Green Living Guide

Transcript Hi. My name’s Alegre Ramos and I am a sustainable living expert based in Los Angeles. I teach classes, I do consulting, and I do public speaking all about the topic of sustainable living, which means to me living your most creative, your most connected, most conscious community-oriented courageous life possible. And my goal …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living. A lot of people ask me for organic beauty products and I always have to pause for a moment there to explain to them that a lot of beauty products can’t be organic. A lot of the best non-toxic beauty products literally cannot have the label “organic” on them, …

Transcript Hi Alegre from Ember Living here today to talk about how to make your own laundry starch and why you’d want to to begin with. First of all, laundry starch is fantastic in terms of making your clothes look really crisp and professional and it also helps give body back to clothes that may …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living here today to talk about how to motivate your family to go green. The best step to ensure that you and your family make good choices in terms of green living and then sustain them is to choose things that you’re interested in. If you choose something just because …

Transcript Hi, I’m Alegre from Ember Living, here today to talk about to green your wardrobe. There are some sustainable clothing brands out there such as Threads for Thought or Linda Loudermilk . But those are few and far between. Really the best way to green your wardrobe is to buy used. And you can …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living here today to talk about how to incentivize carpooling at your place of work. First of all, if you work in an office, a great way to incentivize carpooling, if you are in the sort of leadership position where you can make this decision, is to offer some sort …

Transcript Hi, Alegra from Ember Living, here today to talk about how to green your commute. If you have to drive, consider carpooling. Sharing expenses with a friend will also lower your impact on the environment by reducing the amount of gasoline used and it will put money in your wallet. Also, consider driving 55, …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living here today to talk about green decor ideas for your party. The way I like to think about party decor is I like to think about how I can infuse every aspect of a party with the theme, and thereby I reduce waste by not putting up things like …

Transcript Hi. Alegre from Ember Living, here today to talk about how to green your party. As with all things eco, it’s much easier to have big bang for your buck if you start at the planning stage. So start planning your party with the mindset of how can I make this most eco-friendly as …

Transcript Hi. Alegre from Ember Living here today to talk about composting. This is a subject I could talk literally hours about, but a brief overview. There are essentially three types of composting: with worms, without worms, and then inside your house, anaerobic composting which is a little more complicated. I’ll get to that last. …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living here today talk about how to green your home improvements. As with all things, you can have the greatest impact on your home improvements if you start at the planning stage. Two websites that are great for when you’re doing your planning are the Energy Star website and the …

Transcript Allegra from Green and Greener, here today to take about native plants. The benefits of using native plants in your gardening is that they are better suited to the environment that you live in. So for instance, I live in the desert. The soil there is very nutrient poor, so the plants that tend …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living, here today to talk about how to reuse waste water in your home. Whenever we talk about green living we’re always talking about how to maximize your use of resources. And one great way is to use water as much as you can. Now, when water comes out of …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living. Here today to talk about how to green your water. The easiest way to green your water supply in your household is to get a whole house filter system. Those tend to be a little expensive. They start around $1,000, but they will filter out your water before it …

Transcript Hi Alegra from Ember Living, here today to talk about capturing rain waiter. Capturing rain water is a great way for you to reduce your use of water from your municipality. So, a lot of people don’t realize how much opportunity there is in capturing rain water. The calculation for how much water your …

Transcript Hi. Alegre from Ember Living, here today to talk about how to green your yard. Now whenever I talk about green living, I’m talking about conserving resources and using non-toxic products. So when it comes to conserving resources, the best place to start when it comes to green living is in the planning stage. …

Transcript Hi, Layla from Amber Living here today to talk about why planting a tree will green your home. First of all, trees are a great opportunity to provide shade for your house. And the old saying, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure,” if you can keep heat from getting into …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living here today to talk about how to green your roof. You know the expression “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure”? Well the same is true for your house. If you can prevent heat from coming into your house, it’s much cheaper to do that than …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living here today to talk about how to green your Halloween. One thing you can do is instead of offering traditional candy for gifts, you can give out little treats like pencils and stickers and erasers. This has become much more common in my neighborhood and don’t worry, your house …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living. I’m here today to talk about how to green your Christmas. Christmas has a lot of opportunities for incorporating sustainability into your everyday life. Let’s start with one of the most obvious examples, the Christmas tree. There are a lot of opportunities there for change. So, for instance, some …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living here today talk about how to green your business. As I mention when I talk about anything green living, I’m talking about using non-toxic products and sustainably using your resources. So in your place of work, I would encourage you to seek out non-toxic cleaning products and bath products …

Transcript Hi. Alegre from Ember Living, here today to talk about green living. What is green living exactly? It’s a philosophy. It’s a philosophy that encourages you to make choices that will optimize your health, the health of your community, and the health of the planet by avoiding toxic products, by choosing to use resources …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living here today to talk about how to green your laundry. As I talk about with a lot of green living topics, green living is about using non-toxic materials and using resources in a smart way. So when you’re buying your detergents or any sort of thing that you’re going …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living here today to talk about BPA. What is it, and how to avoid it. BPA is an ingredient found in a lot of hard plastics, and it is a highly-toxic ingredient. It’s also called Bisphenyol A, BPA is the short term for it, and it’s something you definitely want …

Transcript Hi. Allegra from Ember Living here today to answer a question that I get asked all the time: What plastics are safe? Now that question might confuse you if you’re not familiar with the rating system for plastic, but plastic is rated on a scale of one to seven, and you can find the …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living here today to talk about how to green your child’s lunch. As I mention with a lot of things about green living, it’s all about non-toxic and about using resources effectively. So your child’s lunch, there’s a great opportunity to use resources better if you use reusable lunch items. …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from EmberLiving, here today to talk about what can you recycle and how. A lot of people ask me this question: “Is this recyclable? Is this recyclable?” OK, well a basic tip about recycling is that the item needs to be able to be separated into a single material in order for …

