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Going green starts at home, and gardening can be a great way to be a bit more sustainable, help the environment but also grow your own beautiful flowers or fresh vegetables. From guerrilla gardening to great plant stories and planting tips and tricks, here are some ways to make your home a more amazing and eco-friendly place.

Brilliant and Bizarre Off-the-Grid Green Designs and Technologies

As shown by these 15 gadgets, clothing items, homes and even entire towns, going off-grid can be stylish and luxurious.

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8 Steps To a More Eco-Friendly Kitchen

Left unchecked, kitchens can become energy hogs that sabotage our efforts to be green! Here are 8 ways to transform any kitchen into a green kitchen.

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Clever Composting Tips for Urban Dwellers

Composting tips and how to compost in an apartment, urban dwelling or city setting. Save money by gardening, composting, growing your own food.

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8 Eco-Friendly Examples of Great Green Decor

Here are 8 great and eco-friendly decor choices that are sure to make any home more inviting and comfortable!

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12 Cleverly Sustainable Tableware Designs

12 examples of clever, stylish sustainable tableware designs including edible utensils and beer bottle serving spoons.

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Easy to Grow Urban Herbs and Vegetables

Easy to Grow Herbs and Vegetables to Save Money on Groceries that can be grown in your apartment, porch, kitchen or dorm. Easy urban gardening tips.

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Earth Architecture: 15 Mud & Dirt Buildings

Incredible things can be made of dirt, as shown by these 15 examples of earthen architecture including adobe pueblos, hobbit holes and modern marvels.

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Strangely Stylish Sustainable Furniture Designs

Furniture designers have gotten incredibly creative when it comes to sustainable materials and concepts, to the point of the bizarre in some cases.

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15 Funny & Literal Green Gift Ideas

From Green Eggs and Ham and the Giant Green Egg to Al Green and Soylent Green here are some quirky alternatives for greening your holiday gift shopping.

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Reusable Alternative Christmas Tree Designs

There are plenty of alternative options that are cheaper, reusable, and often much cooler than the traditional Christmas tree and some amazing ornaments to go with them.

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10 Creative Budget Green Holiday Gifts

Show your friends how great it is to be green with these funky and affordable eco-friendly gifts.

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15 Amazing Mazes and Creative Labrynths

A guide to mazes and labyrinths from around the world including chartres mazes, corn field mazes, brick mazes, stone labyrinths and the oldest, largest mazes.

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15 Delicious Vegetarian Thanksgiving Recipes

These vegetarian and vegan Thanksgiving recipes are so good you'll have your friends eating off your plate.

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77 Delicious Eco-Friendly Meals and Recipes

Whether you are a vegan, vegetarian or even a meat-eater here are some essential (and relatively easy) meals and recipes to green your eating habits on a regular basis.

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Eco-friendly Liquor and Green Cocktail Recipes

organic liquor, organic cocktail, eco-friendly alcohol and green drink ideas

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