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.

Where do you start when you want to fill the apartment with stuff but be green about it? Garage sales are a good option to start out with, then move up to buying new, green products to fill in gaps.

Taking advantage of natural lighting can be a healthy, eco-friendly way to light your home without spending a fortune on electricity costs. What are design elements that we can incorporate into the modern home to maximize natural lighting?

Your consumer electronics are drawing power not only when in use, but in order to power those ubiquitous clock displays and provide memory backup, your electric bill continues to accumulate overnight as these devices enter standby mode. Learn more about how "vampire draw" works and how to reduce your electric bill.

One of the toughest times to find creative ways to go green is while you are renting an apartment or house. It's the period of life where you don't stay in one place for very long and live with several different people. A place that's not really yours to put up a rain-catching system, to put new and improved insulation in the walls, or even hang plants outside the balcony without permission from the landlord.

If you want an energy-efficient replacement for an old tank water heater or if you have limited space for a tank heater, like in a cabin or condo, then going tankless can be a great option. Tankless, or on demand water heaters operate on a simple principle: Heat water instantly and only when you need it. It's a great tool for conserving energy in your home.

Parties usually mean a lot of waste at the end and left over useless decorations. To make your party green it doesn't have to be drab, it can be eco-fab.

Car washing can be one of the most environmentally unfriendly activities you can do at your home. With the dirty water full of gasoline, oil exhaust residue and chemical laden detergents being disposed of in storm drains, the environment is directly affected by these toxins.

Over the last 4 years there has been a dramatic decline in the bee population throughout the United States, Europe and Japan. The die off, known as Colony Collapse Disorder, has killed about 30 percent of the hives in the United States over the past four winters.