Show of hands.  How many of you actively participate in recycling endeavors in your community?  You schlep around your empty cans, jugs, and bottles.  You pile them up with your used papers, then sort them all into bins so some poor schmoe down at the recycling center doesn’t have to.  All so your city can [...]

Saving money isn’t the only thing out there if you want to become wealthy.  All it does is reduce the amount of money you spend.  You’ve still go to find ways to make more money through a better paying job, passive income, or a second job.  But, it’s still an important part of a well-rounded [...]

Everybody knows it’s great to go green, but have you ever considered why? Here’s some advice for homeowners on how greening their homes can lead to a higher quality of life. 1. Homeowners with greener homes pay less for water and electricity each month. If you’re one of the green-savvy homeowners who have installed solar [...]

After Andrea’s wonderful post on Go Green Method to Save Money: eBooks, and the ensuing conversation that started in the comments, I though it might be nice to share my story in regards to ebooks and ereaders. Where it begins. I’ve been a reader for as long as I can remember.  Some of my earliest [...]

The following is a guest post by Andrea from Nickel By Nickel. This article is part of the Yakezie blog swap #10 and the topic for this blog swap is The Best Go Green Method to Save Money. I’m sure you’ve all read the posts on laundry detergent, compost piles, insulation, rain-barrels and gardening and [...]

Typically, we hear about how much oil we use and turn into plastics.  When you think about it, it does make some sense that you could then turn plastics back into oil.  And you can! Watch this: Of course, the first thing that comes to mind after watching that is, “Why can’t they do that [...]

In today’s economy, with today’s prices, coins have become nearly worthless.  We all know that the penny costs more to manufacture than it is “worth”.  When was the last time you paid for anything with a few pennies?  Or with a few nickels?  Heck, even paying for anything with a few quarters is becoming a [...]

The green industry is great for the planet, but it’s still an industry, and some argue an elitist one.  Switching to hybrids and shopping solely from Whole Foods are neither frugal nor often green options (if you’ve read The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan, you’ll know that Big Organic is a lie). Concentrating wholly on [...]

Well, it’s more like Earth Week at Amazon.  They opened it up today and it’s pretty nice, if you’re trying to do as much as you can to go green.  They’ve got some links on different things that you can do to go green and have a smaller footprint.  They’re not essays, but you might [...]