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Often times, parents ask me how I clean children’s toys naturally. I thought I would share a few of my tips with you for soft, wooden, or plastic (ugh) toys. My methods are gentle for the earth and your family, as I don’t use harsh chemicals like bleach water, however, they may not kill viruses […]

I caught this tip on NPR this week and really loved it. By simply changing the margins on each document you print you can save a significant amount t of paper and therefore tress each year. Consider this:
“Each person in an office on average uses 2.5 pounds of paper each week. In the U.S., a […]

Editor’s note: This is not a sponsored post… really.Last February, I totaled our 2000 Toyota RAV4. Initially, I wanted to replace it with another RAV4. While I felt a bit guilty driving an SUV (which is not what one typically considers a green machine), we needed a 4-wheel drive vehicle with sufficient interior room. […]

Last January, I wrote a post about a family that had given up their car and stumbled upon the concept of “car sharing” – that is eschewing car ownership in favor of renting one when needed. This has a number of green advantages. Not owning a car reduces the urge to make 10 trips a […]

My six-year-old daughter has become quite observant to greening/green washing efforts around her. Her optimism is something to be cherished, when news of climate change, politics, etc. can be quite the opposite. She sees changes, and she tells me, “Mom, the world is getting greener.”
Out of the mouths of babes astute observations occur. […]

The 3Rs of environmentalism are Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. Recycle usually gets the most attention in the media but Reusing is my personal favorite. Why put all your energies into recycling your garbage when you can just create less garbage in the first place? Examples of reusing would be to reuse plastic bags from the […]

As I become more and more aware that my “eco footprint” is a bit large, I try to find more and more ways to act a little greener. As often happens, my latest idea came while taking out the garbage, a fine time to consider going green.
Since we ‘after-school”, that is, while my DS attends […]

In my green, liberal circle of friends, Wal-Mart bashing is a popular sport. As a marketer with many trips to Bentonville AK, Wal-Mart headquarters, under her belt, I often choose to listen in silence. I know they are accused of many things but, I also understand some of the realities of running the largest retailer […]

I am an avid reader and thus a big fan of books. I especially like books about “green” topics and sustainable living practices. I am always quick to scoop up health books too. I have had the opportunity lately to do quite a bit of reading and thought I would pass my recommendations to you.
Here […]

In our family, summer time is a full of birthday party celebrations. If your experiences are like mine, your children have attended some extravagant birthday parties that leave a heavy footprint on the Earth. Large blowup, bouncing jump rooms, corporate character disposable dinnerware, paper hats that don’t even last until the end of […]