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Sustainable Living – Blog, Articles, & Tips

Explore how living lightly on the land connects our communities to the natural world that supports us. Let this page be your guide to the best advice on energy efficiency, solar power, wind energy, living off the grid, and more.

Small-Space Clutter Clean-Up Image

Small-Space Clutter Clean-Up

The $0 Home Makeover Image

The $0 Home Makeover

Charity Spotlight: Donation Town Image

Charity Spotlight: Donation Town

Rethinking Refrigeration: The Benefits of a Smaller Fridge Image

Rethinking Refrigeration: The Benefits of a Smaller Fridge

How to Speed up Your Home's Improvement Projects Image

How to Speed up Your Home's Improvement Projects

12 Quick Kitchen Updates to Make Before the Holidays Image

12 Quick Kitchen Updates to Make Before the Holidays

Small Homes Are Just the Right Size Image

Small Homes Are Just the Right Size

How Renewable Energy Helps Rural Communities Image

How Renewable Energy Helps Rural Communities

Use Fish for Natural Mosquito Control Image

Use Fish for Natural Mosquito Control

I Built My House for Extreme Weather Image

I Built My House for Extreme Weather

Green Bathroom Improvements for Your Home Image

Green Bathroom Improvements for Your Home

10 Clay Plaster Projects for Natural Homes Image

10 Clay Plaster Projects for Natural Homes

Atulya K. Bingham

Sit Back and Relax With These Beautifully Idyllic Porch Photos Image

Sit Back and Relax With These Beautifully Idyllic Porch Photos

Net Metering: a Key Policy that Helps You Balance your Solar-Electricity Use Image

Net Metering: a Key Policy that Helps You Balance your Solar-Electricity Use

Vikram Aggarwal

6 Tips for a Green Christmas Image

6 Tips for a Green Christmas

Jennifer Tuohy, Home Depot

All About Wood Bugs and Scribing Our First Logs Image

All About Wood Bugs and Scribing Our First Logs

Manuela And Frank Mueller

How to Make a Rag Rug Image

How to Make a Rag Rug

MOTHER EARTH NEWS Editors

Tiny Texas Houses from Salvaged Materials Image

Tiny Texas Houses from Salvaged Materials

Lloyd Kahn, Shelter Publications

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Host a Cookout with Eco-Friendly Party Supplies

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Eco Friendly and Affordable: It’s Happening

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