6 Easy Ways to Have a Green Diva Kitchen

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Morning shows are fun, but they are kind of rough on a Monday morning! I have a new respect for all those morning show professionals who do it 5 days a week! We had a great time with Ebru Today talking about getting greener in the kitchen. I kept my tips to things that were [...]

Hardly a housewife: When your ceiling sags

Hand-hewn beams from old barns in PA

There’s nothing like really looking under the hood to make you think “charming” is a realtor’s secret code for: run for the hills! I can deal with horse-hair insulation and bumpy plaster. But when we decided to peek up into the ceiling to check out the hand-hewn beams above, we were in for a real surprise.

Green Divas Radio Show Links & Resources for the 9.17.11 Show

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Here are a few of the links that were relevant to the 9.17.11 show GREEN DIVA LINKS The Green Divas on Facebook  The Green Divas on iTunes The Green Divas on WMTR GREEN DIVA CORRESPONDENT: Kimberly Phipps-Nichol – Reno, NV: Kimberly’s company Blue Water Studio was voted Best of Green Consultant by the Reno News and Reviews. [...]

Green Divas Radio Show Links & Resources for the 7.16.11 Show

Here are a few of the links that were relevant to the 7.16.11 show! GREEN DIVA LINKS The Green Divas on Facebook The Green Divas on iTunes The Green  Divas on WMTR  GREEN DIVA REPORTS – Green Diva Heather Eves, DC Area Bike Share in Washington DC - Capital Bike Share CONSCIOUS CARNIVORE SEGMENT WITH THEO WEENING [...]

Got Fruit Flies? Get Terro.

So we come home from summer vacation to a kitchen full of fruit flies. I thought they would just go away in a few days, but as we filled the veggie and fruit basket on the counter with our farm stand purchases,  they just multiplied!  Clamoring on the cabinet doors and landing on every bit [...]

Raising Kids Healthy and Green with Holistic Moms

Green Diva Jen is also a holistic mom and one of the early members and founders of our local chapter of the Holistic Moms Network. We have definitely found that conscious moms who are concerned about natural health and wellness for their children and families, tend to be green moms and be more willing to [...]

Kennedy Green House Author, Robin Wilson

I’ve dreamed about renovating a house like this . . . using sustainable, recycled, non-toxic materials and practices. Of course, it should be in the Hamptons and it should’ve been a fairly cool house to start with . . . Robin Wilson, a nationally recognized eco-friendly and healthy home interior designer, has recently finished a [...]

Green Cleaning Maid Easy AND Eco

  A couple of good reasons to switch to an eco-friendly, green cleaning service. Conventional cleaning practices utilize . . . 8 billion pounds of chemicals that are hazardous to your health and to the environment 4.5 billion pounds of janitorial paper products, consuming tens of millions of trees 1 billion pounds of tools and [...]

Easy Sustainable Style with Way Basics

We had a chance to put together a Way Basics shelf recently. It really was as easy as they represented – at least it was for Woody the wonder dog and my two daughters Mary and Jessie. I read about Way Basics and was intrigued. I needed some simple book shelves and figured I’d just [...]

Standards for Eco-Stuff

As I review more and more ‘green’ products these days, I’m kind of baffled that there isn’t more of a standardized rating system. I googled ‘green product standards’ and I found the Green Seal of course, which is great for paper products and cleaners.  The EPA even has a database for information on environmental products and [...]