For anyone who has children or hunters or dogs or anyone who even steps outside
this summer!!

A pediatrician said she believes this is the best way to remove a tick from the body.

This is great, because it works in those places where it’s sometimes difficult to
get to with tweezers:  between the toes, in the middle of a head full of dark hair, (more…)

Standard home construction is extremely wasteful, 30-40% of the materials end up in
landfills. And 30-40% of landfills are construction waste. On the other hand,
pre-fabricated home construction on average have only 2% construction waste.

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Setting your refrigerator to 38-42 degrees will make it run 25% more efficiently. (more…)

New products are hitting the marketplace quickly from big corporations trying to
go green!

Arm & Hammer Essentials is an environmentally friendly and safe multi-surface cleaner
created from renewable plant-based cleaning agents derived from coconuts and palm
kernel oil. It delivers outstanding results with no harsh chemical fumes, according
to the company. (more…)

On May 22, I wrote about getting the 350 Challenge badge and placing it on your site
to fight climate change.  Well, Forced Green received it’s certificate for offsets.

The challenge was to get 350 participants and they have reached over 400.  They have
decided to keep the registration open so that other bloggers, like you, can join up
and help fight climate change.  If you have not done so yet, go over to
http://350.brighterplanet.com and get your badge!

I had a comment asking how to tell if your dishwashing liquid is petroleum-based.
Well, good question, since the major brands don’t list the ingredients on the
bottles. What the bottles are quick to say is no phosphates and biodegradable
anionic surfactants (whew! That twisted my tongue just typing it). You’re lulled
into thinking all’s right with the major brands world until you realize what they (more…)

In the desert southwest, millions of gallons of brackish, unusable water lies
deep down under the parched earth. The by-product of decades of oil and natural
gas extraction in the area. The water is loaded with high chlorides and sodium, it’s
extremely dirty and volatile. On average, oil wells will produce nine times as much
dirty water as the oil they extract and in the U.S. alone there is over 18 billion
barrels of this polluted water. Too costly to treat the water, it was just pumped
back underground.

But, in this arrid land of the Navajo, times are changing. A company called Altela,
devised a innovative system to purify industrial polluted water utilizing a natural
process of desalination that’s been around for thousands of years, dating back to the
Egyptians. The process is called thermal distillation. By evaporating the water and
then recondensing it. (more…)

As promised, for those of you who do not get the Planet Green channel:

Two episodes were shown:

The first – “The Tornado”

On May 4, 2007 the town was hit by an F5 tornado, 10 people were killed in this town
of 1500. The entire infrastructure was annihilated and most of the residents left
homeless. A town that before the tornado, faced the very real possibility of
disappearing into the pages of history, as have many small agricultural based towns
in America. So why build a town back exactly the way it was if it’s future outlook is
dismal. The community decides to make it’s mark by rebuilding as energy efficient and
as green as possible. This was to be a daunting task especially monetarily as many
of the residents were under-insured if insured at all. (more…)