Green Cottaging

Nominations due August 6, 2008

Cottage Life celebrates cottagers, cottage-lake residents, and cottager groups who are making efforts to conserve their natural environment or reduce their footprint on it.

Nominate yourself or another green cottager for our 2009 awards.

2008 Green Cottager Awards Recipients

How to choose a greener cleaner

The small print on soap packages and shampoo bottles can make a big difference to your lake’s water quality.

how to read the labels
cleaning without chemicals
how parts-per-billion can possibly matter.

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Go Green - greener products for cottage projects

Go Green is a new feature in Cottage Life magazine. Here is an exclusive web bonus giving you more information about how to make greener choices for your cottage building, renovation, and decoration projects.

Currently featuring: greener fabric choices