7 Unique Green Mother's Day Gifts
Whether you're looking for a traditional gift, or something more special, you'll find ideas here to please both Mom and Mother Earth.
View Article7 Ways to Control Lawn and Garden Pests - The Green Cheapskate Way
Gardening and landscaping or, as I call them, the "soil sports are among my favorite pastimes. Its a chance to enjoy being outdoors and exercise both my green thumb and my passion for creative...
View ArticleCute Green Bikinis
Made of organic cotton, recycled rayon and other sustainable fabrics, these green bikinis are as sustainable as they are sexy.
View ArticleRiver's Rebirth Gives New Life to Struggling City
When is a river not a river? When its buried beneath pavement. For 80 years that was the sad fate of the Saw Mill River in downtown Yonkers, a city on the Hudson River half an hour by train from...
View ArticleCheap Sleep: 8 Budget-Friendly Lodging Options for Travelers
Sleep the Cheapskate way, even if you won't follow him to bed down in bus stations, jail... or the morgue.
View Article5 Frugal Fall Gardening Tips
Sure, everybody's green thumb seems to blossom with the first warmish day of spring, just about the same day the green blades of the daffodils pop up in the flowerbed. But by autumn, most fair weather...
View ArticleThe Green Cheapskate's Guide to Buying Used Bikes
Although I bicycle all year long – even in the snow and ice of winter – the fall is my absolute favorite time to be out on the road on my rusty-but-trusty 10 speed. I’ve also noticed that fall is...
View ArticleCarving a Jack-o-Lantern this Weekend? Here's How to Cook the Pumpkin Goop!
[In his ongoing but sporadic series Don't Throw That Away!, the Green Cheapskate shows you how to repurpose just about anything, saving money and the environment in the process. Send him your...
View Article6 Ways Oatmeal Can Improve Your Skin
Try these simple recipes for good health and good skin from a surprising, if familiar, grain.
View ArticleTV and Film Tackle 'Fracking' Debate
What if I told you that we have a new source of fuel? begins New York Times technology reporter David Pogue in a recent CBS Morning News cover story. Its cheap, it burns cleaner than coal, its...
View ArticlePortlandia: Because We Can Laugh At Ourselves
IFCs must-watch hit comedy returns for third season.
View ArticleTV On the Front Lines of an Extinction Crisis
In Battleground: Rhino Wars, U.S. military men take on South Africas bloody rhino conflict.
View ArticleDocumentary Captures High-speed, Zero-Emissions Motorcycle Grand Prix
What do you hope viewers take away after seeing it? I hope people enjoy the movie as an entertaining and emotive story about a highly unusual group of characters who set out to do something...
View ArticleGlobal Treaty for Toxic Mercury Exempts Mascara
Few U.S. products are thought to contain mercury, but it's difficult to know because of labeling rules.
View ArticleEven in Tough Economic Times, Environmental Investments Pay Off
In New York, Gov. Cuomo is setting a good example.
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