Green living today: $8 eggs, detoxing your home and more

Green living articles in the news

A dozen eggs for $8? Michael Pollan explains the math of buying local (Wall Street Journal): "Eight dollars for a dozen eggs sounds outrageous, but when you think that you can make a delicious meal from two eggs, that's $1.50. It's really not that much when we think of how we waste money in our lives."

20 ways to detox your home (Huffington Post):  "Taking more care to reduce our exposure to both internal and external toxins, by detoxing our bodies and our living space allows the body's own detoxification to function more efficiently. This strengthens our resilience to the daily onslaught of factors impacting our health."

Families find simple ways to go green (Bucyrus Telegraph Forum): "One of the simplest places to start making changes is at home.  Contact your gas or electric company to see if it offers a home energy auditing service...the audit will identify ways to make your house or apartment more energy efficient."

Xeriscaping: gardening without a sprinkler (Wall Street Journal): "Water savings from xeriscaping can be immense. On average, landscape watering accounts for between 40% and 70% of residential water use, according to the Water Research Foundation, of Denver. A 2005 report by the Southern Nevada Water Authority on the five-year landscape-water use of more than 700 homeowners found those who converted to xeriscapes from grass turf reduced their annual household water use by 30% on average."

College students spread the green gospel on cross-country bus trip (Seattle Times): "The students offered those not steeped in sustainable-living practices five simple things they can do — like unplugging home electronics at night and turning off the air conditioning when no one is home."

For hotels, eco-friendly ideas await a friendlier economy (New York Times): "Lacking the capital to sink into big expensive, retrofits, hotels are turning to small-scale conservation programs that will satisfy corporate buyers. As a bonus, many of these programs also reduce their energy and water bills. This includes practices such as training staff to switch off lights and televisions, encouraging guests to embrace less-frequent sheet and towel changes and installing lower-cost fixtures like water-conserving showerheads and compact fluorescent light bulbs."

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