A blog that attempts to provide you with useful examples and tips that could make a large positive ecological impact, although they are seemingly minor, quick and easy changes to your daily routine.

Welcome to Ecotips for life

What is ecotipsforlife.com not?
Ecotipsforlife.com is not a save the planet type website. I believe that our planet will most likely save and balance itself out with or without our intervention and/or meddling.

I believe it is the human species that needs the saving for I am not sure the species will survive our planet's balancing act. I believe the entire species must find it's own balance, awareness and a way to co-exists with the planet in order to survive.

Ok, what is EcoTipsForLife.com then?
EcoTipsForLife.com is a simple blog with the intent to show you that you can make a large impact by making simple changes that could even save you time in your daily routine. Browse the site and see for yourself if there is anything you would like to do to contribute.

For more background feel free to click here to visit the About page

Good luck and happy contributing!

Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21

June 21st, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)
  • http://twitpic.com/7hhk1 – I was away for 2 weeks, when I came back there was some substantial growth to say the least… #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-06-21

June 21st, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)
  • http://twitpic.com/7hhk1 – I was away for 2 weeks, when I came back there was some substantial growth to say the least… #

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Tip #19: Composting on the (c)heap

June 18th, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)

Budget: around $30
Time required: 1-3 hours
Estimated impact: Rich fertile compost for your garden, porch or patio, can’t beat that…

Tip: For some time we have had a very small temporary compost bin made from an old 10 gallon trash can. As you can image this filled up within a very short period of time. Outside being small it also did not really provide a good environment to compost, so I found myself scouring sites looking at compost tumblers mainly because a compost pile would not work in our yard.

After seeing many types ranging from $150 to upwards opf $300 I decided to look for “diy compost tumbler” and “diy compost bin” and came across allot of posts of people making composters from cheap materials and two specific site caught my attention: http://www.instructables.com/id/Compost-Tumbler/ and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn_5HRgiftg. One is a composter made from an old barrel the other how to make a rain barrel from an old cheap trash can.

So I decided to combine them and create a compost tumbler from a cheap $13 trash can, some pvc piping and a wood frame to hold the compost tumbler. I’ll post the pictures of the result on Twitter.

It works great for our needs and it only costs about $30 to make. Also I found this site later on of someone doing the same thing only without a frame. He just mixes the compost by rolling the trash can over the yard.

So if you would like to start composting, I suggest you google things like “diy compost tumbler” and “diy compost bin” or checkout any of the links above and start your own compost project. Happy composting.

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-31

May 31st, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-24

May 24th, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)
  • http://twitpic.com/5rlsv – Honeydew melon, week 4 (may 23rd ‘09) – blocks indicate 1″ #
  • http://twitpic.com/5mfnh – Container for Honeydew melon, made from recycled, re-purposed and reused materials #
  • http://twitpic.com/5meab – Honeydew melon, week 4 (may 21st ‘09) – blocks indicate 1″ #
  • florida finally getting some needed rain, expect darker pictures… #
  • Looking for more eco-info? Checkout: globalstewards.org #
  • http://twitpic.com/5f9u4 – Honeydew melon, week 4 (may 17th ‘09) – blocks indicate 1″ #

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-17

May 17th, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)

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Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-05-10

May 10th, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)

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TwitPic on Twitter: The garden Part Deux

May 4th, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)

In Tip #18 I stated how much fun it is to have your own stuff growing.

To share the fun we’re having with growing our own stuff (however puny the resulting vegetables may turn out to be…) I’ll be posting pictures regularly of our own backyard/patio garden to the ecotipsforlife twitter page.

It’ll include pictures of stuff we have grown an harvest recently and photo’s of stuff we are currently growing or have just planted and following it along the way. This way we can share a little of the experience with you.

Check the twitter page regularly to view updated pics.

UPDATE: Also if anybody has any growing tips for central/southern florida, please feel free to send them.

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User suggestion: Website link

April 25th, 2009 AmyDunn

I wanted to submit this post- it is full of good eco tips:

http://organiceggwhites.blogspot.com/2009/04/eggology-shares-eco-deeds-you-can-start.html

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Earth day ‘09 – April 22nd

April 20th, 2009 Thomas (Ecotipsforlife.com Admin)

Budget: Up to you
Time required: Up to you
Estimated Impact: Up to you

Tip: Just a mention of the upcoming Earth day on April 22nd. For more info visit http://ww2.earthday.net or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Day

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