Tag: Green Communities

  • Skyline Farms…A Green Initiative Worth Supporting

    Jacqueline Spicer of The Ink Tank® in Toronto is a good friend. Her son Jake and his business partner have recently launched a new ‘green’ project called Skyline Farms. Like any new project, Skyline Farms was started on a shoestring, but it’s a great idea that deserves support. Skyline Farms is an environmentally and socially…

  • Composting: How to Do It and Why It Matters

    This is a guest blog from writer Chloe Trogden. Thanks Chloe Image by Chris Breikss via Flickr Every year, we generate about 250 million tons of trash in the United States, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That’s a lot of waste, and it has to go somewhere. A lot of the chemicals and other…

  • Composting: How to Do It and Why It Matters

    This is a guest blog from writer Chloe Trogden. Thanks Chloe Image by Chris Breikss via Flickr Every year, we generate about 250 million tons of trash in the United States, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. That’s a lot of waste, and it has to go somewhere. A lot of the chemicals and other…

  • Teaching Children About Renewable Energy Through Kits

    This is a guest post by Liz Nelson from WhiteFence.com. She is a freelance writer and blogger from Houston. Questions and comments can be sent to: liznelson17 @ gmail.com. While building your own solar array to provide enough power to your home to be 100-percent sustainable could cost tens of thousands of dollars, you don’t…

  • Our Standards.

    Depending on how many signups we have on our site, I usually sit down on Sunday morning and go through all the listing applicants, separate out the ones that do qualify for listing from those who don’t, assign categories and then post their listings on the site. As we have grown (about 550 listings), I…