Overview - Green Living Q&A

Welcome!

This Q&A blog is open for all to participate. Feel free to ask your own questions and answer questions posted by others. I know you all have a wealth of information and experience on healthy and eco-friendly living and you are welcome to share it here.

The purpose of this blog is to share information on "green living," which includes living in a healthy and nontoxic manner, as well as living in a way that is better for the environment.

Appropriate posts include questions about specific products or ingredients, where to find particular products, how to do or make something yourself, and any other aspect of living. You may also post anything on the subject you think would be of interest to readers, including data about health or environmental effects of products, products and websites you like and want to recommend, where to get good deals on purchasing green products, and the like. Please share your experience.

I personally will answer all the questions or invite other knowledgeable people to answer and I will review all the posts as they come in. I have created this blog so everyone can post and we can all learn from each other.

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This site is built on a "content management system" which gives three options for finding what you are looking for.

1. Use the search box in the upper right hand corner. The search engine searches the entire text for your word or phrase and will give you every instance of that word, regardless of context. So, for example, "cake" might give you chocolate cake or a cake of soap.

2. Tags, which are listed at the bottom of each post, are specifically assigned to posts on a particular subject. "Cookware" would be assigned to posts about cookware, but not where the word "cookware" is used in passing in a post on a different subject. When you click on a tag term, you'll get other posts with that same tag term.

3. Categories, which are in a menu in the left hand column, are broad subjects. So if you are looking for posts about food, for example, looking in the food category will give you posts about things to eat, whereas the search box would include results like "food for thought,"