How to Stop Eating Meat Once a Week—and Why You’d Want a top Race Car Driver...
If you think race car drivers aren’t green, think again. Leilani Munter Leilani Munter is one professional race-car driver who personifies champion performance at the track — and environmentalism....
View ArticleTake Public Transportation to Work — or Bike or Walk!
Thank you, Practically Green user Peggy Isham, for telling us about the Green Streets Initiative, which invites Boston-area groups to participate in a Car-Free Challenge on the last Friday of every...
View Article6 Reasons to Start a Garden at Work
If you’re in the mood for spring gardening we’ve got lots of ideas, from reacquainting with local farmers’ markets, signing up for a share in a CSA, pot up a few containers of herbs or veggies, or even...
View ArticleOrganic blueberries from Chile? Or apples from New York? YourMealMatters!
Faced with the choice of organic blueberries from Chile or apples from New York state, which do you choose? Food miles is one of many salient topics on the agenda at Tuesday’s #YourMealMatters online...
View ArticleMoving? Keep it Easy, Safe, Economical, and Green!
Planning a move — from your home, your office, your dorm room? There’s one way to do it, involving towers of cardboard boxes and pop-wrap galore that then go into the dumpster and who knows where from...
View ArticleEarth Week Special: NBC’s GreenIsUniversal Launches Celebrity (and...
How would you like a handy way to keep track of your healthy green actions? Here it is! NBC’s Green is Universal and Practically Green teamed up to build this spiffy “One Small Act” smart-phone app....
View ArticleWeekend Question
We’ve been following New York Times coverage of the climate debate in a series called “Temperature Rising,” by Justin Gillis. Gillis won the 2012 Oakes award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism...
View ArticleSee Results of Your Eco Actions— Yours and Your Group’s!
In the world of smart and efficient changes, one step leads to another, and another. You might decide to Recycle old batteries today, then Send your sweetie an eco-friendly gift, and next week you’ll...
View ArticleBiking: the low-cost, low-impact, healthy & fit way to get around!
It’s National Bike Month and here at Practically Green we’ve got a playlist of biking actions to choose from, such as: Bike to work one day a week Walk or bike to do your regular errands Bike to school...
View ArticleHealthy smart efficient living made easy, fun—and social— on Practically Green
Hooking people on healthy smart efficient living is what we do, and we’re always coming up with new ways to do it. CEO Susan Hunt Stevens explains four best practices in “Swag, cash or kudos,” a fresh...
View ArticleResilience and Optimism: Life in a Practically Green (not perfectly green) City
Fresh air, well-maintained bike, considerate vehicle operators, a network of contiguous and well-marked bike lanes: What’s not to love about biking to work on a mild summer day? If you live in a...
View ArticleTrack Group Impact on Practically Green
How would you like to have a fun, easy, smart and innovative way to see your group’s impact on energy efficiencies, water savings, CO2 emissions, waste — ALL that? Now you do! When you sign up at...
View ArticleLondon 2012: The Olympic Games, The Sustainable Games… Same Thing!
Summer is here. The Olympics are here. That means… It’s my favorite time again! The Summer Olympic games are the best kind; they’re exciting, entertaining, and best of all, they’re huge! The whole...
View Article5 Ways to Help Your Wallet Beat the Heat
Are you feeling the heat, both literally and figuratively? We know it’s the hottest summer on record. But there are definitely ways to take advantage of this hot summer weather and do the sustainable...
View ArticleStaycation 101: A Relaxing and Eco-Friendly Break!
As summer is coming to a close, it’s the perfect time to plan a quick relaxing vacation. As a Northeastern student currently doing an internship at Practically Green, I’ve learned about millions of...
View ArticleHow To: Rethinking Storm Preparedness
Photo credit: DVIDSHUB As we collectively dig out post Hurricane Sandy, we’re hearing a new term over and over: climate resilience. This basically means what you can do to prepare for big storms and...
View ArticleAdventures of our CEO: 2012 Practically Green Goal Check-In
There are four weeks to go in 2012 and it prompted me the other day to check on my Practically Green list of goals. How did I do? Where am I behind? In reviewing, a decent amount were checked off. But...
View ArticleNew Playlist: Practically Green Staff Resolutions
It’s that time of year when we reflect on the days past and look forward to a fresh start fired with resolve to make changes large or small for a happier, healthier–and more sustainable–New Year. So we...
View ArticleNew Playlist: Most Popular Actions of 2012
Analytics are an amazing thing. We were wondering what the most popular PG actions of 2012 were so we looked them up! It’s such a fantastic, inspirational bunch of actions that we decided to turn them...
View ArticleThings We Love: Biking Made Easy
If biking is one of your 2013 resolutions, you’ll be as thrilled as we were to learn about DoLiquid.com, one of many new bike sharing programs and sites currently flooding the market. We’ve heaped...
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