When thinking about how to make your home more green, one good way to find good opportunities and ideas is to look to your community. Many cities and neighborhoods work to create a green environment, and after all your community is an extension of your home.

Filling a kitchen with healthy food can be a challenge. To get the answer to a nagging question I enlisted four 20-something men, notoriously unhealthy eaters and bumbling in the kitchen, in a experiment. My cooking.

When you live in a big city, one of the last things you expect to hear is the distinct clucking of a chicken flock amongst the sounds of traffic and people. However, chickens can provide fresh eggs daily, and can even help with the maintenance of your flower or vegetable garden.

When global regulatory agencies fail to protect a vital resource, pop culture can step in and save what we hold precious. Bluefin tuna fisheries are collapsing due to consumer demand and lack of strict regulation. Despite the bleak outlook, pop culture may step in to enforce sustainability where governance has failed.

For the city dweller or adventurous gardener, cultivating mushroom logs can be a great alternative to growing fruits and vegetables in the home.

The U.S. is the third largest global consumer of fish and shellfish behind Japan and China. With seafood being such a popular food choice, overfishing has become a large problem over the last 20 years. Overfishing can be defined as fishing with a sufficiently high intensity to reduce the breeding stock levels to such an extent that they will no longer support a sufficient quantity of fish for sport or commercial harvest.

In the midst of all the attention organic vegetables and free-range meats have been garnering, it is easy to overlook the importance of our choice in seafood. Many species of fish and marine life are being threatened, yet are wildly available in many supermarkets still. Though we may not be aware, what we choose to consume can greatly impact the marine eco system in this supply and demand market.

Living a vegetarian lifestyle is healthy for you and the environment, but sometimes it's just not practical. A great way to get some of the environmental, health and economic benefits of a more plant-based diet is to be a part-time vegetarian.

Something everyone must be a consumer of is food, so make an informed choice about where you purchase your food. Farmers markets are an excellent choice because of their smaller impact on the environment.

If you aren't one of the lucky few who live in an apartment building that offers a food waste bin you might think that living in an apartment or condo would impede on your ability to compost food waste since you don't have a backyard, but this is not the case. There are options for reducing the amount of food waste going into the garbage for you too.

There are simple steps we can all take to ensure the safety of what ends up on our dining room tables. Instead of focusing on what is out of our control (which is most things), we can try to focus on what is within our control, by educating ourselves and our loved ones to ensure that the food we consume is free of GMO's, pesticides, irradiation, and hidden chemical processes.