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Reduce Reduce Reduce

Toronto is now in the 16th day of a municipal workers’ strike. For the average home owner the biggest impact is that they now have to take their own garbage to a temporary dump. As the garbage piles up and tempers flare I can’t help but wonder where did all this garbage come from? How [...]

Tree Houses for the Child In You

Inside every adult lurks the child who always wanted their own tree house. If you were lucky enough to have had a tree house growing up, you probably have wonderful memories of it. I remember reading a few years ago that designer tree houses were all the rage. Adults were spending hundreds of thousands of [...]

Earth Day 2009

Today is the 39th Earth Day. It was started in the United States in 1970 as an environmental awareness event with 20 million people participating. In 2009 it is projected that over 1 billion men, women and children in 174 countries around the world will be involved in earth day activities. People will have the [...]

Are You Being Greenwashed?

“Green-wash (green’wash’, -wôsh’) – verb: the act of misleading consumers regarding the environmental practices of a company or the environmental benefits of a product or service.” The number of green products in the market is increasing exponentially. It seems that every business is claiming to be green. But are they? Or are we all being [...]

Are Teenagers Greener?

My 18 year old son is constantly telling me that he is going to live in a self-sustaining house. I think it is a wonderful idea, we should all live in self-sustaining houses, but find it quite ironic. He still leaves all the lights on when he leaves a room. There is a big disconnect [...]

Green EcoLiving

At Green EcoLiving our aim is to help you green your life. We can’t escape it . We must change if the planet is to survive.  Although the prospect of going green may at first seem overwhelming it is not an all or nothing decision. For most it is a gradual evolution brought on by [...]