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The Green Minute: Environmental Work Group Tips for Cleaners

The Green Minute: Environmental Work Group Tips for Cleaners

Last week’s Green Minute featuring Laura Turner Seydel, board member of Environmental Working Group, discussing water filters was received enthusiastically by readers of The Green Register. Back by popular demand this week,…

The Green Minute: Preparing for Earth Hour

The Green Minute: Preparing for Earth Hour

So, you have decided to participate at home in Earth Hour 2013 on March 23rd, at 8:30pm. For today’s Green Minute, here are some helpful green tips by Squidoo’s Mortira…

The Green Minute: Environmental Working Group’s Water Filter Advice

The Green Minute: Environmental Working Group’s Water Filter Advice

One of the leading environmental groups when it comes to providing eco-friendly and healthy living tips is the Environmental Working Group. In the video below, Eco-living expert Laura Turner Seydel…

The Green Minute: Dishwasher vs. Handwashing Dishes

The Green Minute: Dishwasher vs. Handwashing Dishes

For today’s Green Minute, the age old debate… Which is greener – using a dishwasher or washing dishes by hand? According to a recent study done by the University of Bonn in…

The Green Minute: Stop Flushing Money Down the Drain

The Green Minute: Stop Flushing Money Down the Drain

For today’s Green Minute, we feature a special colorful infographic by a United Kingdom bath fixture company called Bathshop321 that drives home the reasons to take water efficiency seriously. For example…

The Green Minute: Hiking the Appalachian Trail and Your Local Trail

The Green Minute: Hiking the Appalachian Trail and Your Local Trail

If you live in the Eastern United States, one item that’s on every nature lover’s bucket-list is hiking at least a portion of the Appalachian Trail (in the West it…

The Green Minute: What Goes Up Must Come Down – Balloon Pollution

The Green Minute: What Goes Up Must Come Down – Balloon Pollution

A couple of weeks ago, while driving to church on a Sunday morning, my wife and nine-year-old daughter saw a cluster of 5-6 balloons floating toward downtown Birmingham, Alabama, our…

The Green Minute: NPR’s Car Talk Gives Some Green Advice

The Green Minute:  NPR’s Car Talk Gives Some Green Advice

For today’s Green Minute, a couple of green suggestions from National Public Radio’s Car Talk -Tom and Ray or for loyal listeners, “Click and Clack,” the Tappet Brothers. As a…

The Green Minute: A Room With A View? Energy Efficient Windows

The Green Minute: A Room With A View? Energy Efficient Windows

For this week’s Green Minute, The Green Register is running a series of brief videos by the Alliance to Save Energy (ASE) tackling unique everyday energy efficient topics. Today’s Green Minute – Energy Efficient Windows.…

The Green Minute: Cooking Your Food Without Wasting Energy

The Green Minute: Cooking Your Food Without Wasting Energy

For this week’s Green Minute, The Green Register is running a series of brief videos by the Alliance to Save Energy (ASE) tackling unique everyday energy efficient topics. Today’s Green Minute – Living Efficiently: Energy Efficient…