Shoo fly: Rid your house of flies naturally

Aaah the housefly. They seem to be more prevalent that instance of year for me. It could be considering we keep the doors open a little too expanded when playing in the yard. Or perhaps it’s that we are more prone to going away for a couple of days at a instance, leaving the flies to infest as they please. Having the cat box right next to the door does not help. Whatever the reason, I consulted the Web for ways to repel these nasty creatures.

The best ways to keep flies from infesting you…

An alternative to plastic baggies for lunches

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With school starting back up I am guessing you are packing a few more lunches than you were at that moment last month, well, whether you have kids at least. When packing a lunch for school, work, or even a picnic or outing with little ones how can you avoid using all those little plastic baggies?

Well, you can pack things in reusable containers. I tried that for awhile and ran in to a few problems.

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Where to recycle that old phone book

We’ve talked about signing up to not receive phone books and statistics showing that public actually still use them but what can you do with the stack you have lying around at home?

Yellow Pages and Keep America Beautiful have teamed up to offer phone book recycling in some areas. Just visit yellowpages.com, enter your zip cipher and find the nearest Keep America Beautiful affiliate to recycle your phone book.

If there is no one in your area who recycles the books, how about covering t…

Reduce the ability used by all your gadgets

If your house is anything like mine you have a lot of electronics plugged in to the wall. I’m certain by now you’ve heard about phantom capability loads and how your TV could be sucking up electricity even when it is turned off. whether that’s the case, what can you do to stop that energy consumption?

Kelli B. Grant gives ers four ways to reduce the capability consumption of your gadgets. Wouldn’t you rather give up that big electric bill than all your cool gadgets? I thought so.

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New software customizes your energy conservation

There have been many attempts to convince the average person that their energy consumption might be out of control, but the fact is, unless they see precisely how they’re spending their money categorically, it won’t sink in. Enter startup software company Greenbox, who hopes to corner the market on utility company software reporting. Created by the same guys who brought us the Flash application, they’ve aly scored a pilot deal with Oklahoma Gas and Electric and hope to get the ball rolling o…

The benefits of cork flooring

Before you turn to vinyl, laminate or even tile for your new floor, take a look at cork. It is renewable, appealing and easy to care for.

Cork is most often harvested from the bark of the Cork Oak. Unlike wood flooring, the entire tree is not cut down, only the outside is removed. The tree lives to grow more bark for a later harvest. Flooring is made from the excess bark once the cork for wine bottles is removed (priorities!). The pieces are ground up molded and glued back together. Cork …

Could that freaky air freshener really be eco-friendly?

Looking for an air-freshener that leaves your house with a zesty, natural scent and doesn’t trigger mass extinctions with its toxic contents? Well, some wacky innovators in Japan have figured out how to bring you a grapefruit-scented air freshener that’s so weird that it’s hard to believe that it’s not restricted handedly eating the ozone layer. Somehow, it’s supposedly environmentally friendly.

whether you have misgivings about introducing a chemical snowstorm into your indoor atmosphere, I’…

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