Green Apps

There was an article in CNN that featured “Green” iPhone Apps. It is pretty neat.

Get Green ($0.99): Provides you daily “green” tips.

A Real Tree ($0.99): Promises to plant a real tree when you buy this virtual tree app.

Find Green (Free): Allows you to search for environmentally friendly businesses in your area. You can also visit gengreenlife.com to search for environmentally friendly businesses in your area.

To read more about each app, including a list of pros and cons, click here or visit the links above.

Natural Home "Fresh Finds" Sweepstakes

Natural Home magazine is having a sweepstakes. One (1) winner will receive the following:

6 Kettle Cuisine Soup Boxes 1 Sunshine Burger Sampler Pack 1 18-spice Mountain Rose Herbs Epicurean Organics herb set 1 box JK Soul Salts Organic Herbal Dryer Sachets 1 Linda & Harriet 2010 Calendar 1 ChicoBag Sling rePETe messenger bag 1 LaundryTree Soapnut Starter Kit 1 gallon Vermont Natural Coatings PolyWhey Natural Floor Finish 1 gallon Farrow & Ball No-VOC Wall and Ceiling Primer 3 rolls Graham & Brown FSC-certified Wallpaper 1 Electrolux Ultrasilencer Green Vacuum

Click Here to Enter now. Contest ends on February 16, 2010.

The Herb Companion Sweepstakes

The Herb Companion is having a "List of Likes" sweepstakes. One (1) winner will receive a bunch of goodies, and ten (10) other winners will receive a "Making Herbs Simple" dvd by Bulk Herb store. The sweepstakes ends on January 12, 2010! You must be at least 18 years old to enter. Click here to enter.

Re-Useable Seedling Starter

Re-useable Seedling Starter for Less Than $6

I bought this re-useable seedling starter for less than $6 from my local garden center. It's working well. The tray is designed in a way to help keep the soil moist. I planted butter lettuce, swiss chard, tomatoes, peas, butternut squash, nasturtiums, and thyme seeds. As you can see my swiss chard is doing really well here. Today I transplanted almost all of my seedlings. I'm just wait for a few more to grow to 3 to 4 inches before attempting to transplant them.

Composting Education

This article talks about the global benefits of composting and also goes in depth on how to compost your organic waste.

"An astonishing 26 percent of the garbage we discard is organic waste, Ms. Lamb says — plant and food materials that could be kept out of landfills and worked back into the soil. I didn’t realize that organic waste decomposing in the sun is the No. 1 source of the greenhouse gas methane, which is 20 times more effective in trapping heat in the earth’s atmosphere than carbon dioxide. "

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