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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 ]

Declaring food independence

Over at MNN, we’re pushing a campaign spearheaded by Kitchen Garden International, the same organization that asked for the WHO Garden (White House Organic Garden – and it did happen!). The campaign is called Food Independence Day. What’s it all about? Basically they are asking all of us to declare food independence by making our [ READ MORE ]

Three secrets to eco-fun for Father’s Day

This month, Lynn and Corey from Celebrate Green have sent us some tips for Father’s Day which fall on June 21st this year. That’ s only three weeks away, so it’s time to start planning how you’re going to honor the dad(s) in your life this year. Lynn and Corey have some ideas that are [ READ MORE ]

Eco-friendly wines for your Memorial Day BBQ

I’ve put up quite a few wine reviews on Mother Nature Network in the past couple of months, and I thought that I’d do a roundup here for those of you who are going out to choose wine for your celebrations this weekend. I only review wines that I like – if I drank it [ READ MORE ]

A fair trade mother’s day basket

I don’t particularly like gift baskets when you order them from a company that puts them together for you. There’s always items in there that are useless or at least not to the recipient’s tastes. But I think putting together you’re own gift basket with useful and appreciated items is thoughtful and personal. Mother’s Day [ READ MORE ]

Simple, earth-friendly, meaningful crafts for Mother’s Day

Lynn and Corey from Celebrate Green have sent us some great crafts for mother’s day. Moms, I would advise you send a link of this post to your kids’ dad and with a note saying something like, “Hey, I think the kid would get a kick out of making a picture frame jewelry holder for [ READ MORE ]

Going Green for your graduate

Little Darryl is graduating from college next month. Only no one calls him “Little” Darryl anymore because he’s 22. Darryl lives next door (when he’s not on campus), and he was 11 when we bought our house. When we first moved in, he mowed the lawn for us until we got our own lawn mower [ READ MORE ]

e-cards vs paper cards

I got an e-mail yesterday. It was asking if I would promote an e-card website with a specific spin – since mother’s day is coming up, shouldn’t we honor Mother Earth and send our moms an e-card instead of a paper card. You know, save a tree. Here’s what I want to ask you. How [ READ MORE ]

I’ve lost a week

Running the book fair at my kids’ school has been a lot of fun this week, but I wasn’t able to be as on top of my writing as I thought I’d be able to be (I fancy myself Superwoman, you know, but in reality…).  I’ll be back to posting regularly next week. I’ve got [ READ MORE ]

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