There are countless ways to renovate you home. Many of us would love to have a wonderful patio in the back yard, or possibly a large sun room to turn into your own private rainforest! Green and eco friendly home renovation ideas are a great way to spruce up your living quarters and outdoor areas and gardens. Here are a few home renovation ideas that you may wish to think about if you are planning some remodeling around you home.
1. Install rain collecting rain barrels …

Heating Your Home With a Wood Stove
Heating a house with wood, partly or totally, is environmentally and economically beneficial. Wood is a renewable fuel source and if harvested responsibly is a wise alternative to natural gas, oil, propane and other fossil fuels. If you do some searching you can even find free wood sources in your area like tree removal services. Burning wood also creates a nice ambience, that is soothing in your home.
A wood stove is the most popular, efficient and economical wood heating option. An efficient wood stove …

Shedding Some Light on LED Christmas Lights
Most of the Christmas lights on the market now are LED. This is a great thing because they use as much as 90% less energy than conventional incandescent light strings. This alone should be enough reason for people to want to switch.
LED Christmas Lights
LED light strings come in the traditional Christmas colors, and range in price quite a bit. Some people do not like the colors of the LED lights, but personally I think the colors are richer, and more vibrant. Being a newer …

1. Solar powered LED christmas lights. These lights are fully self sustaining, and come on automatically when it gets dark. They have a solar panel and rechargeable batteries, with various sizes of light strings. They range from $20 to $60 depending on the size of the light string.
2. Use a smaller indoor live tree to decorate. Don’t buy a cut tree or a fake plastic tree when you can just go out to the local nursery and buy a live potted evergreen. It …

I thought it might be a neat idea to begin having the friendly green bloggers of the interweb to come together and share various thoughts and ideas about green lifestyles and beyond. This will become a monthly event, and you don’t necessarily need to be a ‘blogger’ to get involved. Just keep an eye on the right hand side of GreenHomeHints.com and watch the clock. That way you’ll know how many days you have to send in your tips!!
So, the first question asked of green bloggers was …

If you’re about to remodel your bathroom, or even if you don’t want to remodel but aren’t happy with your current shower, consider purchasing an electric showers. With the entire world realizing the importance of water conservation, using less energy and making green choices, an electric shower is a wonderful way to get started down an environmentally friendly path. And electric showers aren’t just energy-savers, they’ll benefit you in other ways, too.
An electric shower is a great way to make sure you can always take a hot shower, day or …

This is a guest post from Dan Harrison. Dan is an eco friendly minded person, and he sent us these great tips for easily becoming eco friendly.
Conserve Fuel When Driving To substantially conserve fuel when driving, take your foot off
the accelerator when you’re about to stop. Don’t acceleration to the
place you’re about to stop at, as that will use extra fuel.
Clean Clogged Drains Pour a cup of baking powder down clogged drains pipes, followed by
a cup of vinegar and let it fizz and bubble for about fifteen minutes.
Then wash …

The Ontario Ministry of Environment has launched a new website to help people green up their lives a little. Tips can be found for those who own a home, rent an apartment, or live in a townhouse. This is nice, considering most green tips really involve home owners, leaving those who rent or lease in the dark as to what they can do to reduce their carbon footprint. Those who lease or rent hardly have any way of changing the bigger inefficiencies in their livingspace such as …