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Put the meaning in the greening this Thanksgiving

Another fabulous guest post – this one is from my friends Lynn and Corey from Celebrate Green Making every celebration more about people and less about things is a key to celebrating green. When we focus on relationships, we tend to spend less, eat less, have less left over and end up putting less into [ READ MORE ]

Time to start thinking about the holidays

There’s no denying it. The holidays are upon us. Thanksgiving is next week. I’ll be doing some posts on the holidays in the upcoming weeks. I thought I’d do a roundup of my posts from the past two years that had ideas and information about making the holidays and all that go along with them [ READ MORE ]

Our Hobo Tuesday meal: Southern pulled pork and cole slaw sandwiches

Don’t forget about the book giveaway I’m hosting right now for Tar Sands. The book is about the dirty oil that is being shipped from Canada to the U.S. Now on to the post. It’s been a couple of months since I’ve participated in one of Thursday Night Smackdown‘s monthly challenges. So for those who [ READ MORE ]

10 ways to be more sustainable with your vegetable garden

Yes, I know a vegetable garden in and of itself is a pretty sustainable thing. Growing your own food instead of getting it from the store (usually in some sort of plastic bag or container) is great. But what are some extra steps you can take to be even more sustainable with your garden? Here [ READ MORE ]

Leftover Turkey? Try My Turkey Pot Pie Recipe

Good Morning! Is your fridge stuffed with leftover food from Thanksgiving like mine is? In the past, we would eat some of it, but usually about two weeks from now, I’d be throwing a bit of it away. This year, I’m determined not to let that happen. I’ve talked about food waste before. In the [ READ MORE ]

Green Term of the Week – Freegan

There’s a new, hip, term for someone who picks trash, and it’s not dumpster diver. That term is so last minute. This minute’s term is freegan. According to wikipedia a freegan is someone whose “lifestyle involves salvaging discarded, unspoiled food from supermarket dumpsters that have passed their display date but haven’t passed their edible date. [ READ MORE ]

Buy Ingredients and Save Money

Green Saves Green  Day 20 I’ve come to look at foods in basically two categories – ingredients and processed foods. These are my own categories, so please don’t take them as official. To me ingredients are ones you can eat as is or by simply cooking them. This would be fruits and vegetables, grains, pastas, [ READ MORE ]

10 Easy Ways to Be More Sustainable With Your Leftover Food

How are you all doing with your waste less food mini eco-challenge? The other night I took a bunch of vegetables in the fridge that would usually be destined for the garbage disposal (I REALLY need to start composting!), chopped them up, threw a little olive oil in the pan, went out back and picked [ READ MORE ]

September’s Mini Eco-Challenge

Happy September, Happy Labor Day, Happy Kids Go Back to School Week (if they haven’t already)! What a bittersweet day. The calendar may say that there are still three more weeks of summer, but around here summer ends today. It’s the last hurrah. We’ll spend the day at the pool with our friends and then [ READ MORE ]

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