Much of this is used by our vehicles, but we also use a lot of energy cooking our food. There are a number of ways we can have greener kitchens.
If you are planning to remodel your kitchen then this is the best [...]
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A small crowd gathered around the cider press back of the local food co-op. Batch by batch, volunteers took turns loading plump red and gold apples into the hopper and grinding the fruit into an aromatic pulp, called mast. Under the intent gaze of watching children, they loaded the mast into a lined wooden tub [...]
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Forget ants. Yellow jackets are much more likely to ruin your picnic, especially in late summer when they’re most hungry for sugary food. Here’s a simple wasp trap you can make yourself that will take the sting out of the little buggers’ visits.
1. Get yourself a 2-liter plastic soda bottle. [...]
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Ah, September. Basking in the sun. Bringing in summer’s bounty. And…swatting yellow jackets.
These ubiquitous little wasps come out of hiding in late summer and fall as their colonies mature. Adult yellow jackets feed mostly on sugars – flower nectar and fruit (and soda pop when they can get it.) The [...]
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Are you one of the masses of people who don’t reduce reuse and recycle because figuring it all out is just too discouraging. Which bin is for what? How do you know what’s recyclable and what’s not?
Does your city or town have a recycling program? Click here to search for recycling centers. If your locality [...]
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Nothing ruins a happy home, yard, and garden like uninvited guests – by which I mean destructive critters that thwart your efforts to build and maintain a household and home. Worse is that most of the pest-control “solutions” out on the market are toxic not only to the pests but to you and me and [...]
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Being a Redneck is more a matter of where your heart lies than where you happen to be at the moment – as you well know if you’re still dreaming of your little piece of heaven.
Many of us have had to scrimp and save before we could afford to buy us a piece of land. [...]
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Here are just three green ways to save you money at the grocery store:
Buy Generic
The store brand is still a brand, but it’s better than the name brand for more than just its price. Generic or “store brand” groceries usually have the same ingredients and are made the same way as their brand name counterparts. [...]
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Oh no – I did it again!
If you believe the principles of feng shui, a south-facing range is a recipe for burned meals. In my case I suspect it has more to do with my habit of leaving the stove in order to “sneak in just one more paragraph” of whatever writing project I [...]
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A while back a company was making “Barnyard Tea” in actual tea bags. According to sites selling the stuff:
“A Canadian company has devised a method of drying organic manure, preserving the nutrients and removing all odors. Then they package it in standard tea bags. Being made from a blend of cow, chicken, pig and [...]
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