Green Cottaging

 

Nominations due July 9, 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
 
soap bottles

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 withough chemicals
  • how parts-per-billion can possbily matter.

>> full article
 

 

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: high-performance windows
 

 

Cottage Life's Shore Primer and the Dock Primer
 

Download Cottage Life's guides for maintaining or rehabilitating your shoreline and dock areas.
 

 

Cottage Q&A
 

Taken from the pages of Cottage Life magazine, here are some of the best Cottage Q&A columns about green cottaging.

Can you underuse your septic?

Cornblasting to remove paint

Dishwashing - greener by hand or machine?

Disposal of hot tub water

Fertilizer-free flowers
 

 

Need an alternative energy source? Greener cleaning product? Septic system maintenance? A revamp of your shoreline?
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