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Steps to a Green Wedding
  If you're planning a green wedding which you want to be special and memorable, you may have a lot of things on your mind and a lot of tasks to do on your list.
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How to Go Green with Weddings
  With much talk and debate over certain issues concerning environmental impacts like global warming and climate change, more people are looking for ways to help the environment. These days, people are even opting for green weddings.
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Green Utilities
  EnviroCitizen.org has found that green energy is good for a number of reasons. However, even though green utilities have proven to be fruitful and beneficial, many power and utilities companies still express their concerns that emerging technologies that provide green utilities are costly and expensive.
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Green Long Distance Carriers
  Choosing a company that offers green long distance services can provide a lot of different benefits. EnviroCitizen.org has found that some companies will even take a portion of their profits and donate it to organizations and movements that support environmental work.
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Green Landline Long Distance
  Since many businesses have become aware of the importance of being green, several green long distance companies have also come into the environmentally-friendly picture.
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Making Green International Long Distance Calls through VoIP
  Long-distance phone services are very important to people with relatives abroad or for those with businesses that require communication through long distance calls. If that is the case, then you might think that it's impossible to go green with this service.
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Green Funeral Materials for a Green Funeral
  Environmentally-friendly or green funerals are increasing in popularity. Funerals are never a happy occasion. With the loss, planning a funeral, making decisions and spending large amounts of money, the entire experience is exhausting.
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What are Green Eco-funerals?
  EnviroCitizen.org believes that few would argue with the fact that the earth's natural resources are becoming limited. For that reason alone, it is very important to preserve and protect what nature has given us.
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A Chemical-Free Dry Cleaner
Conventional dry cleaning services are not eco-friendly. They use petroleum-based chemicals to clean your clothes and those chemicals end up on and in your body and in the environment.
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How EVO can Help You to Do Everything in a Green Way
EVO is an online comparison shopping engine that EnviroCitizen.org discovered goes beyond the typical parameters of comparing prices and brands. Instead, EVO sets out to help consumers determine how green their purchases really are.
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How to Make Your Night Out as Eco-Friendly as Possible
If you're heading out on the town to enjoy an evening with friends, family or your spouse (with or without your children), EnviroCitizen.org has found that there are many ways to make your evening eco-friendly. footprint.
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ThinkHost: Getting Your E-mail to be Green
If you're an environmentally-conscious consumer, you might want to look into switching your internet and e-mail service to ThinkHost. ThinkHost's e-mail service is free to end-users and is powered by 100% renewable energy! ThinkHost is fiercely committed to environmental sustainability.
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How to Get Rid of Junk Mail and Why
EnviroCitizen.org has discovered that a huge amount of household waste consists of unsolicited (junk) mail. Every year in the United States, 100 million trees are used to create junk mail. During the process of making trees become junk mail, 28 billion gallons of water is used annually.
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Looking at Labels: What Does it all Mean?
To put it simply, labels are confusing. Companies put things on labels for two reasons. The first reason is that they are legally required to reveal their ingredients. The second, and more important reason that companies label their products, is to try to get you to buy them.
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The Green Maid
The cool thing about being eco-friendly is that you can find (or create) a green alternative for just about everything out there. Since 2007, EnviroCitizen.org has discovered that the Green Maid has taken housecleaning to a whole new green level.
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Planting a Billion Trees: How You Can Help
The Atlantic Forest in the Amazon is in danger. It's currently 7% of its original size. In response to this environmental crisis, the Nature Conservancy set up their Plant a Billion Trees Campaign
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The EPA's EnviroMapper
Some environmentalists criticize the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for a variety of reasons. Critics suggest that the EPA is too caught up in the bureaucratic process and that the EPA is subject to political biases.
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Mothering Magazine: Helping You to Nurture Your Natural Family
If you're a parent or planning on having children, Mothering Magazine is the perfect blend of parenting advice and natural philosophies. Mothering Magazine was created in 1976 in an effort to provide tools for the natural family community.
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BackHome Magazine: Delivering D-I-Y Tips and Tricks to Live Green
BackHome Magazine is a great magazine that EnviroCitizen.org has discovered is changing the lives of its readers.
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Flowers Aren't Always Organic...How to Find an Organic Bouquet
Every year, Americans give billions of flowers as gifts. Bouquets are popular gifts for many holidays, including Valentine's Day, Mother's Day and birthdays. Flowers are great; they are beautiful, aromatic and welcoming.
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Nike's New Green Shoe
Many small businesses are adopting green practices, and to EnviroCitizen.org, that's good news! But all too often, big corporations do little in the way of going green. Nike, a famous, worldwide, gigantic corporation, hasn't always been known as a green business.
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Eco-Friendly Jewelry from Brilliant Earth
Brilliant Earth Jewelry is a great company. It all began in San Francisco, California, when a man wanted to propose to the love of his life. He couldn't find a reliable source that could guarantee a conflict-free diamond.
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Environmentally Friendly Funerals
Envirocitizen.org knows that organizing a funeral can be a very difficult time for everyone involved, which is why we have created some helpful tips to assist you in ensuring that the funeral you are coordinating is environmentally friendly. There are many different choices you can make to ensure that a funeral is environmentally friendly; choices such as the casket, the embalmment, tombstone or marker, etc.
