Here’s a great video on vertical farming and why so many failed…

This technology might not be there yet but the idea is brilliant and beautiful as well! The Genius of a Hybrid Solar Tile + Heat Pump. Solar panels aren’t exactly pros at handling the sun. Sounds backward, but excess heat can be a big problem for solar panels. It drags down their efficiency and can […]

Greenhill Forge created an excellent water heater with a copper coil and a lot of creativity. Loved the ingenuity.  

Here’s a video I found online talking about Rocket Mass Heaters. I visited local homeowners previously who built a similar unit and will post later, but and will post but enjoy this video for now. Stefano Creatini What Would You Do If the Power Went Out? Have you ever wondered how you’d keep your family […]

I have been using Cold pressed Olive Oil for years now and avoid any seed oils. Here’s why Fed A Lie follows Paul Saladino MD, Nina Teicholz PhD, Chris Knobbe MD and Bethany Hamilton as they expose the truth about seed oils, also known as vegetable oils, and their correlation to the recent rise in […]

This is a big problem around the world. How do we grow enough food and make it affordable as well. Well big business has created varieties of vegetables that not only last longer they keep their shape when packed and shipped. The problem is that they have lost flavour as well as nutrients. They also […]

It’s me! Your ECO friend Terry… I rarely get in front of the camera, but I thought doing a video with my induction cookplate would be fun. It’s no secret that induction uses less energy than gas or straight electricity to a coil. In this video I explain induction and test a few methods of […]

A few years ago, I had a runny nose – all of the time! I also had lost my sense of smell. I went to a doctor, and she gave me a prescription for Flonase, a steroid that is sprayed into the nose and that mostly stopped the nose from running.  I came from a […]

I lost my mom to dementia a couple of years ago. Growing up, we ate what I now consider poorly. It wasn’t unusual to have Kraft Dinner, sweet cereals or other processed foods. She eventually got Diabetes, then Dementia. The really sad thing about her death was when she got sepsis, and they couldn’t operate […]

  We live on a park with a hill and there is an ugly 7 foot tall concrete wall between our house and our neighbours. Last year I got a bunch of pots and some flowers for the wall. This year the project got a lot bigger! Mark and I built this garden wall recently […]

  Although the majority of the renovation was fixing and replacing, we had decided to install an insulated, attached, front drive, 3 car garage. As we had already decided to heat the home and garage area with solar thermal we were able to put the flexible polyethylene (PEX) into the flooring of the garage. The […]

I was reading a post from Mother Earth News that said you can grow tomatoes from a slice. The post tells us that you can grow your tomato plants quicker and easier, following this easy-peasy tomato slice method.  Little Things demonstrates just how easy it is to take a tomato that’s past its prime, slice it […]

I am very aware of what products I buy from a grocery store and usually shop the edges where the fresh, not processed food is. I always, always read the labels as well. I recently came across this info graphic from Woodside Health & Tennis Club that does a pretty good job explaining the different labels […]