Tag: Cleaning - Page 5
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Does Dioxane Blow the Lid off Ecover's Green Cover?
Looking beyond the products' labeling and phosphate-freeness, the Organic Consumer's Association
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Most Huggable: Good Clean Fun, The Great Corn Debate, A Paper-Free Zine + More
Score a bag of clean, green goodies.
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Survey: Do You Clean Green?
In many nations, Good Friday is a major holiday. Where this writer lives, everything is closed shut like Christmas, and spring cleaning with environmentally friendly products has commenced. Click Here for PollOnline Surveys | Web Poll | Email
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Quote of the Day: Method Co-Founder Adam Lowry, on Green Style
What the style element does is it creates mass market relevance for a green product. And I'm not just talking about Method right now, although that is very much our strategy. We're not the first company to think cleaners should be green, but we are
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Mobile Phone Messaging For Tidy Toilets
The SMS (short message service) is an institution in Scandinavia, and its use is saving time and paper in a number of applications - the Vasttrafik transit system in Sweden lets tram and bus travelers send an SMS (the ticket fee appears on the phone
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How to Go Green: In the Kitchen
The eco-friendly kitchen begins with eating green, but it doesn't end there. Energy-efficient food preparation and cleaning habits, using equipment made from sustainable materials, and dodging toxic chemicals are also important if you want to have a
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Most Huggable: Hard Happy Meal Facts, The Enemy of Nature, Green Valentine's + More
Learn what's really in your kids' Happy Meal.
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TH Citizen Profile: Mercy Hernandez, Irma Gomez, and Maria Paez-Garcia (AKA: The Edge)
Separately, they are Mercy Hernandez, Irma Gomez and Maria Paez-Garcia; together, they are "The Edge," an environmental education group in South Florida bringing the good green message to young TreeHuggers between the ages of 2 and 5.
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Most Huggable: Recycling Your TV, LED Christmas Lights, Eco-Friendly Stain Removal + More
Do you know where your old TV’s will end up? Tell TV manufacturers you want them to take it back and insure it'll get recycled properly with this new initiative.
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Quote of the Day: Jill Cooper on One-Use Washing
Photo credit: anniebee A friend of my daughter’s was complaining about how many loads of wash she had to do every day for her small family. When my daughter suggested that she have her family wear the same pair of jeans a second time if they were
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The TH Interview: Annie B. Bond, Author and Healthy Living Expert
Few people know more about keeping your home clean and green than Annie B. Bond, author of several bestselling books on the subject—including Clean and Green, The Green Kitchen Handbook, Better Basics for the Home, and Home Enlightenment—and executive
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Your Government at Work, Protecting Your Lungs
We noted earlier how the US Department of Agriculture waited 18 days before it got around to recalling 21 million pounds of meat tainted with e Coli bacteria. They can pass the prize for procrastination over to the Consumer Product Safety Commission,
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TH Forums Highlights: Packing Peanuts, Peak Oil + More
1) Forums user charityjunebug has a bone to pick with method: "So I get my package and guess what???
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How to Hack Your Swiffer
We're still not sure what Gianfranco Zaccai, CEO of the design consultancy that brought us the Swiffer, was smoking when he called P&G;'s best-selling (and admittedly revolutionary) cleaning system "eco-friendly." We're stumped: Was Zaccai referring to
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Hang It Out to Dry on the Alberto Clothesline
We don't get to say this kind of thing very often, but find it particularly apropos: that is one sexy clothesline/drying rack. As we noted awhile back, 75% of the energy consumption of apparel comes from laundering (rather than production or
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62 Uses for Vinegar
Vinegar is a pretty versatile substance. Basically just acetic acid, it can be used to replace many commercial cleaning products which can be harmful to the environment. Our guide to greening your cleaning says, "most of the conventional cleaning
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Survey: How Clean is Clean?
Many people now are obsessed with cleanliness, possibly to a fault; some use antibiotic cleansers full of gender bender chemicals John discussed earlier; others agree with commenter Rob on our post on Triclosan: Too much of a sterile environment is a bad
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"Go naked," says Method
Already known for their green(er) stuff, here's a line that goes a bit farther: go naked