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Environmental Wedding Favors
Did you know that the average newlyweds spent over and estimated $400 on favors alone for their wedding? If you are concerned with maintaining a sensible budget on wedding favors and would like to make sure that all aspects of your wedding are eco-friendly, Envirocitizen.org has some great suggestions for choosing fun, environmental wedding favors!
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Case for Green Long Distance
Envirocitizen.org feels very strongly about green long distance. There are many benefits to green long distance, such as the portion of profits which are donated towards supporting environmental work.
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Affordable Green long distance
Affordable green long distance is available in many places, but Envirocitizen.org believes that Earth Tones is one of the best. Earth Tones is the only provider that is completely non-profit, donating all of its profits to environmental organizations, and makes certain that all of their goods are recyclable. Earth Tones, a green long distance provider, goes above and beyond the efforts of your average green company. They are inspired to do this by their own desire to treat the environment well,
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Why Go Green for Funerals ?
EnviroCitizen.org has found that there are many enticing reasons to choose green funerals. Green funerals not only promote a healthy Earth, but allow the deceased to become one with the earth in a peaceful, harmonious way. Green cemeteries do not allow embalming, traditional caskets or vaults on their grounds, making the location completely natural. EnviroCitizen.org has taken the time to break down the effects of traditional funerals, green funerals and ways in which you can organize a green fu
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What Makes a Funeral Green?
The choices you make while planning a funeral greatly affect how green a funeral may or may not be. By maintaining an eco-conscious mindset, you can ensure that the funeral you are planning is not only a beautiful commemoration of the life of the deceased, but beneficial to the environment.
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What is Green Gas?
Within the past few years, we have seen a huge increase in alternative energy sources. Green gas is one of them! Green gas is the combination of ethanol with gas. This combination lowers the amount of pure petroleum gas consumed, burns clear and still provides optimum gas power. Most cars can run on a 10-90 ethanol mix. Flexible fuel cars can run on an 85-15 mixture which burns extremely clean and further reduces harmful pollution. Unfortunately, only one in 40 cars can run on this mix. Though e
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What is Green Electric ?
Green electric is simply power that is generated and derived through the use of green power. You can often select this form of green electrical energy with the simple check of a box on your energy bill! Before you switch over all of your energy choices to green electric, it is good to first understand what green power is.
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What is a Green Wedding ?
EnviroCitizen.org defines a green wedding as a wedding that is planned through positive environmental planning. Consumers are beginning to realize that traditional weddings can have a huge impact on the environment. Small details, such as the rings or invitations, can actually play a big role in the creation of huge amounts of waste! If you feel that a green wedding is the right decision, we suggest that you do a bit of research and try to make the best decisions for you and the Earth.
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Ten Tips to Green Funerals
Though funerals are a certainly a solemn occasion, it can often help to make them more positive by approaching them with a green mindset. Whether the deceased has planned to have a green funeral or you are able to make that decision on your own, there are many important components to take into consideration in order to make sure the entire funeral is eco-friendly.
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Sustainable Celebrations
EnviroCitizen.org is happy to share that any celebration you choose to organize can easily be made sustainable! With a little effort, research and dedication, you can have fun while supporting a healthy environment!
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Seed Wedding Favors
Wedding guest favors can average around $400 for average-size weddings. This is a large sum, especially considering that most traditional wedding favors consist of items such as bubbles, chocolates and candies. EnviroCitizen.org is pleased to report that there are other more unique, eco-friendly options! Many people who have green weddings either select local favors (local chocolates, wines, cheeses, etc), or they take the money set aside for wedding favors and donate it to an environmental char
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Prepaid Green Long Distance
Prepaid green long distance phone service is a wonderful and economical option in many ways. Not only will you no longer run the risk of going over on your bill (as you pay it all upfront), but you are also able to give back to the environment at the same time.
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Organic Weddings
Weddings are a memorable and special time for everyone involved. The union of two people and two families is certainly cause for a huge celebration—remaining memorable for generations to come. If you would like to create the perfect wedding, consider organizing an organic wedding !
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Organic Funerals
There are many ways to organize an organic funeral. With minimal changes, a funeral’s impact on the environment can be severely lessened. EnviroCitizen.org would like to present you with some alternatives to traditional funeral choices, allowing you to take part in an organic funeral that will have a positive (rather than negative) impact on the Earth.
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Making the Decision to Go Green for Funerals
Making decisions for any funeral can be difficult, however, the increased awareness regarding environmental issues has brought about an increase in green options for everything—including funerals. There are many green funeral and green burial options that will not take a toll on the environment and can be organized easily, without any additional stress in comparison to a traditional funeral or burial. EnviroCitizen.org encourages you to consider a green final resting spot, not only is it a tranq
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How to have a Green Wedding
The world is becoming more and more aware of green issues and initiatives. More and more individuals are actively and willingly choosing to live green lifestyles—that is a lifestyle that takes the earth and its future into consideration. The term “green” refers to eco-friendly or environmentally friendly characteristics. This can include the use of recycled, re-used or biodegradable goods, limit pollution, lessen or stop the use of non-renewable sources and more! There are many ways to incorpora
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Green Wedding Tips
These green wedding tips by EnviroCitizen.org will give you an overall idea of some of the things you might want to keep in mind to help ensure that your wedding is fabulous and green.
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