Conventional laundry detergents and fabric softeners often contain dangerous chemicals that can be harmful to your health and the environment. These chemicals come in the form of fragrances and dyes that often attract us to the detergent in the first ...
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5 Reasons Your Antibacterial Soap Is Doing More Harm Than Good
Washing your hands is a good thing, this is true. However, we have become a culture that is so germaphobic that we may just be causing more harm than good. Everywhere you turn, you see antibacterial soaps, creams and wipes. ...
Read More »5 Easy Ways To Make Your Fire Burn Longer (And More Efficiently)
How do you keep your house warm during winter? If you are like me and millions of other Americans, you use wood. Figures in a recent Census showed that the number of homes heating with wood grew 34 percent between ...
Read More »4 Reasons Everyone Should Live In The Woods (At Least For A Little While)
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that ...
Read More »8 Steps To Downsizing And Getting Your Life Back
Most of us have stuff that we don’t particularly need but seem to like to keep around. Perhaps you are a collector of sorts and just enjoy a good bargain, or can’t resist an estate sale or yard sale. For ...
Read More »5 Edible Perennials You Can Plant This Fall — And Enjoy For Decades
While it may not seem like the best time to plant, fall is a really good season to get in some perennial flowers, herbs and yes … delicious and nutritious vegetables. It is a wonderful thing to know that you ...
Read More »7 Ways Electronics Quietly Harm Our Mental Health
We have come a long way since the first mass-produced telephones, radios and TVs drastically changed human communication. Nowadays, we have added smartphones, tablets, laptops and other electronics into the mix. They have revolutionized how we work, communicate and entertain ...
Read More »10 Steps To Surviving Days And Days In The Desert
The striking beauty of the desert draws hikers, bikers and recreational enthusiasts galore. While many enter this beautiful landscape prepared, many also go unprepared and sadly suffer the consequences. Spending the night in a treeless desert landscape with unlimited view ...
Read More »12 Items You Should Stockpile Other Than Food and Water
We live in very volatile times, times that are marked by increasingly horrific weather events, water scarcity, financial instability and in many cases, civil unrest. What does this mean for us? It means we need to live in a state ...
Read More »7 Self-Reliance Skills You’ll Need If ‘The System’ Collapses
We live in a society that has a well-oiled system in place to meet our various needs, be it providing the food we eat, the clothes we wear, or the house we live in. Can you imagine how helpless we ...
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