Green Planet Living

Travelers are presented with many choices…including where to go, how to get there, where to stay, where to eat and what to do when you get there. Each of these choices has the potential to positively or negatively impact the environment and being aware of your choices may just make your trip more enjoyable and may even leave you with a greater sense of purpose and connectedness to other cultures.

Here are some great reasons to be conscious of your choices when choosing among the many travel options: Read the rest of this entry »

Composting has become big news in the last few years, as homeowners are discovering the delights of naturally disposing of household wastes in an eco-friendly manner. Not to mention…homeowners are getting loads of free high-quality fertilizer to improve their gardens and lawns.

Gardening experts agree that composting is arguably nature’s best way to improve your soils - instead of using toxic and expensive commercial fertilizers. The good news is that compositing is extremely EASY to do with just a few tools. You already have the raw materials in your yard to get started.

How Natural Compost Helps Your Soil

It is no secret that composting helps your soils by improving the structure, texture and aeration of the soil composition. Additionally, it helps your soil hold water - which is essential for your plants and grasses to have the time to soak up your waterings. This helps root development greatly. Read the rest of this entry »

While reading a recent article about some hikers that became lost in Alaska’s Denali National Park, I was amazed that a fading cell phone saved their life. Rescuers were able to locate them based on their weak cell phone signal.

In their case, they were lucky that the battery held out. I bet they were wishing that they had included a portable solar charger in their gear that day. With today’s vast array of electronic gadgets on our body at all times, more people are finding it helpful (and lifesaving) to add a tiny solar charger to their bag for just such occasions.

I remember many years ago thinking how cool portable solar chargers were and wanted to add one to my outdoor gear, in case my car battery died or I wanted to write an article on my laptop in the middle of nowhere (like a beach!). The were expensive, rigid and too bulky and heavy to add to my gear list. Read the rest of this entry »

It was not so long ago that solar powered lighting for pathways, gardens and general landscaping was quite a luxury for the average homeowner. You had to spend a lot of money for installation, an electrician, and watch your electrical bills climb.

Not so anymore with the proliferation of inexpensive and very attractive solar lighting sets and accessories. Now, you can light up the yard or that dark passageway at night with abandon (check those neighborhood covenants, though), without harming the planet or your electrical bill.

Today’s outdoor solar lighting marketplace offers an amazing array of options for your lighting needs, including solar pathway lighting, solar flood lights, motion-sensing solar security lights, and colorful solar globe lights. Some solar lights even have built-in bug zappers! (see picture) Read the rest of this entry »

Welcome fellow human who wants to help heal the wounds we have inflicted upon Planet Earth and set new patterns of living that will be beneficial for all to come. The time is certainly right to intensely focus on providing “Green” solutions to our lifestyles for the benefit of future generations.

By visiting this site, you are making the first critical step that we all must make to achieve a level of harmony with our environment…you are expressing an interest! So, congratulations to you…fellow human. Together, we will explore ideas, products and solutions for a better world. Many decades from now, we will be considered the “Positive Visionaries” who started the revolution for change to regain our natural planet.

This Site is a Beacon of Hope and Ideas - Not Doom and Gloom!

This site will NOT be a critical expose of all the wrongs we as humans have done, but a beacon of hope and expectation for a brighter and cleaner future. I am not one to dwell on the past, but prefer to design and offer solutions to our challenges. This is what GreenPlanetLiving.com is all about. Read the rest of this entry »