You can green your home office a little or a lot depending on your budget and how motivated you are. Here are some green office ideas…

Simple green office changes:

Buy only recycled paper for your printer and other paper needs.
Open the window – windows are actually extremely efficient tools for improving your indoor air quality. You should open them for a little bit each day, even in the winter.
Refit all office lighting with energy efficient light bulbs.
Make basic changes like recycling used docs, printing on both sides of the paper, and turning off all computers and lights when you leave the …read more

Email is a super small thing but something that you can green up in a big way.
Don’t print your own emails: This is a biggie. There’s almost no reason to print an email anymore – unless it’s say movie ticket confirmation. All that paper adds up quickly. If you must print, print on both sides of a recycled sheet of paper.
Add a message so that others also don’t print: Plenty of people have little notes at the bottom of their emails that say something along the lines of, “Please consider the environment before printing this email.” Which is a small …read more

Computers aren’t the greenest of products. They’re little (or big) energy hogs and most are made with plenty of non-green materials. If you’ve got a computer you can keep it greener by doing the following…

Buy a laptop vs. a desk top computer: Desk top computers use a lot more energy and materials in general than laptops.
Look for the energy star label: Various computers, printers, and other computer related office equipment now wear the Energy Star label so don’t buy one without it.
Buy small: Only buy as much computer as you need. The smaller the better when it comes to eco-friendliness.
Turn …read more

Still, I can’t stop thinking about it. Not since I saw it. I just keep thinking; add a toilet and solar cooker and you could move in.
The Nissan NV200:

Pop!

And inside – see you could live here.

So, this isn’t even a new car – I’m slower than slow about cars. Structures I get; cars, um, not so much. People are actually surprised when I can pump my own gas. (I grew up in Oregon). I really just like this car for the livability aspects. However, this is a cool green choice of an automobile, that much I do know. …read more