Riding around town on my bike, and also driving on the highways between cities, I’m constantly baffled at the number of vehicles I see with just one occupant in them.  Considering the cost of fuel, and the economic situation right now, you’d think people would be very interested in finding any way possible to cut costs.  Carpooling is one way to drastically cut your daily expenses, particularly if you are commuting 50 KM or more each day to get to and from work.  There is usually the ability to comfortably …

As annoying as they can be, slugs are actually a benefit in your garden as long as there is a balance between them and their predators.  They provide food for various beneficial insects such as beetles.  Birds, a welcome  visitor to any garden love to devour slugs.  Toads, frogs and even centipedes gobble up countless slugs in every garden, so its essential that whatever method you use to repel slugs from your plants doesn’t harm these other creatures that not only eat the slugs, but naturally take care of other …

Whats better than having a sunny patch of your property to use as a vegetable and herb garden?  Well, growing all of those wonderful, tasty treats without the use of nasty chemical pesticides and fertilizers of course!  Thats one of the big reasons that I tend to grow alot of my own veggies through the summer.  That, and also because most vegetables that you find in supermarkets are picked before they are ripe, and allowed to ripen either on the truck or on the shelf at the store.  They never …

Energy costs continue to rise, and summer time is no exception when it comes to wasted energy around the home.  Most households add an airconditioner to their electrical consumption around this time of year, which adds quite a bit more to your bill in the end.  The smart home owner will be looking for ways to offset the additional energy use, and one such way is to stop using your dryer and opt for using a clothesline or drying rack to dry your clothing outside in the fresh summer breeze!
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There’s been a trend over the last decade or so that is seeing people purchase more bottled water each and every year.  Its interesting really, because most people fail to actually read the lables in order to understand just where that water is coming from.   Some bottling companies, such as Nestle, are depleting groundwater sources in order to fill those bottles.  Other companies, such as Pepsi, under the guise of Aqua Fina are simply opening up the tap and filling plastic bottles with the same water that flows freely from …