4 Tips for Maintain Healthy Household Plants

Having plants in the house is a great idea, both for decorating purposes, as the oxygen they breathe into a room. The following are a few tips for keeping your indoor plants healthy and vibrant.

1. Lighting: The amount and intensity of light that your plants receive is one of the biggest factors affecting their growth. But It is also possible that your plant is getting too much light, so here are some warning signs telling you to move your plant out of direct sunlight:

• Brown patches on the leaves making the plant look ‚Äúscorched‚Äù
• Leaves look faded or washed out
• Plant begins to wilt around mid-day
• Leaves become too dry and start to fall off.

2. Watering Your Plants: It’s hard to know exactly how much water your plant needs, especially when the amount changes depending on the species of plant, soil, light, temperature and the humidity in your home. Plants need more water if they have a lot of leaf surface and soft, lush foliage or if it’s their growing season. The only way to really know whether your plant it thirsty or not is to stick your finger into the soil up to your first knuckle. If the soil feels moist, the plant is fine. If the soil feels dry, it wants water.

3. Grooming Your Plant: When the flowers on your plant begin to wilt and die, you should remove them immediately for two reasons: the decaying material will attract insects and disease, and it will avoid the plant expending energy for making seeds. It is also good practice to wipe down leaves once in a while with a damp sponge to remove any accumulated dust, and remove any dead leaves or branches as you see them.

4. Raise the Humidity: If your plant looks droopy, burnt at the tips or has flowers that bloom half-heartedly and then die, it may need more humidity. Here are a few tips on how to give your plants the humidity they need:

• Spray them with a fine mister once a day.
• Place your plants on a tray filled with water and pebbles. The water will slowly evaporate and humidify the area immediately around it.
• Group all your plants together so that they all benefit from the moisture they are each emitting.

Read Original: agreenliving.org/How to Maintain Healthy Household Plants

Solar-Powered Compact Illuminates Inside and Out

Need to do a quick face check in a dimly light car or restaurant? Stila’s solar-powered compact features an illuminated mirror that makes touchups on the go a cinch. Made from recycled plastic, the energy-efficient palette comprises a mini-photovoltaic panel that charges up to 1,000 times for roughly five years of preening. Plus, it’s refillable, which means less packaging waste ends up moldering in the landfill.

Read Original: Ecoterre/ Stila's Solas-Powered compact illuminates inside and out.

Treehouse Tents a safe haven in the Treetops

Imagen (Inhabitat)

Tentsile is a portable habitation unit that can be suspended amidst trees to provide accommodation for three people. With three anchor points and the use of tension instead of poles, the Tentsile is part tent and part hammock. The structure is made from a collapsable frame of webbing straps with fire retardant, UV PU and water resistant polyester fabric infill panels. The three points serve as sleeping chambers and the middle is held in suspension and serves as a vestibule and gathering space. Access is gained via a rope ladder in the middle. It comes in a wide variety of colors and each tent is made by hand and there is also an option to hang the tent with a stand if no trees are available.

Read Original: Tentsile Treehouse Tents Provide a Safe Haven in the Treetops! | Inhabitat - Green Design Will Save the World

The 2012 Detroit Auto Show

World's smallest Solar Movie Theatre (solar Power)

The Sol Cinema is a micro movie house powered entirely by the Sun. We can accommodate 8 adults comfortably for a unique cinematic experience. We have a full library of comedy, SteamPunk, music videos and short films with inspiring environment themes.

Sol Cinema is an ideal solution for showing short videos within your community, festival, event or party. They are a non-profit project from the award winning arts charity, Undercurrents.

Red original and Photos from thesolcinema.org

Eco Wines

There are numerous factors to consider in selecting a fine wine—including whether or not it was produced in an environmentally-friendly manner and if it has been certified as such. The national organic farming certification rewards growing practices. The international biodynamic farming certification focuses on growing practices as well as the laws of nature’s spirituality. The regional sustainable certification encourages improvements in many areas, touching on the above as well as energy resources, waste-reduction, working conditions and community responsibility. And the FFF certification offers another angle on sustainability, this time addressing land management of the farm as a whole. All of these factors influence my wine choices.

Of the many reasons to choose one food or wine over another, flavor is certainly at the top of the list. But when you discover that your favorite winery also operates on solar power, fertilizes through companion planting, bars chemical insecticides and fungicides, and constructs its roads to assure the health of native wildlife, a new level of satisfaction comes into play. My food and drink choices are not based only on (rightly so) selfish pursuits of flavor, accessibility and body image. My choices—and they are choices—encompass ecology, community, sustainability and ethics as well. It’s good to know that one does not exclude the others, but rather enhances them. Indeed, in my estimation the best wines on Earth are those that are eco-consciously produced!

Read Original: ecohearth.com - The 'Fish Friendly Farming' Wine Cert

If My Plants Could Talk…

It's every plant's wish... and its owners too.
Hand made clay plant pot.
Designed and produced in Spain.
Plant not included.