51 Fantastic Uses for Baking Soda I don’t mean to sound seditious here, but I have a rebellious plan to combat the ills that many corporations are perpetrating in the name of fighting grime and germs. My main gripe is about the environmental pollutants from cleaning and personal care products that we wash down our drains and into our water systems, resulting in situations like the chemical triclosan (a pesticide added to many products as an antibacterial agent) being found in dolphins. So the simple plan is to encourage everyone to use baking soda in any of these 51 applications. Besides showing kindness to aquatic life, we can also protect ourselves from the array of toxins in household cleaning products. Conventional cleansers can expose us to multiple chemicals linked to asthma, cancer and other documented health problems. So exactly how does baking soda fit into my scheme to make the world a better place? Personal Care 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. Cleaning Love This? 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22.
L’ONU recommande de devenir vegan, et de taxer la viande – Vegactu Un rapport de l’ONU vient de pointer du doigt, comme jamais auparavant, le lien de cause à effet entre consommation de viande et réchauffement climatique. Et d’en tirer les conséquences : Une réduction substantielle des impacts [environnementaux] ne serait possible qu’avec un changement substantiel, au niveau planétaire, de régime alimentaire, d’où serait bannie la consommation de tout produit d’origine animale. Le Professeur Edgar Hertwich, auteur principal du rapport de l’ONU, a ajouté : Les produits animaux causent plus de dégâts que n’en cause la production de minéraux et de matériaux de construction, tels sables et ciments, plastiques ou métaux. Ernst von Weizsäcker, un spécialiste de l’environnement qui a co-présidé le groupe de travail de l’ONU, a quant à lui déclaré : Un rapport accablant Les produits animaux, viande et produits laitiers, nécessitent plus de ressources et causent des émissions de gaz à effet de serre plus importantes que les alternatives végétales. Précisions :
How To Get Old Stains Out Of Carpet | Remove Stains How To Get Old Dirt Stains Out Of Carpet What You Will Need Before You Start Carpet shampooer Vinegar Carpet pretreating solution, like Resolve Scrubbing brush Baking soda It can happen so quickly! Start by thoroughly vacuuming the carpet to remove loose dirt and debris. One thing to remember when learning how to get old stains out of carpet is that any stain that has been worked into the carpet fibers is likely going to need at least two treatments in order to loosen the dirt from the fibers. How To Get Old Food Stains Out Of Carpet White vinegar Absorbent white towels Baking soda When learning how to get old stains out of carpet, you will often hear that the sooner you treat a stain, especially a food stain, the easier it will be to get rid of the stain. Completely saturate the stained carpet with white vinegar. There are also many stain treatment products that can reactivate the enzymes in the stain and help to remove it completely from the carpet.
3 THINGS : ways to fight well with your boy- or girlfriend | jenny mustard as you know, i love hanging out with david. so much so in fact, that i’m willingly spending 24/7 with him. sharing both work and play time. ( for example, watch us hang out in our new MUSTARD ON MOVIES episode at the bottom of this post. ) come to think of it, i can’t even remember the last time one of us left the apartment without the other. oh yeah, david goes for jogs without me like 3 times a week. that’s about it for alone time. does that sound totally unhealthy ? working together and spending all waking time together does mean that we can totally get on each other’s nerves of course. especially since our work is very intense, with long hours, and with very few ( if any ) days off. and as soon as we get stressed out, the fights come running. annoyance, irritation, frustration. all the good stuff. a good fight should be an air cleaner, not a pollution causer. so here are my ideas on 3 things that can turn upsetting fights into makeup cuddles. let’s fight well – the gloves are coming off !
Square Foot Garden Designs, Tips, and Plans Save Click Here for Square Foot Garden WorksheetMeasure your garden space and plot it on graph paper implementing the square gardening scale. Keep taller vegetables on the north side. Sketch in the cool-season varieties. Calculate when those crops will mature so they can be replaced with warm-season plants. Combining block planting with culture techniques such as trellising or double cropping maximizes use of space. Square Foot Gardens for Convenience Ready to Plant the Garden The basic layout of square gardening prevents the need for endless tilling, weeding, watering, and pest patrol. The idea is to lay the groundwork of seed beds in separate blocks that are not over four feet wide. A walking space is laid out around all sides of each block to prevent trampling on the garden bed while working the individual plots. The square garden is sized just right so you can reach each plot easily when cultivating. To divide the gardens, you can use planks to serve as walkways. Square Foot Garden Plan
Why It's Okay To Cut Toxic Family Members Out of Your Life We get it, your connection with your family is supposed to be this mythical bond that nobody and nothing can break—however, sometimes it’s okay to distance yourself from certain family members, even if that means cutting them off indefinitely. You should never compromise your mental, emotional or physical health for the sake of tolerating a toxic family member. Before you start blocking Aunt Susan and your second cousin, it’s important to recognize the signs of a toxic person: 1. They’re judgmental. Constructive criticism is healthy, but persistent, unwarranted criticism can deteriorate anyone’s self-esteem. 2. Have you ever turned to a family member for some personal advice? 3. If your family member continually claims they never said something, when you and everyone else knows they did, it might not seem that serious. 4. Often, they’ll go to you for advice or emotional comfort. 5. They can lash out at you, yell and insult you.
