During the summer many people paint, or repaint their house and or walls. If you just did this you may have lots of leftover paints to deal with. The first thing to do is NOT toss paints down the drain in your home or down the sewer drains outside.

Paint poured into your drains or dumped outside will leach into streams, groundwater supplies and soil due to runoff and chemicals. Your kids or animals may find paint dumped outside, mess in it, and get sick. Paint tossed into the trash is no good either because it’ll end up in a landfill …read more

Earth Day is coming up on April 22nd, and what better way to honor this event than with a redo of your cleaning products? There are some great products on the market today that not only clean your home but are friendly to the environment also.

The average American home has 63 hazardous chemicals. This year, in honor of Earth Day, Seventh Generation invites Blisstree readers to take a walk on the green side of life and consider using natural ingredient based cleaners.
Seventh Generation will be giving two lucky Blisstree winners an “under the sink makeover” to get a clean …read more

At a certain point in your road less traveled, the concept of a life list really starts to become not only a weightier proposition, but a neccessary one.
I have been thinking about this a lot, and while bungee-jumping is not on my list, here are a few things that are:
Get outside my comfort zone — as in, new friends, a more ambitious business sensibility — in other words life beyond my neighborhood.
Continue to educate myself — that could mean a new language, a course on (yipes) how to properly use Excel or maybe some cooking classes.
But here is …read more