TreeHugger Picks: Going Green at Home
by Collin Dunn, Corvallis, OR, USA on 10.20.06

Donnachadh McCarthy, one of Britain's leading expert in green living, believes seven days is all it takes to "go green." Inspired by the inaugural How to Green Your Life column we ran yesterday, here are our picks for some ways to go green at home.
1) Check out twenty free ways to save energy in your home.
2) Make your own non-toxic bathtub cleaner.
3) Learn to avoid toxic chemicals that are already in your home.
4) To be sure it's green, make it yourself, with our easy homemade soap and easy homemade yogurt recipes.
5) Use your dishwasher wisely to save on water, energy and money.


















does anybody know where I can find info on the lighted tub pictured? the green one. Thanks. cmklein21@gmail.com
The lighted green tub (if i remember correctly) was one of the products in the "un-treehugger" lists. based on how much power is wasted and what it's made from.
So how it made it onto the treehugger picks is a little odd...
**Author's comments**
Andrew,
Thanks for your note, and keen eye -- you're right about the tub. In this case, I wanted a visual representation of "green" and "bathtub" (as in, "do this to make your tub greener" rather than "look at this goofy green tub") to accompany the "make your own non-toxic cleaner" story -- good pictures of baking soda and vinegar are hard to come by!
-CD
Out of curiousity, has Treehugger covered the British tv show that McCarthy was on, It's Not Easy Being Green? It was an awesome documentary show about a family and many of their friends who restored a huge old farmhouse and small farmland into a sustainable, mostly off-grid green home and teaching center. It starred one of the more entertaining guys from the Junkyard Wars (Scrapheap Challenge) show a few years ago, and they built most of the contraptions themselves (a waterwheel, Biodiesel distillery, solar heated greenhouse, etc.) and grew/raised most of their own food as well, but still loved their coffeemaker, and said that they weren't hippies!
There is supposed to be a second season next winter or spring I believe.