Lawns & Gardens

Celebrate International Compost Awareness Week

While conceivable that this great, week-long holiday could be overshadowed by other events such as Mother’s Day, International Compost Awareness Week is SO worth celebrating. This week focuses on buil…

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Making Your Pool More Environmentally Friendly

By Carl Seville, Networx Pools, and other water features like fountains and ponds, are pretty seriously inefficient when it comes to both electrical workings and water, so the most efficient thing …

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8 Garden Projects for Kids

Involving children in fun gardening activities provides valuable opportunities to enjoy the spring and summer weather while helping to instill a love of nature in your little ones. The magic of wat…

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How to Grow Perfect Tomatoes

By Jordan Laio, Networx My friends, perfect tomatoes are not those red tasteless orbs for sale at your local national grocery chain store, however nice they look. The most perfect tomato is the on…

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12 Stunning Tree Houses

When I was little, I visited a friend whose dad built a tree house with a zipline that led directly to the family’s front door. It was the coolest thing I’ve ever seen—but nothing compared with these …

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5 Surprising Uses for Common Kitchen Items

While it may seem like there may be nothing to eat in the house, that doesn’t mean the contents of your kitchen pantry (or fridge) is totally without use. There exist a great number of little known us…

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Solar Power from Spinach?

Going green never tasted so good. Engineering students from Vanderbilt University have designed a type of solar panel using a protein from spinach, instead of costly silicon wafers. Photosystem I (PSI…

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Are Pesticides Making You Sick and Fat?

An apple a day might have kept the doctor away prior to the industrialization of food growing and preparation. Unless it’s a pesticide-free apple, not only is today’s apple not sufficient to keep the…

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Sustainable Food: 10 Reasons to Care

Food is tied to almost everything. It can be the perfect point of convergence for thinking about sustainability—because it literally sustains life. Without nourishment, we don’t exist. Here are 10 rea…

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7 Things Your Garden Needs from You

By Erica Glasener, Networx If your garden could tell you what it needs, these are 7 things it would request. 1. Realistic expectations: Designing your garden to provide year around interest or p…

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