Cooking at home is a great first step — maybe the best — toward going green. By making your own food, you'll pay attention to the ingredients you use, how they were grown and how nutritious and wholesome they are. Soon you'll be considering whether your food is organic, how locally it was grown, whether it's in season and the conditions of workers on the farms where it was grown.... The kind of things you rarely think about when salivating over a four-star menu, let alone swinging through a drive-through. Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com

Choose the Right Contractor, To choose which project to tackle first, it may help to try perform your own energy audit, or, if some of these improvements prove to be a little ambitious for you, hire an expert. But how do you get someone who shares your values? 

Replacing old incandescent light bulbs, It's not a get-rich quick scheme, but lighting represents a significant share of a home's energy bill, about 11% — $210 annually.