When it comes to living green, a major component is your actual house or apartment. Making sure your dwelling is green includes the materials used to build your home, (a long story in itself) and another issue is home size. When it comes to green homes, smaller is better if you’d like to lower your footprint. The last component of green housing is the community you live in.

Community and where you live in said community goes a long way toward being or not being green. If your home is green, but in a terribly un-green community or you live so …read more

We all know that green spaces benefit the planet, but now new research shows that green spaces are also beneficial for kids health.

Canadian researchers recently found that girls who live near green spaces are twice as likely to walk to school as girls who don’t live near green spaces and living near a green space increases the likelihood that a young boy will walk for leisure by as much as 60%.
This study was interesting because most research like this focuses on simply having green spaces in the area. This study however, noted that the closer in proximity to green spaces …read more