Transcript Hi, Allegra from Ember Living, here today to talk about the three Rs. We’ve all heard them but you might not really know what they mean. Reduce, reuse, recycle are the three Rs and they’re actually in order for a reason. They’re hierarchical meaning reduce has the greatest impact on the planet and on …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living here today to talk about how can green living be easy and practical. The first thing I want to encourage you to do when you think about going green, is think about what’s most important to you. Don’t go green because I told you to or because someone else …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living here today to talk about the top green products every household should have. If you don’t know where to start when you want to start going green, start here. The first thing to do is green your cleaning products. I go into much greater detail about all these subjects …

Transcript Hi. Alegre from Ember Living here today to talk about the top ways to conserve water, energy, and gas. Whenever we talk about green living, we always talk about how to use resources in a really smart, efficient way. So one of the things that you can do that’s really easy and important is …

Transcript Hi, from Amber Ember Living. Here today to talk about light bulbs. There are three basic light bulbs that I’m going to talk about. Incandescence, CFLs and LEDs. So, the first bulb is the incandescent bulb. Also known as the Edison bulb, a technology that has been around for a really long time. They …

Transcript Hi. Allegra from Amber Living here today to talk about the exciting topic of greening your lighting and appliances and electronics. My first tip is to invest in something called a smart strip. Smart strips are fantastic because they’re kind of surge protectors except that they have 3 different types of outlets. They have …

Transcript Hi. Alegre from Ember Living, here today to talk about how to green your indoor air quality. Your first question might be why would I even want to green my indoor air quality. Well there’s actually something known as sick building syndrome, where people are exposed to so many toxins in an indoor air …

Transcript Hi. Alegra from Ember Living here today to talk about top green cleaning supplies. One of the my favorite cleaning agents is actually baking soda, which I always keep a huge canister of right next to my kitchen sink. This is fantastic for scrubbing out your sink from all that grime that gets built …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living talking today about how to make your own green cleaning supplies. Now, a lot of us have gotten used to just buying a bottle. You know, we say, oh we need to clean the carpet, okay, this is a carpet cleaner. But we don’t really understand what it is …

Transcript Hi, Lee from Ember Living. Many of you have asked, “Why should you use green cleaning supplies?” There’s a number of reasons you should use green cleaning supplies. A lot of the chemicals that are used in traditional cleaning supplies are irritating to your eyes and your skin, but most importantly to your lungs. …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living here today to talk about what pots and pans you should use if you want to be green. Well the first thing I want to point out is that when it comes to green living we want to avoid anything that is toxic. So I avoid any products that …

Transcript Hi. Alegra from Ember Living. Many of you have asked the question, ‘Are frozen foods green?’ Well, if you’re talking about frozen foods that are sold in the grocery store the bottom line is ‘No.’ It’s not eco-friendly. And whenever we talk about things that are eco-friendly, we talk about, one, is it the …

Transcript Hi. Alegre from Ember Living, here today to talk about how to green your diet, which is one of my favorite topics, because any time I’m talking about food, I’m super-happy. There’s a lot of tips here, because there’s a great Ayurvedic saying that loosely translated means, “Bad diet, medicine doesn’t help. Good diet, …

Transcript Hi. Alegre from Ember Living, here today to talk about how to green your kitchen. As with all things green living, we want to think about what’s non-toxic, and also how are we conserving our resources. So something that you might not have thought a lot about but is very important in green living …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living. A number of you have asked if you have to avoid dry cleaning in order to be green. And I would like to say yes. Personally, because I personally try and avoid dry cleaning. There are some new technologies that are less toxic both for you and for the …

Transcript Hi. Alegre from Ember Living, here today to talk about how to green your pregnancy. There’s probably no more important time to really think about things that affect you, because everything you’re doing at this point in your life will affect your child as well. So the first thing I want to recommend is …

Transcript Hi, Alegre from Ember Living here today to talk about how to green your birth. Pregnancy and birth are such a great opportunity to really keep your body clean, because everything that you put in and on your body will go into your baby. So if you haven’t considered doing a drug-free birth, you …

Transcript Hi. Alegre from Ember Living, her today to talk about how to green your baby. I could talk about this subject forever, and I talk about it a lot on my website. So go there for pamphlets and videos on how to green your baby in great detail. But just a few things. Green …

Transcript Hi. Alegra from Ember Living, talking today about alternatives to disposable diapers. There are really three alternatives, and when we say “disposable diapers,” we mean traditional, plastic diapers that are really hard on the planet and hard on resources, because they use a lot of resources to be made. The obvious alternative is cloth …

Transcript Hi Allegra from Ember Living to talk about how to green your bathing routine with all things green living it’s often about avoiding toxic products and using your resources in a smart way. So first of all let’s talk about non toxic products you should really use bath and body products that are good …

Transcript Hi, Allegra [SP] from Ember [SP] Living here today to talk about how to green your period. And I have to say that I’m so excited to talk about this topic because I’ve never covered it on my channel because I really thought it was TMI: too much information. But apparently, a lot of …

Transcript Hi. Allegra here from Amber Living talking today about how to green your beauty routine. Well, with all things green living, the bottom line is always what you need to do. So less is always more. So I always say beauty routines are supposed to be fun, right? I mean, some of us torture …

Transcript Hi I’m Alegre of EmberLiving. Today I’m going to talk about beauty ingredients that you want to avoid for many, many reasons. Some of them are toxic, some of them are non-renewables, some of them might irritate your skin. Let’s just start with carbons. You will see them in most common products as preservative, …