Regular readers of our blog may remember that I work as the energy manager for our municipality. Recently I was at a reception in honor of our municipality receiving an award for our Go Green program. and I had the opportunity to spend some time chatting with the wife of our Mayor. She asked me: What is […]
Green Your Vacation – Go Camping!
Posted on July 2, 2011 Written by 13 Comments
An active campfire should always have an adult in attendance. We have always enjoyed camping, long before being green was so important to us, we went on an annual camping trip with friends. In fact, some of my oldest friends date back to high school when I belonged to an Explorer Post that went camping […]
Getting Started – Use Reusable Shopping Bags
Posted on June 23, 2011 Written by 8 Comments
I often hear from people who want to get started going green, but there are so many things that you can do, that they are quickly overwhelmed. I always tell people that they should pick one thing, try it, and get used to it. Once the one thing they are doing becomes routine and natural, […]
Greening Your Camping – Getting Started
Posted on May 30, 2011 Written by 5 Comments
Camping is a low impact and low cost way to vacation either by yourself or with your friends and family. We find that it is a good way to spend several days of quality time with friends that is not horribly expensive. There are a lot of green websites that talk about how to go […]
B Kind 2 Earth Day
Posted on April 21, 2011 Written by Leave a Comment
What do you have planned for Earth Day? Will you be doing something special on Earth Day? or over the weekend? Do you celebrate Earth Day everyday? We’ll be going to the dentist for Earth Day! No, I’m not kidding… This year Earth Day seems to have really spread itself out. Officially, Earth Day is […]
Treading Lightly for Lent
Posted on March 13, 2011 Written by 2 Comments
Tread Lightly in Lent 2011Presbyterian Church Environmental Ministries Instead of giving something up for Lent, I have decided to take on the actions of the “Tread Lightly for Lent 2011” put together by the Presbyterian Church USA Environmental Ministries. Basically, this is a calendar for the 40 days of Lent on which each day has […]
GLC via email
Posted on March 2, 2011 Written by Leave a Comment
Would you like to know when there’s a new post on Green Lifestyle Consulting? Did you know you can receive email with our latest blog posts? We’ve configured it so that you will only receive email once a day whether there is one new post or multiple posts. If there are no new posts then […]
GreenTip: Latch Your Windows
Posted on September 18, 2010 Written by 5 Comments
Are your windows closed but the outside sounds are a little noisy? Does there still seem to maybe be a draft? Before running out to price new windows (and fall over in shock), check to see if the latch is shut. Those latches aren’t really there for security, they are there to insure that your […]
Getting Started with Bulk Purchasing of Dry Goods
Posted on February 2, 2010 Written by 2 Comments
I recently wrote an article on bulk purchasing that focused on buying things in larger quantities. Two of the comments pointed out the environmental and local economic benefits of buying dry goods in bulk, however, I had never done this! Somehow I had decided that that food in bins couldn’t be as clean, or as fresh […]
Energy Bucks Program
Posted on December 12, 2009 Written by Leave a Comment
Yesterday Jon heard a PSA for the Massachusetts Energy Bucks program and he suggested that it was probably something I should talk about in my seminar and blog about it. I laughed because it’s an important program that I make sure to plug in every presentation. Unfortunately it’s a Massachusetts-only program, but it’s a […]