Let It Marinate: The Importance of Reflection and Closing I am one of those people who regularly figures out exactly what to say after the moment has passed. I will be deep in conversation with someone, sharing thoughts and bouncing around ideas. Yet, as the thoughts swirl, I'll have an unsettled feeling. Often it is not until some time later, when the ideas have marinated, that I realize what matters most to me and how to say it. A Classroom Example Recently, we spent a chunk of one of my world history classes discussing an excerpt from The Power of Myth, a conversation that Joseph Campbell had with Bill Moyers about enduring myths and the human condition. The discussion was interesting but felt aimless. Students knew that this was the beginning of our religion unit and had spent time earlier in the week attempting to create a definition of religion, yet if felt as if no one knew how to successfully put these different pieces together into larger, coherent ideas with greater meaning. Deepening Learning Closings and Reflective Activities
Broken Pots Turned Into Brilliant DIY Fairy Gardens Never let those broken potted plants go to waste again, you can repurpose your planter! All that you need is a broken pot, your imagination, plants, and maybe some pieces of the broken pot to create an amazing fairy garden. Some people are going above and beyond, incorporating miniature houses, glass mushrooms, and colorful bird houses into their fairy garden. If you create one of your own, you never what sort of gnomes or fairies you will attract to your garden. Recycling is one of the best trends out there, after all if we don’t start reusing what we have, we are going to run out of resources and landfills before we know it. Plus, you’ll be going green in another way as well, enjoying the perks of working with flowers and fairy gardens. These DIY fairy gardens are the perfect craft to fill up your next unbooked weekend. Take a peek at the stairs in this fairy garden, don’t they sort of look like the pieces of a Jenga set? Here is where the great gnome lives!
50 Things Everyone Should Know by Mark and Angel Self-reliance is a vital key to living a healthy, productive life. To be self-reliant one must master a basic set of skills, more or less making them a jack of all trades. Contrary to what you may have learned in school, a jack of all trades is far more equipped to deal with life than a specialized master of only one. While not totally comprehensive , here is a list of 50 things everyone should know how to do. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. Read the rest of the article
101 Household Tips for Every Room in your Home | Glamumous! I love to discover tips which make housework easier! From time-saving tricks to finding new and ingenious uses for old things, the Internet provides a wealth of information and advice. In this post I've collected 101 visual tips from all over the web to help you save time and money in every room of your home. About this post Most of these tips were found via Pinterest (which by the way is a great resource for discovering tips to help around the home!). What are your favourite household tips? Do you have any favourite tips from this list? You might also enjoy these posts...
Tutorial: Easy Tiny Envelopes Guest tutorial by Ruth Bleakley I discovered this envelope making method completely by accident when pulling soggy rain-soaked mail out of my leaky mailbox - I had a total *eureka* moment when the envelope I gingerly opened up completely unfolded at the seams revealing an envelope "template" perfectly. I've seen many envelope tutorials online, some offer downloadable templates, some show fancy paper folding techniques and some suggest specific measurements to create your own D.I.Y. envelopes. I'm going to show you how to replicate any interesting envelope that you might already have, no measuring involved! Click below for the how-to: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. Ruth Bleakley is a paper addict who probably became a bookbinder soley as an excuse to obtain more paper.
100 Ways to Repurpose Everything (Mega Roundup!) Think this title is a tall order? Well, you’re in for a post of epic eco-tastic proportions. So epic that you may need to give your computer or mobile device an extra moment to load all of our pretty pictures. Seeing as we love to repurpose just about anything under the sun, we’re celebrating Earth Day by serving up 100 of our favorite ways to upcycle, reuse, and transform everyday materials into creative new things to wear, hang on the wall, and give to friends. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. 51. 52. 53. 54. 55. 56. 57. 58. 59. 60. 61.
Sustainable and Green Custom Packaging | Custom Packaging Solutions | Howard Packaging Ensure that Your Business Offers Environmentally Friendly, Sustainable Packaging Options At Howard Packaging, wherever possible, we try and provide our customers with sustainably produced, environmentally friendly packaging products. Whether it’s recycled paper shopping bags, merchandise bags, SOS bags, tissue or gift boxes our products help to ‘close the loop’--- recycled products that can be easily recycled. Additionally, many of our factories have taken it upon themselves to institute sustainable manufacturing processes that help reduce their carbon footprint. Contact us today for a Free Sample kit and Free Catalog! Howard Packaging’s Definition of Sustainable Packaging Products made from significant amounts of recycled material with high percentages of post consumer recycled content that can be recycled in most community curbside recycling programs are a sustainable, ‘closed loop’ packaging product. How Our Products Fit into Our Sustainable Packaging Definition
How to Put Green Packaging into Normal Life | Industrial Goods Marketing - Definition of Industrial Goods Marketing In actual operation of food green packaging design, designers will generally take into account whether packaging materials will cause some of the environmental and human health hazards, but little attention they will pay to potential environmental and human health hazards from ink in the process of packaging printing. The green packaging such as eco friendly cosmetic packaging, often called the environmental friendly packaging, refers to the package which is harmless to the ecological environment and human health, can be reused and regenerated, and conforms to the sustainable development policy. Its concept has two meanings, one is to protect the environment, the other is to save resources, and neither can exist effectively without the other. Then how to put the theory into practice? 1.usage of paper material. 2.Reusage of reproducible packaging materials. 3.Edible packaging material. 4.Biodegradable material. This article comes from: